RSVP announces Forgotten Peoples — a concert series benefiting Courage Worldwide, a nonprofit organization that works to build Courage Houses, or safe homes, for girls rescued from human trafficking. Three concerts, Nov. 3 and Nov. 9 and 10, present a mix of stunning and powerful new works by American composer Michael Gandolfi, Estonian composer […]
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Los Angeles Master Chorale Receives $1M Gift
By Lisa Fung LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Master Chorale has received a $1 million gift from Los Angeles attorneys Kiki and David Gindler. In recognition of the donation, the Chorale is naming the music directorship The Kiki & David Gindler Music Director. Their donation also launches the Chorale’s “Music Director’s Circle” for donors of $50,000 or […]
Il Coro Italiano going silent after 50 years
By Kristie Pearce WINDSOR, ON — Behind them in homemade frames hang photos of some their most cherished memories as a choir. “We drank a lot of wine on this trip,” Paula Savio, 69, said as he pointed to a photo of 20 or so Italian men dressed in uniform and posing on a hill looking down on the […]
BBC Radio 3 to broadcast choral evensong from Bath Abbey
BATH, UK — Bath’s famous abbey has been chosen as the setting for a national broadcast on the radio – less than a month after its hallowed arches hosted a first radio programme. Back in September, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the morning service from Bath Abbey, with more than a million listeners tuning in. And now tomorrow, […]
Profile: London Community Gospel Choir
By Marcia Dixon LONDON, UK — WHO WOULD have thought that when the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) was formed amidst controversy in 1982, it would still be in existence spreading a gospel message through music thirty years later? Co-founded by Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and Bazil Meade, LCGC was Britain’s first black community gospel choir […]
Choir inspires charity fund-raising campaign
GORING, UK — A CAMPAIGN inspired by the fund-raising success of Goring Chamber Choir will be launched this Christmas. Sing for Sue comes after the choir raised £1,000 for Sue Ryder hospice in Nettlebed from singing events last December. The choir decided to support the charity after one of its members, Bob Fay, was cared for […]