News and Notices

By Rae Yost FOREST CITY, IA — A man stood outside Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City on Saturday afternoon and asked if someone wanted to hear his Waldorf College choir story.  He grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church near Bricelyn, Minn. before he attended Waldorf in 1961. Back then, the student lunch room was […]

By Don Branum COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The Academy’s music director is almost as much of a fixture here as the organ in the Cadet Chapel’s Protestant worship area that he plays every Sunday morning. He has played the organ, which turned 50 years old this month, at weddings, funerals and worship services. He’s instructed Cadet […]

By Karlene Ponti WALLA WALLA, WA — Photos of smiling students and stacks of choir sheet music cram Norb Rossi’s tiny office at Walla Walla High School while music and singing from an adjacent classroom drift in. It’s pretty much what one would expect to see and hear in the school’s longtime, popular and very successful […]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The Wake Forest University Gospel Choir was a home away from home for a lot of students and a church away from the home church.  Both past and current choir members lifted joyful songs to God on Sunday as they celebrated their first reunion Sunday. The reunion was the first of what […]

By Steve Marinucci LIVERPOOL, UK — A choir estimated of at least 1,200 members is to be added to the Guinness world record-breaking attempt Friday in the Beatles‘ hometown of Liverpool to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the debut of the group’s first single “Love Me Do,” the city announced today. Fans, schools, the choir members and tourists will come together on […]

Aloha!   I direct the Kona Music Society in Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i.  Most people have heard of Kona coffee and I thought it might be fun to program a concert with the theme of “coffee.”    I am thinking of programming Bach’s “Coffee Cantata”, but am looking for more choral-type works with the theme of coffee. […]