News and Notices

ELLSWORTH, ME — Grammy Award-winning composer and musician Paul Sullivan will direct the new Downeast Kids Chorus under the auspices of The Grand. Rehearsals begin Oct. 18 and are open to all children ages 8 to 14. Funded in part the first year by the Quimby Family Foundation, the newly established chorus forms part of the […]

BESTWOOD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, UK — HAVING earned the royal seal of approval for their performance at Vernon Park in Basford during the Queen’s visit to Nottingham to mark her Diamond Jubilee, Bestwood Male Voice Choir are hoping to repeat the dose during a concert to mark their own 60th anniversary. Months of rehearsals at Bestwood Village Social […]

By Grant LaFleche   NIAGARA, ON — Julia Haluska wants you to listen to her. Listen to the sound of her voice. The way she phrases notes. How her voice helps build a complete piece of music.  She wants you to see past the two words that society often labels her with — development disability — […]

Sing with us. A new rehearsal season begins now. Come join us in preparation for the Sussex County Oratorio Society’s January concert in Newton, NJ. Rehearsals are held at Christ Episcopal Church, 62 Main Street, Newton, every Monday evening at 7:45 pm. Come early (7:15) for voice placements on September 10th, 17th and 24th. The […]

By Maggie Barry   Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, UK — THERE was scarcely a dry eye in the house as the last notes from the Military Wives choir soared and faded above the packed audience in London’s Royal Albert Hall. Joanne McMurdo, whose husband was serving in Afghanistan, watched with a lump in her throat.  Then she came up […]

By Olu Alemoru BLOOMINGTON, IN — Indiana University’s African-American Arts Institute has appointed gospel performer and composer Raymond Wise as director of the African-American Choral Ensemble. Wise, whose career spans more than 30 years, will serve a two-year stint as a visiting faculty member in African-American and African Diaspora Studies in the College of Arts […]