LONDON, UK — SWINDON’S Wessex Male Choir put the town on the map after singing in front of a 79,000-strong crowd at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Along with Huntingdon Male Voice Choir, they entertained the crowd before kick-off at the Carnegie Rugby League Final between Leeds and Warrington. The choirs, which totalled 80 choristers, first sang […]
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Lutheran Youth Choir of North America Completes Inaugural Festival of Global Vocal Music
The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America, founded in 2005 and directed by Philip Spencer, successfully held its first biennial Festival of Global Vocal Music in the Chicago area in August. This nine-day festival for high-school-age singers included 23 students from across the United States and 19 students from Germany who were invited to come to […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, August 26, 2012
If you have never heard Darius Milhaud’s Sabbath Morning Service, you are in for a treat. It was commissioned in 1948 by Temple Emanuel, San Francisco. In addition to the Milhaud, Hour 1 features some plainsong sung for us by Anonymous 4, one of the Chandos Anthems by Handel and English composer John Tavener’s serene […]
Gareth Malone gets Britain’s workplaces singing
By Anita Singh LONDON, UK — Gareth Malone is returning to television with a new series encouraging the nation to set up workplace choirs. Sing While You Work is Malone’s first project since The Choir: Military Wives and begins on BBC Two this autumn. He has assembled groups of amateur singers in various workplaces, including a Royal Mail […]
Vocal teacher donates choral library
TERRACE, BC — HE REGION has been given a wonderful gift of a choral library housed here in Terrace. Katherine vanKampen, who is running a summer music theatre camp here this week, donated her choral library, which fills a filing cabinet plus three more drawers of hanging files after seeing a need for it here. “The […]
Q & A: Norman Scribner
By Patrick McCoy WASHINGTON, DC — What was your initial inspiration behind programming the Annual Holiday Gala concerts? Norman Scribner: People think of singing at Christmastime because of the carols. How many people do you know who maybe won’t get to a classical music concert, but they’ll sing Christmas carols at Christmastime? It helps us with […]