ATLANTA — The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has announced the creation of The Florence Kopleff Choral Administrator Chair in perpetuity as a tribute to American Contralto Florence Kopleff who died on July 24, 2012. The impact of Miss Kopleff — once called the “greatest living alto” by Time magazine — on American music and the Atlanta Symphony will be felt […]
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Comfort Care Through Song
By Dick Frantzreb SACRAMENTO — Here’s more evidence that there are angels among us. The Threshold Choir is a nationwide network of choirs, almost exclusively of women, whose purpose is to “bring ease and comfort to those at the thresholds of living and dying.” At the heart of their work is singing at bedsides, in […]
UK children join global choir to make Olympic song
By Natalie O’Neill LONDON — A choir from Potters Bar sang in harmony with schoolchildren across the world to create an Olympic record. Capital Arts Children’s Choir in Darkes Lane recorded their part of Gloria in Londinium at Abbey Road Studios, to mark the 2012 London Games. The song, which is sung by hundreds of […]
New Houston Community Children’s Choir in the Heights
Zion Lutheran Church announces its newest outreach program, the Heights Community Children’s Choir, open to all children in grades 2 through 5, and intended to serve 6 Heights area elementary schools. The children will rehearse Thursdays after school from 4:00-5:30 and will then be offered enrichment activities such as art, movement, piano, and tutoring on […]
Ottawa Choral Society picks new musical directors
By Peter Robb OTTAWA — The Ottawa Choral Society has a new artistic director. Montreal-based Jordan de Souza was recently selected after a lengthy search to replace Matthew Larkin. In addition, Kevin Reeves, a composer, filmmaker and the founding director of the innovative Ottawa chorus Seventeen Voyces, has been named chorus master for the society. […]
Salute for retiring boys choir director
By Alma Gaul MOLINE, IA — More than 200 people, young and old, crowded into a banquet room Sunday at the Quad-City Botanical Center in Rock Island to say formal goodbyes to Kermit Wells, who is retiring after 40 years as director of the Moline Boys Choir. Wells, 76, took over on a “temporary” basis […]