By Steven Rosen CINCINNATI — When you’re bringing a children’s choir from Novosibirsk, Siberia, to Cincinnati to participate in the World Choir Games, the logistics are going to be difficult, no matter what. But it gets harder when you also have to figure out how to get visas and pay for the trip. Novosibirsk is […]
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INTERKULTUR Announces Permanent U.S. Based Operation
Today at 5 pm Guenter Titsch, President of INTERKULTUR and the World Choir Games, officially announced the establishment of a permanent office in the U.S., located in the Village of Mariemont in Cincinnati Ohio. INTERKULTUR Americas will support the development of new events in the USA, market and promote all INTERKULTUR events in North America, […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, July 15, 2012
Music for Bastille Day this Sunday on Great Sacred Music. Bonne fete! Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday morning from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. eastern. and can be heard on 89.7 fm locally or online anywhere at http://theclassicalstation.org We’re also on TuneIn Radio and on the Public Radio Player ——————————————————- 08:00:00 Loyset […]
Bach Festival co-founder is approaching the end of his long run
By Bob Keefer EUGENE, OR — As he prepared last week for Sunday’s upcoming performance of the St. Matthew Passion, Helmuth Rilling grilled his conducting students behind the scenes at the Oregon Bach Festival, making sure that they were tuned into even the tiniest details in the sprawling choral work by Johann Sebastian Bach. As […]
1000’s of Choral Singers take to the Street in Denver
The 9th quadrennial Festival of Gay and Lesbian Choruses concluded Wednesday night in Denver as the majority of 6000+ delegates poured from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts singing together in 4-part harmony as they walked en masse to the closing party blocks away. The imagery of singing for social justice while moving out of the […]
Quebec singer to take GM reins of Chamber Choir
By David Gordon Duke VANCOUVER, BC — Change is in the air in Vancouver’s choral community. The most recent development is the appointment of Steven Bélanger as general manager of the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Bélanger’s background as a singer and arts administrator includes positions with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Canadian Chamber Choir and […]