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PROJECT : ENCORE™ of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, a bridge between conductors and new, post-premiere choral compositions and their composers, is proud to announce this quarter’s acceptance of–   KEANE SOUTHARD ‘A Day of Sunshine’   BEN JISOO KIM ‘A Christmas Carol’   EDUARDO ANDRÉS MALACHEVSKY ‘do not pass by like a dream’   GREG […]

The Mansfield University Concert Choir returned Monday evening victorious from the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Ohio!   They won three Gold Medals, the only American choir to achieve this record thus far in the 2012 Games.   On Friday, they were awarded a Gold Medal in the Folklore category, placing fourth among 25 choirs and […]

By Harold Reutter   GRAND ISLAND, NE — “An army marches on its stomach.”  If that observation by Napoleon Bonaparte is true, it would seem that anyone watching the members of Senior High’s Ultimate Image would believe that it is equally true that a show choir sings and dances on its stomach. Students in Ultimate […]

By Sarah Bryan Miller   ST LOUIS, MO — From what I’ve read of it, E.L. James’s massively popular mommy-porn “Fifty Shades of Grey” runs in the same ugly vein as the “Twilight” series: Woman as the passive, masochistic victim of a cruel, sadistic creep. (Indeed, it started life as a bit of “Twilight” fanfic.) But […]

By Janelle Gelfand   CINCINNATI — Shira Knopp’s choir, the Ankor Choir of Israel, has sung for American presidents, popes and international heads of state. But nothing has been more exciting for the 14-year-old Jerusalem resident than discovering she has a cousin in Cincinnati.  Two cousins who live worlds apart – Shira and Austin Merlin-Stetson, 17, […]

EDINBURGH — A group of Scottish youngsters have made a music video which will feature in the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.  The eight to 21-year-olds from Edinburgh’s Broomhouse Estate are representing Scotland in the broadcast.  They were recorded singing Flower of Scotland on the Ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. The video for the song will be […]