Atlanta Sacred Chorale has published a sneak preview of their 2012-2013 concert season! Highlights of the 2011-2012 Concert Series: 3rd annual Season Premiere concert on October 13, 2012, entitled “It’s About Time” Scheduling of TWO performances of Christmas program: an evening concert on December 15, 2012, plus a matinee on December 16, 2012! Special Guest Artist for the […]
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What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, June 24, 2012
Music from the Mexican and Bolivian Baroque this week. Scholars are just beginning to analyze and publish the music from the cathedral libraries all over Latin America. It seems that the Spaniards imported entire episcopal and arch-episcopal staffs including composers and performers after they seized control of Central and South America. They built grand cathedrals […]
Singer returns after 2nd lung transplant
By Aaron Kinney SAN JOSE, CA — No one wants to have her lungs cut out of her chest, but for a budding opera singer, the surgery provokes an added layer of dread. "I had spent my whole life training my lungs," Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick told a rapt audience of health care advocates this week […]
New ensemble gives Bach to audiences
By Rhema Zlaten FORT COLLINS, CO — The ensemble was launched by Dr. James Kim, the director of choral studies at Colorado State University, to create a platform for Colorado’s professional musicians to express the challenging masterpieces of Bach and other composers. When Kim hosted a conference for choral directors last fall at CSU, several […]
Volunteer devotes 52 years to service
By Rimsie McConiga LEAVENWORTH, KS — How long have you been volunteering for this program and what have been your greatest accomplishments in leading the choirs over the years? In 1960, we formed a children’s choir. My husband’s mother was the organist for the 8 a.m. Mass and around 1970 she became ill and couldn’t […]
Choir helps those in need – facing cancer
By Susan Lee LIVERPOOL, UK — THE inspiring Military Wives choir, gathered together to lift spirits while their loved ones were serving in Afghanistan, have become national treasures. Now meet another group of feisty women who are also using singing to boost their confidence – as they face the reality of cancer. EVOCALISE comprises a […]