News and Notices

By Ross Amico   PRINCETON — After 33 years, Frances Fowler Slade is stepping down as artistic director of Princeton Pro Musica. However, it is not without mixed emotions.  “I announced that I wanted to step down this spring 18 months ago,” she says, “and it seemed like it was so far in the future. And […]

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By Dana Corbit Nussio   NOVI, MI — A group of teenagers, several dressed in “Legally Blonde” T-shirts, formed a circle in a classroom corner. While minutes before they'd arrived in class, bringing jokes from lunch and worries about unfinished stage sets along with them, now the busyness was forgotten as the Novi Singers joined together, […]

By Patt Rall   BEMIDJI, MN — Conductor Patricia (Pat) Mason of the Bemidji Chorale kept the program notes for the 33rd annual Mother’s Day Concert a secret but, as it turned out, the tables were turned with a surprise for her and the singers. During the first half of Sunday’s concert, Chris Fettig, director of […]

By David Stabler   PORTLAND, OR — ight voices rise softly to sing. “As we travel down this weary road, we need strength to carry on our load.”  The sound is gentle. The walls don’t shake. The windows don’t rattle. You would not mistake these elderly singers for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but they don’t whisper, […]

LOUISVILLE, KY — The University of Louisville Cardinal Singers will perform at the first U.S./Cuba Summit on Choral Music in Havana, Cuba, representing the American Choral Directors Association at the May 26-31 event.  The summit will be a cross-cultural exchange of U.S. and Cuban composers, directors and students  that is intended to showcase the distinct choral music […]