News and Notices

By Laura Crosio   CLAYTON, NC — School districts statewide are feeling the after-effects of budget cuts and two local high school choral departments are employing creative measures to raise funds to promote the arts among students. Corinth Holders High School has had to start from scratch to generate their vocal music program. Opened since 2010, […]

By Pia Catton   NEW YORK — In the last year, conductor Kent Tritle has moved from the concert series “Sacred Music in a Sacred Space” to another called “Great Music in a Great Space.” A step down? Not exactly. From 1989 to 2011, Mr. Tritle led the choir and orchestra at St. Ignatius Loyola, the […]

By Jenny Wagner   BEAVER FALLS, PA — Surrounded by students past and present, Robert Copeland took his final bow Saturday night as the longtime conductor of The Genevans. “Dr. Bob,” as he is affectionately called by students and singers, is retiring after 31 years as a music professor and leader of the renowned student choir […]

By Daniel J. Kushner   BROOKLYN, NY — For young musicians who are called on to perform the works of contemporary composers, utilizing “extended techniques” that one might readily encounter in 20th century compositions is not unusual. Being asked to interpret music inspired by an early 19th-century American style of shape note singing called Sacred Harp […]

By Libby Motika   PALISADES, CA — One of the most exciting events in a composer’s life is to hear his or her opus performed for the first time. Music at St. Matthew’s Director Tom Neenan got the jump on Ola Gjielo while rehearsing the composer’s commissioned work, ‘O Solitude,’ for its world premiere tomorrow […]

By Clara Beard   ASH FORK, AZ —  Through musical notes and scales, Ash Fork local Kathleen Petty fills the silence left by state education budget cuts.   “Everyone has sports out here, but they don’t have music,” Petty said. “Sports you can do so long, but music you can play enjoy for the rest […]