News and Notices

By Brian Kaufman WINCHESTER, VA A local choir director is a semi-finalist for a National Composition Award. Ryan Keebaugh, Director of Choral Activities for Clarke County, was chosen as one of 40 semi-finalists from across the nation for the American Prize in Choral Composition.  About 8,000 people applied for the prize.  This is the first […]

By Andrew S. Hughes   SOUTH BEND, IN — Soon after Jorge Muñiz moved to South Bend, he and Wishart Bell developed the sort of friendship that involves meeting for coffee several times a year.At one of those coffee get-togethers last year, Bell mentioned that Musical Arts Indiana, the choral and orchestra organization he founded in […]

By Tiffany Self   ELMHURST, IL — For 15 years, Joan Boutilier took the Sweet Adelines International (SAI) Choral-Aires Chorus to new heights; consistently winning regional competitions and ranking highly at international competitions. In January, her reign as the Choral-Aires director came to an end as she stepped down from the Chorus. In a bittersweet good-bye, […]

Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org with your host Rob Kennedy ——————————————————   08:00:28 J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude on “O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross”, BWV 622 Friedrich Froschle, organ The Great Organ of the Ulm Cathedral 08:09:54 Luca Marenzio: […]

Dear Fellow Listers: For those of you who are composers, or at least know of a composer who might be interested, I heard a local poet read his poem “The Mouse’s Christmas” – a take off on “The Night Before Christmas”. It’s a terrific poem, and if you’d like me to put you in touch […]

Middlesbrough, UK —  In the 1830s a group of Welshman moved to Middlesbrough to work as ironmakers when the industry was expanding.   When two of the workers were killed in an accident at work, the group of Welshmen performed a concert for the widows and orphans of those killed to raise money for them. […]