By Jessica Ellis DURBAN, S AFRICA — With their soulful voices and traditional Zulu dance moves, South African acappella singing sensation Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been blending vocal harmonies to take audiences on a musical journey for nearly half a century. The legendary male choral group has sold millions of albums worldwide, collaborated […]
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Carnaval In Uruguay: Choir Competitions In The Streets
By Martina Castro MONTEVIDEO, UR — Uruguay boasts that it has the longest Carnival celebration not just in Latin America, but the world. The 40-day celebration is dotted with makeshift stages all around the capital city of Montevideo for performances of choral music called murga. Murga is both entertainment and a sociopolitical commentary that survived the […]
Dr. Paul Nesheim Named Director of The Augustana Choir
Augustana College today announced that Dr. Paul Nesheim has been named associate professor of music and director ofThe Augustana Choir, the fifth in the Choir’s 90-year history. He succeeds Dr. James Johnson, who was named principal conductor of Choral and Instrumental Ensembles for First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls in summer 2011. For the 2011-12 academic […]
A choir for the community in Notting Hill
By Emma Heseltine LONDON, UK — When you think of a choir, most people would think of hymns being sung inside a church every Sunday. But at West London Community Choir, things are a little different. They may rehearse in a church, but that has no reflection on how and what they perform, as Emma […]
Vietnam International Choir Competition 2012
Imperial city of Huế is waiting for choirs From December 12 to 16, 2012 the Vietnamese city of Huế welcomes many choirs from the home country and abroad for the 2nd Vietnam International Choir Competition 2012. Following last year’s event in Hoi An it’s the second choir competition of this kind in Vietnam’s history. Huế […]
Profile: I Fagiolini’s Robert Hollingworth
by Melissa Lesnie PERTH, AUS – I’m dying to ask Robert Hollingworth what it’s like to conduct Spem in Alium. Golden strands of vocal polyphony in no less than 40 parts weave their way through Thomas Tallis’s sublime masterpiece of the English Renaissance, which will be performed by Hollingworth and his British group I Fagiolini at the […]