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BRISTOL, UK — Sam Burns is an interesting character. Once upon a time, he was riding high on the Bristol gigging scene as the keyboard player with infamous grunge outfit The Moonflowers – the indie band that let it all hang out by playing in the nude at the Ashton Court Festival. Today, I find the […]

By Roxann Miller   MARTINSBURG, W.Va.—  Angela Pittinger has been practicing her routine since last month, but dealing with strained vocal chords and blistered feet would be worth the sacrifice if her school walked away with a trophy at this weekend’s Martinsburg High School Concert and Show Choir Festival. Pittinger, the dance captain at Washington […]

If you direct a junior high or high school choir, introduce your students to the fast-rising world of a cappella music.  Tunes To Teens is a program of the nonprofit Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) that sends a cappella CDs (for free!) to junior high and high school choruses across the US and around the […]

The College Music Tour Manager’s Association (cmtma.org), an organization of 30 colleges and universities across the U.S. with music ensemble touring programs, has been a valued resource for college music tour planners for over 25 years.   CMTMA brings together directors and administrators to share and learn from past touring experiences of colleagues in the […]

By David Siegel ANNANDALE, VA — As hundreds of children poured in with parents in tow, an electric, boisterous, hubbub filled the foyer of the Annandale United Methodist Church. It was the weekly rehearsals for the youth choruses of the Fairfax Choral Society. There was an energetic air throughout as delightful in-pitch voices and well-played pianos […]

BATH, UK — One of the most remarkable musical stories of the 21st century was the rediscovery in a Paris library of a fantastic 40 and 60 part mass written in the 16th century by the Italian composer Alessandro Striggio. Like the better known and later motet by Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium, which is also […]