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“It’s Auschwitz to Iowa, all in one day,” says Judith Douglas. “And people who come to performances have been known to ask me afterwards what I do with the rest of my time!” Douglas, a mezzo-soprano, has been in the ENO Chorus since 1983, which means that she has sung music ranging from Handel to […]

2012 is finally here! And the year has already gotten off to a tremendous start. From outstanding national media recognition to exciting event planning progress and new sponsorship announcements that you will read about below, we're on the road to producing the most successful World Choir Games ever.       Our marketing efforts are in full […]

By Andrea Nemetz   HALIFAX, NS — FOR ROSELLA FRASER, growing up in North Preston meant singing. “Most of us in the Preston area grew up singing as part of our culture,” says the co-president of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir. “It was an essential way of getting through life, of practising our faith. We sang […]

By Suzanne Ulbrich   GEORGETOWN, NC — Getting into the Georgetown High School Glee Club was a big deal when Calvinette Sheperd attended the school in the 1960s. Now, through her participation in the newly formed Georgetown High School Alumni Choir, she is able to relive her Glee Club memories with friends from way back when. […]

A weekly feature of Great Sacred Music is the Bach cantata which airs at approximately 9 a.m. eastern time. My aim is to program every cantata the master wrote. Most of the time the cantata which I have programmed is the one Bach wrote for that particular Sunday in the church year.   Great Sacred […]

By Matt Schudel   AMSTERDAM — Gustav Leonhardt, a Dutch harpsichordist and conductor who was a major figure in the postwar “early music” movement, which sought to give historically authentic performances of music from the Baroque era, died Jan. 16 at his home in Amsterdam. He was 83. His death was first reported by the Dutch […]