News and Notices

The Fourth Sunday of Advent traditionally focuses on Mary and the visitation of the Angel Gabriel to her.  Join Peter DuBois on the next edition of With Heart and Voice to hear wonderful sacred choral and organ music to mark this pivotal moment in the preparation leading up to the celebration of Christmas.  Music by Edgar […]

RomeReports.com has reported that Pope Benedict has plans to canonize Hildegard von Bingen a to make her a Doctor of the Church. Hildegard is the earliest known (i.e. named) composer of sacred music in the Roman Catholic tradition and therefore in the Western music tradition, and is the first name you will hear in a music history class. She […]

Branding the San Francisco Girls Chorus By Mark MacNamara   Last July, after the board of the San Francisco Girls Chorus announced that the contract of the artistic director, Susan McMane, would not be renewed, a great brouhaha arose. Many of the girls wept. Parents threw up their hands. An online petition asking that the […]

Wishing all of our singing friends and colleagues the warmest Holiday Season, Merriest of Christmases, and a Happy and song-filled New Year!   (the link above will take you to YouTube.)   Chor Leoni Men’s Choir Diane Loomer, C.M., Artistic Director  

By Kristie Rearick   MANTUA, NJ — The saying goes, “Like father, like son.” But that’s not the case for Bob and Adam Law. For this pair from Mantua, it was the son who inspired his father to sing. “It’s usually the other way around,” said Bob, who serves as the chief financial officer for the […]

By Molly Cormier   FREDERICTON, NB — The conductor’s hands fly as the choir members watch intently.   Each hand gesture – two fingers stabbing the air, a palm facing upward – symbolizes a different type of sound, which the choir then creates with their voices. This is the Overtime Improv Choir, a Fredericton-based improvising choir […]