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By Jon Doel WELLINGTON, NZ — The Wales rugby squad are hoping to sing their way to glory in New Zealand after forming a Rugby World Cup choir. Team manager Alan Phillips today revealed the Welsh squad has formed the vocal group as part of their team bonding in New Zealand. And, while Welsh players like […]

  Friends of ACDA,   Richard W. Wesp, former choral music teacher in the Forest Hills School District, retired in June of this year after an astounding 57 years of teaching.  Over 200 friends, family, and former students gathered at the Newport Syndicate on Saturday, September 3, across the river from Cincinnati, OH for an […]

By Josh O’Kane   TORONTO — Nobu Adilman is trying to please the hundred people in front of him, but it’s not easy. “Choir’s tough,” he tells a woman at the back of the bar. She wants to sing the highest part of the Eurythmics’ Here Comes the Rain, but   Mr. Adilman has just […]

Lily Newman, a member of the Holles Singers, the reigning BBC Youth Choir of the Year, on why being part of it is so special. The Holles Singers has played a big role of the Music Department at Lady Eleanor Holles (LEH) School since long before I was a student there. It forms the vocal […]

NAKURU, KENYA — The Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa won 14 top three placings including five firsts at the 2011 National Kenya Music Festival held in Nakuru.   In one category the Academy was placed first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth. The school was recognized on Kenyan national TV as the top individual school in a […]

Dear choral conductors and singers   I am a conductor and I am developing a postdoctoral research about “The work of the maestro as a manager and the organizational perspective of choral singing”. This project is being developed at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.   I would like to invite all the choral conductors […]