News and Notices

By Lawrence A. Johnson Joshua Habermann, artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida, will leave the position at the end of this season after three years. The 42-year old choral director will move to Texas to take up a new assignment as chorus director for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. That also means that […]

SEYMOUR, TN — This year the Seymour High School Choral Department joined forces with other choirs to give back to the community. SHS performed with the choir from St. John’s Episcopal Church, Transformed (an interdenominational seminar and conversation group), and members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra to present “Handel’s Messiah” and Robert Shaw’s “The Many […]

By Michael Pickard A community choir hopes to raise the roof once again, as soon as a new musical director can be found. The Watford One Voice Community Choir, spearheaded by Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, was formed more than two years ago. More than 40 members rehearse once a week at the Clarendon Muse, in Rickmansworth […]

GLENS FALLS, NY — Politicians took part in an impromptu mass choir at the Glens Falls Martin Luther King Jr. Day service in Glens Falls on Sunday evening, singing “Let Their Be Peace on Earth” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” By coincidence, I was standing next to U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, in the […]

By: Anthony Mirones PRICE HILL, Ohio – St. Williams Parish in Price Hill is a cornerstone in the community at 8th and Sunset. Now one of its members will be recognized for his golden commitment to the parish, its school and the community. Dave Allen began as the director of music at the church in […]

Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) A group of singers from an Aboriginal children's choir from southern Taiwan's Pingtung County won enthusiastic applause at a local version of a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Taipei Saturday. Six singers from the Tai Wu Elementary School Chorus led by Camake Valaule performed traditional Paiwan songs at TEDx Taipei, […]