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By Eric T. Campbell and Zenobia Jeffries DETROIT — Students at Detroit Southeastern High School have staged three walk-outs and a sit-in after DPS budget cuts left them with no music programs. In a final show of protest, the Voices of Southeastern chorale singers gained entry to the March 11 Michigan State Vocal Music Association […]

You want Ann Howard Jones to do a workshop with your chorus?  The bidding starts at $200. Love one of Eric Whitacre’s pieces?  Have him handwrite and autograph the first page for you.  A private lesson with Dale Warland can help you put the finishing touches on your next big concert.   Chorus America’s online […]

By Stuart Derdeyn VANCOUVER — Back in the early 1970s, future conservative squares were dropping tabs of purple microdot, tuning into laughable tracks such as “Almost Cut My Hair,” turning on to their own self interest and dropping out of whatever it was that wasn’t “cool” according to Madison Avenue advertising companies selling them over-the-counter […]

BY SARAH BULMER The sound of music floated through the halls of the Shelter House. Ten choir members, including several residents, sat in a small room singing “Prayer, Love, Light, and Peace.” The sound drifted into the lobby, where fellow residents slowly trickled in to listen. “When we were singing, some residents stopped by, and […]

By Kate Goodacre Gareth Malone will work with military families on a new series of The Choir. BBC Two has confirmed that the choirmaster will return with a further three episodes of his BAFTA and RTS award-winning show this autumn. He will spend six months at the Chivenor barracks in Devon, home to Royal Marines, […]

by Sue Dremann PALO ALTO — A local Japanese choral group that practices at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Palo Alto has made a YouTube video to muster aid, raise awareness and bring comfort to the tragedy-stricken people of Japan. The Choral Cosmos’s roughly 4.5-minute video features the group performing “We Are the World.” The […]