News and Notices

Kenneth Bailey • Community Music • December 5, 2010 When I considered writing this article, I was unsure what to write. Should I write about how the Oakdale Community Choir has brought about a change in me, a convicted felon? I easily could write a summary of the great opportunities I’ve had while with the […]

By Fiona Maddocks Walking into the Royal Festival Hall last Sunday afternoon, it was as if one had stepped backstage by mistake. In a mood of pre-show frenzy, the entire audience seemed to be straightening shirts, brushing down jackets, fixing up hair, combing, smoothing, pinning, crimping, ready for the big moment when, each with their […]

By Pat Gee HONOLULU — The Rev. Daniel J. Werning led the Hawaii Sacred Choir during practice at the Cathedral of St. Theresa on Thursday. The nondenominational choir, which includes youth and adult singers, will give its first public concert next Saturday at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Most members of the new Hawaii Sacred […]

BY MARIE HAVENGA mhavenga(a)grandhaventribune.com The voices of Grand Haven High School choir students span the globe — as well as the Internet and iTunes. There’s a check for $46.34 sitting in the office of the school’s vocal music teacher, Shirley Lemon, that proves it. “We received our first check from iTunes,” Lemon said. “I haven’t […]

  The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will honor the memory of longtime choral professor James Dearing in a concert on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The event will feature over 125 current and past students of the IUP choral program in a grand concert befitting of a fine teacher, conductor, […]

Toronto, December 2, 2010 – The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and Choirs Ontario today announced Sarah Morrison, Music Director of the Oakville Children’s Choir as this year’s recipient of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting. The Leslie Bell Prize will be presented to Ms. Morrison at the Choir’s The Frosty Weather concert on December […]