News and Notices

DAPHNE, Ala.—Shoppers at the Walmart were surprised Saturday at 1 p.m. by approximately 100 voices of a “flash mob” choral group belting out the hymn “Hallelujah Chorus” by Handel Messiah. About 100 people stunned Walmart shoppers Saturday as they simultaneously burst into a Christmas song. (Photo submitted by Tomasina Werner) Shoppers stopped everything they were […]

  If your ChoralNet email has stopped flowing recently, you're not alone. ChoralNet, along with many other legitimate sites (including Amazon and Yahoo) were recently incorrectly added to a "real-time email blacklist" of supposed dynamic IPs called the SORBS DUHL. This blacklist is intended to provide a point of data that your email server uses […]

  ACDA Colleagues,        The MENC and several universities are teaming up to hold a symposium on the history of music teaching and learning in Chattanooga, Tennessee, next June 2-4. This includes the history of choirs.       Email me for a brochure or view this site: www.GCSU.edu/srig. The brochure includes the Call for […]

SF Gay Men’s Chorus conductor Kathleen McGuire moves on by Philip Gambone When Kathleen McGuire conducts the last of a trio of Christmas Eve concerts at the Castro Theatre this month, she will put the finishing flourish on a decade-long tenure as the first female conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. She’s going […]

By Andrew Benoit, Voice Staff Writer RICHMOND, MI — The Richmond Community Choir has a devoted following. Proof of that can be found with the overflowing crowds found each year during the group’s annual Christmas concerts. When people flock to the Richmond High School auditorium each year to see the choir perform, it’s not money […]

By Emily Campbell The news that the Handel Children’s Choir in Baltimore was being disbanded because of financial constraints was almost too much to bear for the 60 children who make up the chorus. “Everyone was just stunned into silence. A few of the parents and lot of the kids were crying. It was really […]