News and Notices

By Sirotin Sergei MOSCOW — A performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s grandiose oratory “St. John Passion” will start the international festival of Bach’s music in Moscow on March 4. The festival will host musicians from Russia, Germany, France, the US, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands and Brazil, and will last till March 25. The program […]

By Mary Beth McCauley, Chester, Pa. — Even if they don’t sing a single note of music as adults, the performers in the Chester Children’s Chorus will make a difference in the world. Of that much their founding director is convinced. After all, his own participation in the Newark (N.J.) Boys Chorus opened a new […]

By MIKE AVERILL TULSA — Stormy Morton always wanted to sing in a choir. She just never thought it would take being homeless to find her voice. Morton is a member of Voices of Hope, a choir consisting of people staying at The Salvation Army’s Center of Hope and a couple of its employees and […]

By Richard Duckett WORCESTER, MA — When Graeme McCullough became interim music director of All Saints Church on Pleasant and Irving streets in November, he noticed that “All Saints has a perfect acoustic for choirs.” One of Mr. McCullough's first services was the kind where you hope that everything will go perfectly. The occasion was […]

By Anna Sudar NEWARK– The first time Bob Ewing heard Anthony Brown sing, he knew he was listening to something special. Ewing was a music teacher at Central Christian High School in Kidron, working with dozens of students every day, when Brown auditioned for his choir in 1965. Something about the 16-year-old’s voice made him […]

University of Iowa students, faculty and community volunteers are partnering with residents and staff at the Shelter House in Iowa City to share a mutual love of singing. Participants of a newly created Shelter House Choir are gathering from 5 to 6 p.m. Fridays now through the end of April as part of a pilot […]