SASKATOON — Phoebe Voigts, the artistic director of the Saskatoon Children’s Choir, has been named Children’s Champion of the Year by Child & Youth Friendly Saskatoon. Each year, the organization honours a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children in the community. Voigts founded the SCC in 1996. […]
News and Notices
“Pope’s choir’ makes 2 NJ stops in first visit to the USA
By Bill Nutt TRENTON, NJ — As a child growing up in Italy, Marco Frisina knew he wanted to be a musician. As a young man, he realized he had another vocation: the priesthood. Frisina realized he could reconcile his two callings. “I realized I could be a servant of God and serve Him through […]
Choir tunes up at Madison Heights KFC
By Taylor Trammell Madison Heights— Customers at the KFC on 12 Mile got a serenade along with their chicken Sunday to promote the company’s “10 Buck Sunday Buckets.” Members of the Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music & Art Choir were selected for the performance after receiving a $1,000 KFC grant to aid financially struggling choirs. […]
40 years of singing has been their choral commitment
Written by Janelle Gelfand CINCINNATI — Sally Harper and Bob Lucero have sung in the May Festival Chorus for 40 years – a record. Both were born in the month of May. And both are cancer survivors. They each learned they had cancer while singing with the chorus. After surgery and treatment, they each returned […]
Programming
If anyone’s interested, I have a number of posts on programming on my blog. Comments are welcome. http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2008/01/programming-i.html http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2008/01/programming-ii.html http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2008/01/programming-iii.html http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2008/02/programming-iv.html one on the Ensemble concert I did while at Pacific Lutheran University: http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2008/01/ensemble-concert-at-pluone-on-part.html Trying to create an atmosphere for Victoria’s Requiem in a concert hall: http://richardsparks1.blogspot.com/2009/04/victoria-requiem-creating-right.html Programming Bernstein’s Choruses from ‘The […]
J. Fred Wolle’s Legacy Lives on in Bach Choir
By Frank Whelan Bethlehem’s Bach Choir has been around for over 100 years. Like a monument to another time it blends community spirit with high art in a way that few organizations do today. And most of it is owed to a man named J. Fred Wolle (1863-1933). Wolle (pronounced Wally) had roots deep in […]