News and Notices

Some of the great items available at Chorus America’s auction: Workshops with Anton Armstrong and Rollo Dilworth – these renowned conductors will rehearse with your chorus for a day and then perform with them in-concert.  Gift certificates for music publishers, including Hal Leonard, earthsongs, Caldwell & Ivory. 20 deluxe “loaded” versions of The Black Folder […]

By Kevin Tibbles They may have many voices, but they’re united in just one goal: to teach themselves and those who will listen to their music that children who are different in some ways can be alike in other ways that matter. At New Trier High School in suburban Winnetka, developmentally disabled students sing alongside […]

By THERESA GOFFREDO The power of the social network can kick-start a revolution, inspire an Academy-Award winning movie and ignite old flames. In Marysville, Facebook created a choir. It all started with Lakey Malan, a 1997 graduate of Marysville-Pilchuck High School, who was talking to a friend one day, trying to remember some details about […]

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has recognized Director of Music Dr. James D. Feiszli with the university’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Professor. The Presidential Award is based on exemplary performance as an assistant, associate or full professor at the School of Mines.   Feiszli holds a bachelor of music education in voice […]

BY Ashley Edwards Walker JACKSON, TN — West Tennessee is filled with talented singers, and now those of the choral variety have the opportunity to exercise their gift in Jackson’s new community choir, the Jackson Choral Society. The group, which has been rehearsing since January, will hold its debut concert at 7 p.m. April 15 […]

By Cathalena E. Burch University of Arizona choral conducting doctoral student Phil Moody won the 11th National Choral Conducting Competition Graduate Division in Chicago March 11. Moody began his journey to the national contest, sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association, last September, when he competed against his 12 fellow UA choral conducting doctoral colleagues […]