2011 Chorus America Award Winners: Chorus America Distinguished Service Award Dr. André J. Thomas, professor of choral music education and director of choral activities at The Florida State University in Tallahassee; artistic director, Tallahassee Community Chorus Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming The Crossing Donald Nally, conductor International Orange Chorale of San Francisco Zane Fiala, artistic […]
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Louisville Bach Society’s Dickinsons to retire
By Elizabeth Kramer When the Louisville Bach Society concludes today’s performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor, it will also mark the end of this 47-year-old community choir founded by Melvin and Margaret Dickinson during the first few years of their marriage. The society spans their personal and professional lives here. The Dickinsons […]
1,000 kids lift voices in song, learn life lessons in choir
By Jay Harvey INDIANAPOLIS — When Henry Leck enters the Indianapolis Children’s Choir rehearsal room in Lilly Hall at Butler University, the rambunctious youngsters quickly settle down and get to work. Harnessing the energy of a large group of schoolchildren isn’t an easy feat, but there’s really no mystery to Leck’s control. For 25 years, […]
Direct appeal to private sector yields results for NJ high school choir
by Tricia Tirella North Hudson, NJ — Horace Mann School’s council had attempted to raise funds for a new sound system for the school, but they were only able to raise around a fifth of the cost of the expensive $4,000 system. Nikhil Vats, an eighth grade chorus member, said that the old system’s deficiencies […]
Everyone raves about the festival – Reno brings luck
Reno, known as a city of gambling, is now also a festival city of choirs. Happy faces of the singers confirmed this impression after the Closing Event of the second American International Choral Festival (AICF, 4 – 8 May) in the United States. “This is the best festival so far,” raved U.S. conductor James Reddan […]
Dawn Kranz honored by MENC
NORWAY, MI – Dawn Kranz, choral director and music specialist at the Norway-Vulcan Area Schools, has been selected as April 2011 choral director Mentor of the Month by the Music Educators National Conference. The conference an organization compromised of 175,000 music educators throughout the country. Mentors are chosen for their musical contributions to their school […]