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. […]
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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 […]
REVIEW: Verdi Requiem with Stan Engebretson and the National Philharmonic and Chorale
Read about the performance of the Verdi Requiem: Soprano Arianna Zukerman http://www.examiner.com/performing-arts-in-washington-dc/a-bit-of-heaven-and-earth-verdi-s-requiem-offers-the-best-of-both-worlds-review?fb_comment=33627446
Singers needed for 9-11 Anniversary Mozart’s Requiem performance
ProMusica Arizona Chorale & Orchestra (PMAZ) is seeking additional singers ( especially bass & tenor) for a commemorative 10th Anniversary of September 11 Rolling Requiem performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Singers should be available for 7pm rehearsals on Aug 16,23,30. Sept 6, and dress rehearsal on Sept 10, plus two performances on Sept 11. PMAZ is […]