Seattle Pro Musica, conducted by Karen P. Thomas, appeared on KING 5 TV on November 30. The choir performed Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Wassail Song” on the ‘New Day Northwest’ show on KING 5, and talked about it’s upcoming “Nowell” concerts and educational outreach programs. For more information on Seattle Pro Musica, go to www.seattlepromusica.org […]
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Stephen Chatman Given SOCAN Jan V. Matajcek Classical Music Award
“The Canadian Music Centre is extremely pleased to report Associate Composer Stephen Chatman has been given the SOCAN Jan V. Matajcek Classical Music Award. The Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award recognizes Stephen Chatman’s overall success as a composer in his genre and comes just after his being awarded the Outstanding Classical Composition Award […]
Choral festival roster takes hit from economy
BY DIANE TOROIAN KEAGGY > The American International Choral Festival debuts Wednesday with dramatically fewer choirs than anticipated and an uncertain outlook. Originally billed as a major celebration of the world’s best choral ensembles, the festival was to draw 2,000-plus singers, judges and teachers to St. Louis. Now, only 400 participants are expected to […]
Mormon Tabernacle Choir enters radio hall of fame
Radio industry recognizes program launched in 1929 By R. Scott Lloyd Church News staff writer Just before the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's program "Music and the Spoken Word" was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in a ceremony Nov. 6, the audience — and radio listeners tuned in to the broadcast of the ceremony […]
Estonians keep their musical tradition alive
With a long history of song festivals, Estonia is a country where singing has served the purpose of both entertainment and political protest. Today’s young Estonians are keeping up this tradition. The small Baltic country of Estonia has hundreds of choirs, which meet at schools, churches and even factories. Many towns hold regular music festivals […]
Boynton Beach High Choir TV Stars for a Day
by Leslie Gray Streeter, The Palm Beach Post Boynton Beach Community High School’s Dimensional Harmony show choir got its moment in the national spotlight on Friday, when it appeared live on “The Today Show” in New York. All through Today’s fourth hour at 10 a.m., the show kept airing footage of the choir’s exuberant reaction […]