By Deneesha Edwards LEXINGTON, NC — Melonie Rector is no stranger to the music community of Lexington. For the past eight years as the choral director at Lexington Middle School, she has shared a deep passion of hers with the students in Lexington City Schools. Her hard work was evident Thursday when she […]
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Campkin takes over Chigwellian choir, invigorates it with Monty Python
By Clare Hardy CHIGWELL UK –THE new head of a choral society said he wanted to inject some extra life into the group. Alexander Campkin, 26, has taken over at the Chigwellian Choral Society and said he wanted to double the size of the 50-strong choir and challenge people’s ideas of a classical […]
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Ted Vives wins The American Prize in Choral Composition
The American Prize is pleased to announce that the winner of The American Prize in Composition (Choral Division) is Ted Vives, for Castrovalva, Lux Aeterna and Gloria. Ted Vives has received many awards and commissions for his choral and instrumental works. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Music Composition and Education from Florida State University and […]
Dodge City Community College Concert Choir takes on community service project
By Eric Swanson DODGE CITY — Sixteen students bustled around a Wright Park picnic shelter Monday, cleaning graffiti and putting fresh paint on the shelter. The students belong to the Dodge City Community College Concert Choir, and they were working on the picnic shelter as a community service project before the semester ends. The project […]
Lutheran Youth Choir of North America inaugurates new Festival of American Vocal Music in Germany this summer
The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America, founded in 2005, will inaugurate a new Festival of American Vocal Music for American and German high school age youth at the medieval Mansfeld Castle outside of Wittenberg, Germany this summer. Running from July 30 to August 6, 2011, this festival will unite twenty select young American singers from […]