News and Notices

Eastern Kentucky University has appointed Dr. Richard Waters director of choral activities. Waters, associate professor of music, will direct the University’s three choral ensembles and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and choral literature. He received a bachelor’s degree in music education from James Madison University, a master’s degree in choral conducting from the […]

By Bernie Delinski MUSCLE SHOALS – Standing alongside a piano inside FAME Recording Studios, Hackleburg High School choir director Judy Miller reached over and pressed a key. With that, her students, who had formed a semicircle Thursday facing a pair of microphones, made sure their voices were in harmony. Miller then signaled to them and […]

By Zaimarie De Guzman STUART, FL — Most seniors at Martin County High School are tired of writing final projects and college applications, but a small group of them last week happily volunteered to write an essay addressed to one of their teachers — Ronald Corbin. For 31 years, Corbin, 62, has directed the school’s […]

The choir, comprised of special-needs men and women from ages 21 to 50, sat before director J.D. Allen as he led them in a rendition of an original song titled “Little Flowers,” about how children and special-needs people are precious and fragile. J.D. strummed his guitar and guided the choir through the song, one of […]

Wayland Rogers has won the Illinois ACDA Choral Composition Competition with WHEN DAISIES PIED, a work for a cappella mixed chorus, with a text by William Shakespeare. It is to be premiered at the Illinois ACDA ReTreat on July 7th at Illinois State Universtiy in Normal Illinois, sung by The Directors’ Chorus conducted by Dr. David Rayl of Michigan State University.

By Matthew Burns   HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Orange County Schools on Tuesday named Cedar Ridge High School choral director Christopher Hansen as the school district’s 2011-12 Teacher of the Year.   “There are so many outstanding teachers at Cedar Ridge and throughout the district. I truly humbled and honored,” Hansen said in a statement. “We […]