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By KYLE MUNSON • November 7, 2010 Cedar Rapids, Ia. — Coe College senior Janet Stone’s mellifluous soprano rang out Thursday with the aria “Ah! I Want to Live” from Charles Gounod’s 19th century French opera version of “Romeo and Juliet.” The song’s youthful joy belies how we all know Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy ends: the […]

By NPR Staff November 7, 2010 A choral group known for its early-music repertoire and a saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners. But when the Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Jan Garbarek for the first time in 1993, the result was Officium, a recording of hauntingly beautiful […]

      ChoralExpress is a great online source to find and post choral concerts.    The 2010 Holiday Concerts are now posted!   Check out the site at www.choralexpress.com.

EASTON, MD — The Easton Choral Arts Society has announced its interim artistic director and choral conductor to direct the fall season will be Wesley “Wes” Dean Lockfaw. A native of Pocomoke City, Lockfaw holds degrees in sacred music from Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. and Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and has done additional […]

Lehigh University in historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania   Lehigh University Choral Arts offers Choral Scholarships each year to incoming freshmen.  Talented singers of any major or minor concentration at Lehigh University are eligible for scholarships of $10,000 over 4 years.  As a Choral Scholar, recipients participate in University Choir and one or more of the other […]

The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America announces the 2010 winner of its first annual International Choral Composition Contest:  Ronald A. Nelson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, composer of the winning anthem, "Why Not the Earth?"  This contest supports the compostion of excellent sacred music suitable for high-school-age choirs.  Entries were received this year from Japan, Italy, Canada, […]