News and Notices

By Sharon Lee Tegler SEVERNA PARK, MD — The lyrics to the song “Sanctuary” are simple, but the group of individuals practicing it Thursday evening beamed with pleasureas they combined four layers of harmony with several different rhythms and counter rhythms. The singers were members of a new choir called LifeSongs, which meets weekly in […]

  PROJECT ÌNIN 2012  ONE EARTH CHOIR            © Anna Bacchia 2010                     ÌNIN 2012 – ONE EARTH CHOIR  ‘on the Path of the Peoples’ –                               One Choir spread around the whole Globe.             Voices in cities all over the World will sing together the same music.             […]

By Lawrence A. Johnson Joshua Habermann, artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida, will leave the position at the end of this season after three years. The 42-year old choral director will move to Texas to take up a new assignment as chorus director for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. That also means that […]

SEYMOUR, TN — This year the Seymour High School Choral Department joined forces with other choirs to give back to the community. SHS performed with the choir from St. John’s Episcopal Church, Transformed (an interdenominational seminar and conversation group), and members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra to present “Handel’s Messiah” and Robert Shaw’s “The Many […]

By Michael Pickard A community choir hopes to raise the roof once again, as soon as a new musical director can be found. The Watford One Voice Community Choir, spearheaded by Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, was formed more than two years ago. More than 40 members rehearse once a week at the Clarendon Muse, in Rickmansworth […]

GLENS FALLS, NY — Politicians took part in an impromptu mass choir at the Glens Falls Martin Luther King Jr. Day service in Glens Falls on Sunday evening, singing “Let Their Be Peace on Earth” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” By coincidence, I was standing next to U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, in the […]