Recently returned from a week as choir in residence at Canterbury cathedral, Schola cantorum on Hudson will be holding auditions for the coming season through September 10 as openings remain. Rehearsals begin September 13 and the first concert wil be in mid-October. Solo technique is supported and nurtured through exclusive solo selection from within the […]
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George Shangrow, Seattle conductor, killed in car crash
WINTHROP, Wash. A man killed in a collision on Highway 20 near Winthrop has been identified as Seattle musical director and conductor George Shangrow. The Wenatchee World reports he was on his way Saturday to deliver a lecture at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival when his car collided with a car driven by a 16-year-old. […]
Music and Technology in the Classrooom
Hi, My name is Laurin Daniels and I am a senior Music Education major at Appalachian State University. I am currently involved in a research project with a faculty member seeking answers to how to teach the upcoming students in 2010, 2015, 2020 and beyond. We are researching generational gaps, new technologies, changing learning styles […]
13th-century chant newly discovered
An important article has been published, announcing the discovery of the famousStabat Mater used as a sequence in the Gradual produced by a convent of Dominican nuns in Bologna in the later thirteenth century. This is by far the earliest known example of this hymn used as a sequence rather than as a devotional hymn.
Donald Nally to resign from Lyric Opera of Chicago
By now, nobody in Philadelphia should be surprised that conductor Donald Nally is making a hard-to-explain departure: Lyric Opera of Chicago is expected to announce this week that chorus master Nally is leaving at the end of the 2010-11 season to spend more time with his Philadelphia choir, The Crossing. What wasn’t said: He’s leaving […]