The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will honor the memory of longtime choral professor James Dearing in a concert on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The event will feature over 125 current and past students of the IUP choral program in a grand concert befitting of a fine teacher, conductor, […]
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Sarah Morrison receives 2010 Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting
Toronto, December 2, 2010 – The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) and Choirs Ontario today announced Sarah Morrison, Music Director of the Oakville Children’s Choir as this year’s recipient of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting. The Leslie Bell Prize will be presented to Ms. Morrison at the Choir’s The Frosty Weather concert on December […]
Various choral groups stage flash mob at Daphne Walmart
DAPHNE, Ala.—Shoppers at the Walmart were surprised Saturday at 1 p.m. by approximately 100 voices of a “flash mob” choral group belting out the hymn “Hallelujah Chorus” by Handel Messiah. About 100 people stunned Walmart shoppers Saturday as they simultaneously burst into a Christmas song. (Photo submitted by Tomasina Werner) Shoppers stopped everything they were […]
Has your ChoralNet email stopped recently?
If your ChoralNet email has stopped flowing recently, you're not alone. ChoralNet, along with many other legitimate sites (including Amazon and Yahoo) were recently incorrectly added to a "real-time email blacklist" of supposed dynamic IPs called the SORBS DUHL. This blacklist is intended to provide a point of data that your email server uses […]
History of Music Education/Choirs — Research Symposium June 2-4 2011
ACDA Colleagues, The MENC and several universities are teaming up to hold a symposium on the history of music teaching and learning in Chattanooga, Tennessee, next June 2-4. This includes the history of choirs. Email me for a brochure or view this site: www.GCSU.edu/srig. The brochure includes the Call for […]
Who’s afraid of a choir master?
SF Gay Men’s Chorus conductor Kathleen McGuire moves on by Philip Gambone When Kathleen McGuire conducts the last of a trio of Christmas Eve concerts at the Castro Theatre this month, she will put the finishing flourish on a decade-long tenure as the first female conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. She’s going […]