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By LINDA TRIMBLE, Education writer DAYTONA BEACH, FL — For Jonathan Wright, singing with the Pine Ridge High School Men’s Choir is akin to a shot of adrenaline. “It gets your heart racing,” said the 17-year-old junior. “You’re stepping out of your box to do something like singing on stage.” Jonathan, who joined the Men’s […]

The Los Angeles Master Chorale – the renowned resident choir of Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Music Director Grant Gershon – and KUSC (91.5 FM) – one of the largest and most listened to classical radio stations in the country – have announced a two-year broadcast partnership in which 14 of the acclaimed choir’s […]

Think children’s choir and an image emerges of rows of bright, young faces and angelic voices raised in song. But what happens when some of those voices start to change? For years, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus said goodbye to its maturing boys once they strayed outside the traditional treble range. That awkward rite of […]

The American Choral Directors Association is pleased to announce the 2011 Wall of Honor inductees.  They include, Dr. Horace Boyer, Mr. David Davison, Mr. Brazeal Dennard, Mr. Walter Ehret, Dr. Lee Kjelson, and Mr. Paul Manz.  Their portraits and biographies will be added to the Wall of Honor which will be displayed at the 2011 […]

by Monica Orosz Daily Mail staff CHARLESTON, SC — When she joined the Appalachian Children’s Chorus in 1994 as a shy fifth-grader, Chitra Sampath could not have imagined how it would shape her life. Now living in Hollywood as a screenwriter, Sampath doesn’t make her living with her voice and admits her singing now is […]

By Rhianne Pope » WHEN a handful of friends set up a singing group in 1985, they never thought it would go beyond that. But next month the Headington Singers celebrate their 25th anniversary with a special concert. And the 90 members, comprising men and women aged 20 to 80, have been packing out churches […]