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With a long history of song festivals, Estonia is a country where singing has served the purpose of both entertainment and political protest. Today’s young Estonians are keeping up this tradition. The small Baltic country of Estonia has hundreds of choirs, which meet at schools, churches and even factories. Many towns hold regular music festivals […]

by Leslie Gray Streeter, The Palm Beach Post Boynton Beach Community High School’s Dimensional Harmony show choir got its moment in the national spotlight on Friday, when it appeared live on “The Today Show” in New York. All through Today’s fourth hour at 10 a.m., the show kept airing footage of the choir’s exuberant reaction […]

Steven and Stijn Kolacny were just a couple of Belgians doing a cool thing — namely, arranging, recording and performing a mix of original songs and pop and rock covers with their 238-member girls’ choir, Scala & Kolacny Brothers. Then David Fincher tapped Scala’s take on Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ for ‘The Social Network’ trailer and, a […]

CLACKAMAS, OR — Scott Davis, the choir director at Clackamas High School, was honored as K103 radio’s Educator of the Week after being nominated by former student Sarah Hazen. He was featured in a live radio interview, and received an engraved crystal apple, a two-night stay at the Westin Portland, a gift card for the […]

By Janelle Gelfand • jgelfand(a)enquirer.com • November 12, 2010 In December 2001, two West Chester Township boys, Ryan Slone, then 11, and Donald Smith, then 13, became the second and third U.S. citizens to join the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir. Two years later, Benjamin Kleykamp, then 11, of Mason joined. And the Markowich family of […]

What happens when the members of Chanticleer have two rare afternoons off while on the road?  Why, they whip out their iphones and web cams and make a music video!  This happened earlier this fall when Music Director, Matthew Oltman and Tenor, Brian Hinman wanted to devise a new way to expose listeners to one […]