WATERBURY, MA — Arianne Abela, an award-winning Yale University-trained conductor, has been named director of the Chorister Academy at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Waterbury. She succeeds Maria Coffin, founder of the six-year-old youth music program, based at the church, located at 16 Church St. Ms. Abela graduated in May from the Yale University School of […]
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Amersham A Capella named Good Housekeeping Choir of the Year
LONDON, UK — AN all-female choir from Amersham has taken the title of Good Housekeeping Choir of the Year 2010. Amersham A Cappella outshone three other finalists in the prestigious annual competition with renditions of ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’, ‘Joint is Jumpin’’ and ‘Somebody to Love’ at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London earlier this month. The […]
Women’s choir serves community for Breast Cancer Awareness
Every college student wants to be a part of a class that really does not seem like a class at all. Over the course of four years very few students are able to say that one of their classes feels like another home. However, for the students of the University of Kentucky Women’s Choir that […]
Rock Band Gigs to Raise Funds, Exposure for Community Chorus
MELROSE, MA — Memorial Hall in Melrose isn’t exactly the Stone Pony, and the Polymnia Choral Society, a 57-year-old volunteer chorus headquartered in Melrose, doesn’t usually engender fist pumping at its concerts. The group’s next performance on Dec. 3, for example, titled “A Victorian Christmas,” will feature excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” and other seasonal favorites, […]
Sing it out for your mental health
LIMERICK, IRELAND — Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:01 “CHORAL music is going through a certain renaissance now. It has become a very popular past-time to be involved in,” declares one who knows. Liz Powell is chief executive officer of the Limerick based Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), an organisation that carries the strapline “enchancing life […]
Randall Giles (1950 – 2010), composer and ethnomusicologist
Randall Giles, composer and ethnomusicologist, died Aug. 27, 2010, in India, following a heart attack. He was 60. In 1999, as a missionary of the Episcopal church, Randy was invited to serve the Church of South India, to do parish-based work in music, and to work towards the founding of a center for Indian […]