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, […]
News and Notices
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 […]
Show by first autistic children’s choir
KUALA LUMPUR – For the first time, a choir comprising 27 autistic children performed to a full audience yesterday with their rendition of Heal the world and You raise me up. This feat was recorded in the Malaysia Book of Records as the first autistic choir in the country. The children, aged between seven and […]
White Eagle (Poland) for Stefan Stuligrosz
Poland’s most prominent choral conductor, Stefan Stuligrosz, founder and music director of the Poznan Nightingales (Slowiki) Boys’ and Men’s Choir, has been decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state distinction. Stuligrosz received the decoration from President Bronislaw Komorowski at a gala concert in Pozna?, which was also a celebration of […]
Choir’s 60 years of song
ABERSTWYTH, WALES, UK — IT has long been a tradition for university students to join clubs and societies, taking part in extra-curricular activities such as sport and singing. With so much competition, societies often come and go, but one which has remained a regular feature at Aberystwyth University is the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers, affectionately knows […]