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A choir of 2,000 attempted to set a world record on Saturday by singing one of Switzerland’s best-loved traditional songs, a herdsman’s melody from canton Fribourg. Saturday’s performance at Villars-sur-Glâne was recorded on camera, and a legal attestation will be sent to the Guinness Book of Records for approval. The coordinator of the event, Véronique […]

Sunday, October 03, 2010 By Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Anyone who has ever sung in a choir, from school to church to professional, knows the tinge of fear and bubbling of excitement that comes when the conductor first raises those hands for the entrance cue. Will everyone come in at the same time? Now imagine […]

Shillong erupted in wild celebrations Saturday night after Shillong Chamber Choir won the reality TV show India’s Got Talent Khoj 2 at the grand finale in Mumbai.   People chanted Ka jingjop! ka jingjop! (We won! We Won!)” on the main thoroughfares in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, after the results were announced Saturday.   […]

  This is proving quite a year for Seattle’s Choral Arts.   The group’s most recent CD, “Mornings Like This,” won the newly established American Prize in Choral Performance (community division). It was their first recording with artistic director Robert Bode (pronounced “Bo-dee”), now in his fourth year with the ensemble.   Choral Arts also […]

At 91, Claude Schmitz hasn’t forgotten the meaning of the word humble. “I didn’t do it,” he said with a laugh. But ask any one of the two-dozen former students he had at Colorado State College, now the University of Northern Colorado, and they’ll tell you he did it all. Friday, they got to tell […]

Wayland Rogers is the 2010 winner of The Thorensian Prize, a choral composition competition offered biennially by the Chantry Quire of Chichester, England. His SATB cappella setting of Shakespeare’s  ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE will receive its world premiere Nov. 20 at St. Pauls Church, Chichester.