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By Mary Shinn September 7, 2010 at 9:44 pm Inspired by the hit TV show “Glee,” a group of ASU students will be heading back to high school this semester to start a show choir. GLEEders, a group of ASU mentors, will be advising three show choir groups of students from Corona Del Sol High […]

MONTGOMERY – The parents of a Montgomery Intermediate School student are frustrated that three-fourths of the children trying out for the school’s choir program have been denied access – including their son. Of the nearly 400 MIS students trying out for the school’s choir program, only 100 have been accepted into the extracurricular activity. Matt […]

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Decca is delighted to announce the signing of composer Eric Whitacre. With this global deal Whitacre joins an elite handful of composers with an exclusive, long-term recording contract on a major label.   Whitacre will record his debut Decca album “Light & Gold” in London at the beginning of August with a choral group to […]

LONDON — It’s “girl power” in Britain all over again, but this time via cassocks and choir music instead of sequins and pop songs. Isabel Suckling, 12, has broken an almost exclusively male singing tradition to become the first choir girl to be signed by Decca the record label, whose parent company is also home […]

MANSFIELD – Peggy Dettwiler, professor of Music and director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University, was honored with the 2010 Elaine Brown Award for Choral Excellence at the American Choral Directors Association of Pennsylvania annual summer conference on Aug. 2 in State College.   The award is presented “to an individual for outstanding lifelong work […]