News and Notices

It’s not too late to register for the Annual Breakfast to be held at the Marriott Hotel Downtown, 13th & Market Sts. Philadelphia, PA   Cost is $18.00  – check payable to Temple Music Alumni – send to Janet Yamron                                                                                               2401 Pennsylvania Avenue 3C42                                                                                               Philadelphia, PA  19130    See earlier notice for full details.  […]

Don Collins, professor emeritus of choral music education at the University of Central Arkansas, is basking now in the glow of an award he recently received – induction into the Hall of Fame of the Arkansas Music Educators Association, presented in recognition of his outstanding support and contributions to music education.   People who recognize his […]

But the Harmonics, part of Stanford for almost two decades, are about as musically big as a small set of student voices could be. The group’s penchant for creative risk has been galvanized by departing music director Charlie Forkish, ’11, who over the last three years has driven the Harmonics into such technologically edgy territory […]

Dainava, a Chicago-based Lithuanian chorale, has prepared a special musical program featuring an authentic Lithuanian instrument, a reed pipe called a “birbyne,” in a unique program combining folk instrument and choral music traditions.   The performance will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. at the Lemont High School Performing Arts Center, 800 […]

Geraint Llyr Owen, 13, a member of Llandaff Cathedral Choir, Cardiff, performed a solo in Pie Jesu at the Celebrating Karl Jenkins concert at the Wales Millennium Centre in November. The concert was broadcast on the Welsh language channel S4C and the clip was posted on the internet.   Distinguished Concerts International New York saw […]

  There are now more choirs in the UK than fish and chip shops, and a spate of television programmes about choral singing – including Last Choir Standing and the two award-winning series by choirmaster Gareth Malone – suggest that, as Wyatt puts it, "singing together is so much more than making a noise with […]