News and Notices

Through the years, he’s been a prominent fixture on the local music scene, from his performances as Tevye in several productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” to his yearly “Lessons and Carols” celebrations that kick off the Christmas season.   He’ll be feted at a marathon concert today at the Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall at […]

Lucinda Thayer of Plover, conductor of the Wausau Lyric Choir, is scheduled to fly home today after her initial flight plans were canceled Sunday. Thayer, who is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was serving for the fourth time as the American judge in an international choir […]

Greece Athena High School’s Show Choir will be able to cruise the Greek Isles after all, after ash from volcanic eruptions in Iceland disrupted travel plans here and around the world in the past few days.   Thousands of flights were canceled as a vast cloud of grit drifted over Europe. The Greece Athena students […]

New Haven, Connecticut (WTNH) – It may not sound like much of a problem to be stuck in Milan until the skies clear, but parents of the Branford High Concert Choir are beginning to get a little anxious. It’s a trip of a lifetime that has turned into a wait of a lifetime on both […]

 “This group is first about people, and we use music as a vehicle,” said Zahn. “We go out and help people.”   “Not to say that we don’t want to put on the best performances possible, but this is about raising funds to help others, and we happen to have fun doing it.”   The […]

Two weeks after a judge said the city’s Department of Education could not close 19 schools as planned, one of the schools is back on the city’s agenda to be shuttered.   The new plan to close the school — which is actually not a school per se, but the high school grades of the Choir Academy of Harlem — is […]