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Getting stranded in Paris last month, by the volcanic eruption that grounded cross-Atlantic air traffic, was a mixed blessing for the Mountain View High School Madrigal Singers. They’d already been on the road for two grueling weeks, performing at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Notre Dame in Paris, and were travel-weary. Back home in […]

More than 700,000 Canadian students connected – and sang – with schools around the world Monday.   Celebrated the first Monday of May each year since 2005, Music Monday has Canadian students singing the same song at the exact same time.   Only this year, there was a twist.   Thanks to videoconferencing, the students […]

Dr Robert Harris at Northwestern University is attempting to assemble a database of graduates of our Masters and Doctoral programs in choral conduting.   If you are a graduate of this program, would you drop me an email message at ttropp(a)u.northwestern.edu, with a brief status update?  When you graduated, with which degree, and where you […]

Members of a Mountain View (CA) high school choir whose recent trip to  Europe was unexpectedly extended by a volcano eruption in Iceland returned to  school Monday.   The Mountain View High School Madrigals were stranded in Paris for  a week past their return date after the ash cloud from the volcano prompted  airport closures throughout the […]

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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 […]