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Composer/pianist Ola Gjeilo joins the CWU Chamber Choir (Gary Weidenaar, director) in presenting Gjeilo's "Ubi Caritas". Thanks, Gary, for this fine production of a beautiful YouTube video and unique moment:    

Congratulations to the fine choirs the participated in the 2011 Marktoberdorf Competition, especially Kent Hatteburg and the University of Louisville:   Achievement Level I – excellent performance at an international level Entrevoces, Havana • Cuba 1st prize Dir.: Digna Guerra Ramirez Achievement Level II – very good performance at an international level University of Louisville Cardinal […]

It looks like choral musicians are going to conferences again!  ChorusAmerica actually turned people away from their last conference because of the high attendance.   Ann Meier Baker talks about the "state of choral music" from her perspective in this podcast from a San Francisco radio station. Ann Meier Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer […]

I’m thinking about programming this work next year and I thought I’d share a superb performance with the Sunday visitors to ChoralNet:    

The announcement for the next NCCO Conference came out and I must say that it looks incredible.   Bravo, NCCO!  Take a look at these outstanding offerings:   The conference will be hosted by Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado from November 3 – 5 and will feature: Sessions by Headliners Helmuth Rilling (Inside […]

If this came on last Thursday night, I missed it.  Did anyone see it?  The Choir That Rocks   Described here on A Cappella News:   A recent phenomenon in England is the emergence of the Rock Choir. Created in 2005 by director Caroline Redman Lusher, Rock Choir is the first choir to offer a very […]

In yesterday’s blog, I featured Alex Ross’s great post about the new movie “The Tree of Life”.   At the end of his post, he talked about his ideas relating the great choral motet “Warum?” to Brahms’ Fourth Symphony: By the way, Brahms’s great motet “Warum?” is a setting of the anguished question from the […]

Alex Ross has done a splendid classical music preview of a new movie directed by Terrence Malick, that features Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.   The film is full of great classical music and much of it is choral or choral related, including: Berlioz: 10. Agnus Dei [Requiem, Op. 5 (Grande Messe des […]

A remarkable interview with Sir Colin Davis in the Guardian, a portion of it here: Davis tells me he has spent a lifetime fighting a battle. Not against orchestras, managers, or musicians, but against his ego. "One's ego becomes less and less interesting as you get older, to oneself and to everyone else. I have […]

A great story I found on A Cappella News: STOCKHOLM — Quick action by the head of a Canadian choir touring Sweden narrowly averted an accident when the driver of their tour bus suffered a heart attack at full speed, Swedish media reported Monday. About five minutes into the University of Manitoba choir’s journey from […]