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Mumbai, October 05, 2010 Shillong Chamber Choir, which won India’s Got Talent, will start a music school with their Rs 50 lakh prize money. Says Donna Marthomg, member of the choir, “Much before we won the title, we had decided to start a music school. It’s what we always wanted to do. We tried to […]

Scunthorpe, UK A SPECTACULAR Scunthorpe choral director has been hitting all the right notes at a national awards ceremony in London. Talented choir master Susan Hollingworth, of the Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, has scooped a prestigious award in recognition of her invaluable contribution to the community. Susan picked up Gramophone magazines’ Music In The Community […]

Washington National Cathedral’s 2010 Blessing of the Animals will officially welcome Carmina, the new Cathedral cat adopted by the Cathedral Choral Society from the Washington Humane Society. The Blessing of the Animals service will take place Sunday, Oct. 3 at 2:30 p.m. on the Cathedral’s west steps. All pets and their caretakers are invited to […]

Thomas Vozzella thinks of it as the worship arts version of building a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield. “Build it, and they will come,” Vozzella said, referring to the Fine and Performing Arts Academy that First Presbyterian Church in Rapid City recently launched on a shoestring budget as part of its children and youth […]

Does anyone have a recording of the following pieces by Giacomo Puccini “senior” published by Hinshaw (I’m looking for recordings preferably with choir accompanied by instrumental ensemble rather than piano alone):   Magnificat (Hinshaw HMB-189)   Magnificat in D (Hinshaw HMB-217)   Laudate Pueri (Hinshaw HMC1677)   Laetatus Sum (Hinshaw HMC1676)   Credo in G […]

I open my annual Christmas concert with an orchestral piece and after ten years am running out of new ideas. I’m looking for something Boston Popish along the lines of Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival.”  A crowd pleaser to set the mood.  FYI, the featured work will be Rutter’s “Magnificat” but I like to mix things […]

In brief: 1.5 years ago I started with a 40 voice choir that was gifted in an average church choir kind of way. We have had a major shift to 20 voices (16 woman, 4 men) through church amalgamation and the hurt and deep grief that follows this process – not to mention general delince […]

I am in a unique situation – my HS Women’s group were selected to sing at a state MENC conference, and we share a concert with another women’s group directed by my close friend and mentor.  We would like to combine our groups for one peice on the program.  My group has 24 singers, and […]

I’ve had an auditioned mixed choir of 6-8 graders in our parochial school for a few years. We’ve been blessed with a good number of boys and have been able to sing mostly 2-3 part Treble music.  Now after getting pretty comfortable with our repertoire (their favorite songs are Rutter’s For the Beauty of the […]

Does anyone have the physical CD of Schumann, R.: Secular Choral Music, Vol. 1 – Spanisches Liederspiel / 4 Doppelchorige Gesange (Orpheus Vocal Ensemble)? I need the translations for the following pieces: Vier doppelchörige Gesänge op. 141 (2. Ungewisses Licht, 4.Talismane); Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74 (5. Es ist verraten, 9. Ich bin geliebt); Three poems after […]