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Nice Voice. Is It Yours?

January 15, 2010 by Allen H Simon Leave a Comment

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 that they’ve gotten national attention. 
 
One part of Forkish’s arsenal is Auto-Tune, software with the ability to correct vocal flaws by processing the audio to make singers sound pitch-perfect. Producers also can create an assortment of effects. Last year, the Wall Street Journal devoted a story to how controversial the use of mechanized tricks had become. The article spotlighted the Harmonics’ use of Auto-Tune in live performances as a catalyst for debate about what should be considered authentic a cappella. 

Unusual instrument integrated into choral music concert

January 14, 2010 by Allen H Simon Leave a Comment

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 Porter St., Lemont, IL.

Broadway beckons for YouTube star chorister

January 14, 2010 by Allen H Simon Leave a Comment

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 it and invited Geraint to perform the same piece in a Martin Luther King Jr Day concert in the Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Centre on Broadway on Jan 18.
 

The Choral Cure

January 14, 2010 by Allen H Simon Leave a Comment

 
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 voices." In the future, he says, "someone will figure out how it works its magic in the brain."
 
Choral singing can measurably improve physical health. In a paper in the new issue of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, specialists identify half-a-dozen ways in which it can improve our mental health, from improving cognitive function to social confidence.

 

“Performance Today” Featured Composer Richard Toensing, Jan. 8, 2010

January 12, 2010 by Janet Braccio Leave a Comment

Performance Today on Jan 8, in its weekly feature of 21st century composers, included excerpts from the “Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ,” an Orthodox Christmas choral concerto, along with comments from its composer Richard Toensing. The “Kontakion” was performed by Cappella Romana, with conductor Alexander Lingas, St. Agatha’s Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon.
 
The program is archived and can be heard online. To listen, go to http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/, click on Program Archive, Jan 8, Hour 2.
 
Performance Today is carried by roughly 250 stations in the U.S. and territories, and has a weekly listenership of around 1.3 million.

New Tradition Chorus “Meet the Director Open House”–Jan. 18

January 12, 2010 by Joseph Schlesinger Leave a Comment

On January 18, 2010, the New Tradition Chorus (past international champions of the Barbershop Harmony Society) will host an open house during our regular rehearsal time–7:30-10:30 p.m.–designed to introduce our new Music Director, Bryan Harden, to the community. All are welcome to attend. Location is our regular meeting hall, St. Peter Community Church, 2700 Willow Road (just east of Pfingsten Road), Norhbrook, IL.

Bryan comes to the New Tradition Chorus with over 25 years of experience in the music industry, as both a performer and a director. He has previously directed EPCOT Center’s “The Voices of Liberty,” Disney’s premier a cappella ensemble, and has served as a vocal consultant for many other clients, including Disney Cruise Lines Entertainment, EPCOT Entertainment, Disney’s MGM Studios, and Warner Brothers Publishing. Bryan is also in frequent demand as a vocal clinician for companies such as Music in the Parks and Educational Programs Network. As a performer, Bryan has sung backup for acclaimed sacred artists such as Steve Green, Damaris Carbaugh, Cynthia Clawson, Ray Boltz, and Larnelle Harris. He also travels as a soloist with his own solo gospel CD entitled “Just As I Am.”

 
For more information, call Joseph Schlesinger at 773/935-0921, visit the New Tradition Chorus Web site ( http://www.newtraditon.org ), or, if you are a Facebook member, visit the open house event page ( http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=236359436554&index=1 ).
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