Chor Leoni Men’s Choir has released a 20th Anniversary Collection digital download card featuring two tracks from each of their CDs – a total of 24 tracks! The collection offers the perfect introduction to Founding Artistic Director Diane Loomer’s work with Vancouver’s singing lions and spans both the fun and the serious side of Chor […]
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Choral Caffeine: More Pitches
One has come to despise B-flat. An explanation is in order. Adjacent to one’s office at ACDA is a room containing all of the electrical switching equipment for the entire complex. One of the devices generates a continual B-flat drone. One. Long. Unending. Hellish. B. Flat. Drone. It’s like living inside a bagpipe. […]
Choral Caffeine: Works and Plays Well with Others
“Works and plays well with others . . . .” Thus goes the traditional first item on a kindergarten report card (one suspects that should be on EVERY report card, frankly). It’s really nothing new. We humans figured out that collaboration was a valuable still when we were still living in caves. As […]
Jake Runestad Wins 2013 Raabe Prize for Composition
Jake Runestad has been awarded the 2013 Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Music Composition from the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians for his choral composition Nada Te Turbe. About the Prize The Raabe Prize is awarded every two years for a single musical work, published or unpublished and written within the last five years, that […]
GUEST BLOG: “Why Choral Music is Vital to Today’s Youth” by Reilly Dougherty
WHY CHORAL MUSIC IS VITAL TO TODAY’S YOUTH by Reilly Dougherty The world today is changing at a swift pace. Every day we are advancing as a whole technologically, but as we progress in these areas, it seems that we are regressing in others to a point where personal human understanding is no longer prevalent. […]
The Boston Cecilia Announces New Music Director
The Boston Cecilia announces the appointment of Nicholas White as its new Music Director. He succeeds Donald Teeters who led the chorus from 1968 to 2012. White is a Grammy-nominated composer and conductor as well as organist, pianist, and singer with experience in many different styles of music. Born in London and educated at […]