By Emilie Richardson POLSON, MT — “He’s going to push you. He always picked songs that we could do, but not without a lot of work,” said Sam Kinzel, a senior at Polson High School, describing his former choir teacher, Mr. Bumgarner. Chris Bumgarner has been teaching music for a total of 30 years. With […]
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Obituary – Joyce Adams Curtis
OKLAHOMA CITY — Joyce Adams Curtis, admired choral director and member of the music faculty at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, died suddenly this past Wednesday, July 25, of congestive heart failure at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City. Born in Mooreland, on August 30, 1950, Joyce was the precocious younget daughter of Russell and Grace […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, July 29, 2012
This week’s show features a surfeit of English composers as we celebrate the Olympics. Please share our play lists with your students and associates. I am always happy to receive CDs of your choirs and will program sacred selections from them in the months and years ahead. You make a special contribution to this […]
Meredith Bowen: Battle Creek Girls Chorus
By Josh Holdenbaum BATTLE CREEK, MI — While one director is about to take her final bow as the head of two local choruses, she’s also getting ready for the next movement of her life. Meredith Bowen, director of both the Battle Creek Girls Chorus and Community Chorus, will step down from both at the […]
Profile: Eliot Wold, Univ Wisconsin – River Falls
By Ashley Hall RIVER FALLS, WS — For River Falls and for UW-River Falls, Elliot Wold seems to be both an inspiration and local icon for the community and UWRF alumni. Wold came to UWRF in 1963 and was the choir director there until 1998 when he retired at age 68. Since 1991 Elliot has […]
Keeping music alive in rural Washington
By John Dodge UNION, WA — Anna’s Bay Center for Music founder Matthew Blegen recalled the first time he put out the call to form a community choir consisting of residents around Union, a rural Mason County burg situated near the Great Bend in Hood Canal. “I had 18 people show up,” the classically trained […]