NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute recently announced the four choruses selected for its 2013 National High School Choral Festival (NHSCF), a one-of-a-kind program culminating in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and world-renowned conductor John Nelson on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Below, conductor Kevin Coker of Blue Valley […]
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Student to conduct session at state convention
By Christina Lane GLADEWATER, TX — Gladewater’s Brent Hetherington is one of 18 student conductors chosen for the annual Texas Choral Director’s Association Convention to be held in July. “This caught me by surprise because I thought my chance of being chosen had long since passed,” Hetherington said. “Receiving the notification that I had […]
Sneak Peak at Atlanta Sacred Chorale’s 28th Annual Concert Series
Atlanta Sacred Chorale has published a sneak preview of their 2012-2013 concert season! Highlights of the 2011-2012 Concert Series: 3rd annual Season Premiere concert on October 13, 2012, entitled “It’s About Time” Scheduling of TWO performances of Christmas program: an evening concert on December 15, 2012, plus a matinee on December 16, 2012! Special Guest Artist for the […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, June 24, 2012
Music from the Mexican and Bolivian Baroque this week. Scholars are just beginning to analyze and publish the music from the cathedral libraries all over Latin America. It seems that the Spaniards imported entire episcopal and arch-episcopal staffs including composers and performers after they seized control of Central and South America. They built grand cathedrals […]
Volunteer devotes 52 years to service
By Rimsie McConiga LEAVENWORTH, KS — How long have you been volunteering for this program and what have been your greatest accomplishments in leading the choirs over the years? In 1960, we formed a children’s choir. My husband’s mother was the organist for the 8 a.m. Mass and around 1970 she became ill and couldn’t […]
Chorus America reflections
I didn’t get to go to Chorus America last week, but Frank Oteri did, and he blogged about it: Directors of choruses are frequently composers themselves, and composers and new music—even when not front and center—has played a role in about every session of this conference I had ever attended. But ACF’s construction of […]