PORTLAND, OR — The University of Portland community is mourning the loss of Roger O. Doyle, a colorful and beloved professor of music at the University of Portland for nearly forty years and cheerful sturdy pillar of the music community in Portland, who died Monday, April 30 of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS, “Lou […]
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Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer Among 2012 Creative Bravos! Honorees
In March 2012, Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer was honored with one of Creative Albuquerque’s Bravos! Awards, recognizing artisitc innovation, entrepreneurship, and community impact. Greer was appointed Quintessence’s Artistic Director in 2009. Since 2003, Greer has served as Director of Music and Worship Arts at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, where he directs […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, May 6, 2012
Of interest on Great Sacred Music this Sunday is Mattins as it might be sung in an English cathedral. That’s in the first half hour. Then Heinrich Franz Biber’s monumental 53 voice Salzburg Mass airs at approximately 9:40 a.m. eastern. The show airs each Sunday at 8 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in central […]
Victory in Verona
By Jessica Leigh Lobos SAVANNAH — They came, they sang, they conquered. After months of practice and fundraising, the Savannah Children’s Choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale, held in Italy last month. Also known as “The Days of International Song,” the competition takes place every April in the […]
Zipcar/Ford Grants $25K to UCLA Choral Outreach Program
LOS ANGELES — Last week, Zipcar and Ford Motor Company announced the conclusion of the first year of their grant programme – Students with Drive. The companies donated a total $300,000 to student organisations at universities across the US. Choral Activities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) was recognised last Monday as the grand […]
At Carnegie Hall, Setting the Stage for Bright Futures
By Spencer Lloyd NEW YORK — My students’ faces lit up as we rounded the corner into Times Square. The ManualAires, an auditioned choir from Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis, had come to New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall. If the reality had not yet sunk in for these Midwestern high school […]