By Matt White ISLE OF WIGHT, UK — UNCERTAINTIES may re-main over the future of the IW Music Service but there can be no doubting the growing popularity and success of one spoke leading to the Island’s musical hub. Recent stories about the future of the IW Music Service have made gloomy reading but, […]
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Norman Children’s Chorus still going strong after 20 years
By Hannah Cruz NORMAN, OK — After starting as a dream to bring choral music to children in 1992, the Norman Children’s Chorus is still going strong. “I think it’s really an honor to have worked with all of these children all of these years and to be able to provide for them something […]
‘Dawn’ rises for two young musicians
By Ashley Archibald SANTA MONICA, CA — Those who filled the seats of the Broad Stage last week at the National Children’s Choir performance of “Journey of Song” expected to watch youth sing. They anticipated the cherubic voices of the performers in their early teens with some experience with the ensemble, and the nervous fidgeting […]
CALIFORNIA CHORUS HERALDS ITS 45th ANNIVERSARY WITH AN EXCITING COMMISSION FROM TED HEARNE
Palo Alto, California — In its 45th year, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus (PWC) has forged a partnership with up-and-coming New York City composer Ted Hearne to produce “Ripple”, an exciting new commission for treble voice choir. Martín Benvenuto, artistic director of the PWC, approached Hearne with the request to “…give us something challenging, something […]
Leipzig Celebrates Eight Centuries of “Thomana”
LEIPZIG — Music-lovers have long flocked to Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, renowned throughout the world as the place where Johann Sebastian Bach was at his most prolific. As cantor of the church’s school, theschola thomana, from 1723 until his death in 1750, Bach produced an immense quantity and variety of compositions for organ, piano, and voice, recognized as […]
Mother and Son combine choral forces
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS — Mary Elizabeth Sawyer and her son Richard C. Sawyer have a family tradition. Together, they have directed over four generations of singers as part of their collaborative effort with the Ocean Springs Chorale and Ocean Springs High School Choir. It is a blending of voices with ages ranging from 16 to 70. […]