The musical spotlight in Latvia’s capital city shines on Halifax composer, pianist and organist Peter Togni this week. On Thursday evening in Riga’s St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, the Latvian Youth Choir Balsis will premiere his latest choral composition, Missa Liberationis. Togni is the only non-Latvian composer to be tagged for the international touring choir’s ambitious […]
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Music helps LaGrange teen work through disabilities
By Sarah Bradshaw LaGrange, NY — With his fingers pressed on a keyboard, Peter Muir stood before a holiday concert scene —layers of poinsettias, a twinkling Christmas tree and a choir of red sweater vests in the LaGrange Middle School auditorium. On the top choral riser, the shortest singer, 13-year-old LaGrange resident Niklas Watkins, stood angled […]
Military Wives’ single tunes into our highest ideals
By Malanie Phillips London, UK — Rarely has a song that’s hit the top of the charts provoked more tears and admiration than today’s runaway winner, Wherever You Are. This charity single is sung by the Military Wives Choir, the wives and girlfriends of British servicemen fighting in Afghanistan who were brought together by choirmaster […]
Cathedral Choral Society presents new Christmas carol
By DeNeen Brown Washington, DC — The director needs a little more “SSSSHHHH” and a little less “er” in “shepherd.” “The sound should be foreboding. SSSSHHHH is a sound in the English language that has power to silence a restless crowd. It’s SHHHepherd,” J. Reilly Lewis, music director of the Cathedral Choral Society, insists, as the […]
Stick Time: Musical Meaning in a Choral Rehearsal
In this brief excerpt from her interest session presented during the 2011 ACDA National Conference, Sandra Snow discusses the importance of understanding text and context within the music being sung by a choir.
Chorus Gives Voice to Those With Alzheimer’s
By Alan Mozes New York — Late December wouldn’t be the same without the uplifting sound of holiday choirs, but there’s a unique chorus in New York City, called “The Unforgettables,” that’s bringing new harmony to singers and audiences alike. That’s because the chorus’ 22 members include 11 men and women diagnosed with early to […]