On the Sunday before Christmas we continue with our presentation of music for Advent. Great Sacred Music airs each Sunday from 8-11 eastern om 89.7 fm in central Nrth Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org Happy Holidays! Rob ———————————————— 08:00:20 Traditional: O come, o come Emmanuel; Up, awake and away! All and some; ‘Twas […]
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My “Tenth” Lesson, of King’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
In 2004 while on sabbatical study leave in Cambridge, England, and thanks to the kindness of my faculty sponsors there, my family and I were able to attend the annual King's College Lessons and Carols service that takes place in the King's College Chapel on Christmas Eve. As the program states, "the service starts a […]
Braun saluted with Sask. Choral Federation award
REGINA, SK — Sheila Braun was presented with an award for “Outstanding community Service” by the Saskatchewan Choral Federation at the Saskatchewan Music Convention banquet held on Nov. 4 in Regina. She was nominated for this award by the members of the Swift Current Oratorio Choir which she has accompanied for 18 years. Accompanying the Oratorio […]
Choral performance at USF nominated for Grammy
By Kim Wilmath TAMPA — On cue, the nearly 50 booming voices stopped, leaving several seconds of absolute, eerie silence. Then came the downbeat, another cue, and up they roared again, filling the University of South Florida concert hall with song — Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, to be exact. The performance, recorded […]
Ouch! The truth hurts
This from an article titled the Choral Dirge – complaints about choir concerts. I agree with most of them: 1. Composers like to write tediously slow, earnest music. Most of the contemporary repertoire sounds like a dirge, with the same superficially complex harmonies borrowed from the Lauridsen and Whitacre cannons. There’s little rhythmicality and joy […]
Blogs that enrage (or inspire) us, part 2
This blog is the second part of a post I started yesterday. Since it is that time of the year when we take stock of our yearly efforts, I was interested in the blogs that inspired ChoralNet members to respond. This is what I found. As of December 13, 2011 there were thirty blogs […]