By: Katrina Styx HASTINGS, MN — We know they’re good. Hastings High School’s top show choir, Riverside Company, already has two Grand Champion wins under its belt this season. Apparently, producers at NBC think they’re pretty good, too. After seeing some of Riverside Company’s performances from previous years on YouTube, they invited the choir to […]
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Curtis Hansen, 1920-2011, founding member of ACDA
Curtis E. Hansen, age 90, of Edina, MN, passed away peacefully on January 31, 2011. As one of seven original founders of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in 1959, he was the only one remaining until his death. After graduation from Amery, WI High School and St. Olaf College (where he studied and sang with F. Melius Christiansen), he […]
Choral dept. helps others
SEYMOUR, TN — This year the Seymour High School Choral Department joined forces with other choirs to give back to the community. SHS performed with the choir from St. John’s Episcopal Church, Transformed (an interdenominational seminar and conversation group), and members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra to present “Handel’s Messiah” and Robert Shaw’s “The Many […]
Congressman sings tenor
GLENS FALLS, NY — Politicians took part in an impromptu mass choir at the Glens Falls Martin Luther King Jr. Day service in Glens Falls on Sunday evening, singing “Let Their Be Peace on Earth” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” By coincidence, I was standing next to U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, in the […]
New composer, new print publications
Please join RedHouse Arts in welcoming Dr. John Stallsmith to our growing team of choral composers. Dr. Stallsmith teaches music at Bevill State Community College in Jasper, Alabama. He is organist and choir director at the First United Methodist Church and organist at St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church of Jasper. Dr. Stallsmith is an active teacher, […]
Nuance
It is always a sunken-treasure-surprise to come across a jewell of the past, known only to a few, that now is available to everyone. I have experienced several such epiphanies, as new works by Bach, Handel, and recently, Vaughan Williams, are "discovered" and brought to light by the musical world. This has been my recent […]