The Terra Community College Choral Society is soliciting nominations for the Distinguished Choral Leadership Award. The award is presented each spring to a person who has served as an influence and helped promote choral singing in Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky and Seneca counties. Past recipients have included choir directors of high schools, churches, community music […]
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Seraphic Fire spreads song through schools
By Howard Cohen Last year, Seraphic Fire created the Miami Choral Academy, a network of choirs in four of Miami’s inner-city schools. The kids are not only finding their voice, but doing better in school. Here, Director Shawn Crouch teaches students at North Miami’ Ashley Mobley loves Hannah Montana, but that was before she met […]
Pay Us and We Might Give You a Prize
I'm slightly aware of this rather common practice: 1. sponsoring a composition competition 2. requiring fee from the composer 3. cash from the composers is given to the competition winner as the "prize" – or it helps fund their organization I'm not a composer, so I don't see this sort of thing much, […]
Choral director honored as Educator of the Year
By Carol Harris GILROY, CA — With holiday decorations setting the mood, festive foods and glorious singing by the Gilroy High School Chamber Choir Carolers, the Gilroy Arts Alliance presented its annual “Angel of the Year Awards” Dec. 7 at the Interim Center for the Arts. Honored at the event were Arline Silva and Allstate […]
Chorus a bridge to love for Oak Park couple
OAK PARK, IL — It’s unlikely that Yvonne and Rich Brode’s paths would have crossed outside of the Community Renewal Chorus. Just over 40 years ago, Oak Park/River Forest composer Harriet Zieganhals founded a unique vocal group, the Community Renewal Chorus and its companion children’s choir, All God’s Children. At a time of massive community […]
“It’s something that makes you sit up.”
I found this great story about singing and science at the Episcopal Cafe – how “science can now tell what it is about the voices of young choiristers that gives us goosebumps. It can tell us how they produce the sound, and how it could be artificially recreated.”: More from the website: “The hypothesis […]