Tim Sharp, ACDA Join thousands of choirs around the world as we join together in the celebration of World Choral Day on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Millions of singers across the globe have been involved in World Choral Day concerts, festivals, sing-alongs, choral seminars, Days of Friendship and other events that celebrate our unity in […]
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Hallelujah mash-up
450 choirs from the UK registered to sing Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus as part of a project called “Sing Hallelujah”, sponsored by the BBC and the English National Opera as a classical-music promotion. As part of the publicity, BBC’s Radio 3 created this mash-up of dozens of different choirs singing the piece: I love the […]
Italian Choral Conductor Commutes to England
LANCASHIRE, UK — A conductor who commutes from Bologna to Preston each week to lead a choir has said there are “more opportunities” for choral music in Lancashire. Marco Fanti, 34, became conductor and director of the Preston Cecilian Choral Society in September. He now makes a 2,000 mile (3,200km) round trip each […]
Celebrating half-century of musical inspiration
Organist, choir director at Belmont church has endowment established in her honor BOSTON — Like a lot of ambitious young New York musicians, Avery Griffin dabbles in a bit of everything, from singing during the holidays with the St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Choir to writing experimental music. If not for the choir director […]
Polifonia.info – The choral social network
Polifonia.info (www.polifonia.info) is a Social Network Web site that came to live on the 12th of November 2011, and it will be running in “beta testing” until the 31st of December 2011. The idea behind Polifonia.info is to bring together people passionate about choir music. Through Polifonia.info, members will be able to find (and/or invite) […]
Making it Small
Last summer, I found myself dealing with the travel challenge of going half way around the world for a choral event, only to need to travel even further away for each succeeding event. It became apparent I would be traveling more if I came back home between destinations, than if I just kept traveling east. The solution resulted in my […]