The Lee University Festival Choir has been invited to perform at the 2013 Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C. in January. Sen. Lamar Alexander informed the school Thursday at a special ceremony. “We do not yet know who will be inaugurated president in January,” Alexander said in a press release Thursday, “but we do know who will […]
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Creating a Positive Culture in your choir – I
This will be a short series about the idea of creating a “culture” in your choir. From an earlier comment response by Joshua Bronfman, I suspect he’ll be writing about some similar ideas! I’ve thought about this a lot over the years. By “culture,” I mean those things about the way the choir […]
Stick Time: Specialized Choirs
Most of us don’t have to opportunity to design our choral ensembles to fit the demands of a particular repertoire. We have to cook with what we have, so to speak. There are, however, a small number of choral conductors who are able to function as specialists, leading ensembles that perform a very tightly […]
PA choirmaster composes requiem for parents
By Dona S. Dreeland ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA — The requiem Mass that Doug Starr, adjunct instructor in music at the Penn State New Kensington campus, will compose will be a work of the soul as he honors his deceased parents. His father died 20 years ago; his mother, almost 10 years ago. The Rev. Halton […]
Workshop teacher sparks choir diversity
By Lana Sweeten-Shults WICHITA FALLS, TX — Singing a song is more than singing a song. You have to feel the song. You have to know it. Andre J. Thomas, choral clinician and pedagogue, wanted the 80 or so choir members in an all-day workshop Saturday at First Presbyterian Church to really get to know the […]
Choir to tackle ‘Alzheimer’s Stories’
By Marylynne Pitz Pittsburgh — Composer Robert S. Cohen has tackled plenty of difficult themes, including eternity, homeland security and the biblical story of creation. Still, when an Eastern Pennsylvania arts group commissioned him to write a choral work about Alzheimer’s patients, the task felt daunting, even though Mr. Cohen had watched his stepmother suffer with […]