By Kristie McCrum CARDIFF, WALES — Creating a choir for cancer patients might sound depressing. After all, whether they’re newly diagnosed, undergoing treatment, or in remission, they are people whose lives have been changed dramatically by a disease which affects almost 20,000 new people in Wales each year. But The Big C Choir is not only […]
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CJ Replay: U.S Choirs Viewed from England
(From the Choral Journal article “An Englishman’s View of North American Youth and Children’s Choirs” by Malcolm Goldring) The first thing I would say is that, to a foreigner, you take your choral singing seriously. You may think that this is a strange thing to say, considering our vaunted cathedral choral schools, but […]
Profile: London Community Gospel Choir
By Marcia Dixon LONDON, UK — WHO WOULD have thought that when the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) was formed amidst controversy in 1982, it would still be in existence spreading a gospel message through music thirty years later? Co-founded by Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and Bazil Meade, LCGC was Britain’s first black community gospel choir […]
Choir inspires charity fund-raising campaign
GORING, UK — A CAMPAIGN inspired by the fund-raising success of Goring Chamber Choir will be launched this Christmas. Sing for Sue comes after the choir raised £1,000 for Sue Ryder hospice in Nettlebed from singing events last December. The choir decided to support the charity after one of its members, Bob Fay, was cared for […]
Profile: Joel Snider, Battle Creek Boychoir and Girls Chorus
By Koty Neelis BATTLE CREEK, MI — Making music has always been a part of Joel Snyder’s life. The Detroit native spent his childhood singing with his family in the church. His father, a Baptist minister, played the classical guitar and trombone while his mother played the piano. “We would put on concerts of a cappella […]
Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery Choir tours USA
By Kathy Lally WASHONGTON, DC — The Sretensky Monastery was founded more than 600 years ago in honor of Moscow’s miraculous deliverance from invasion by Tamerlane. The Bolsheviks closed it in 1925, and the secret police used its grounds as an execution yard during the years of Stalinist terror. Little wonder that its choir sings […]