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 […]
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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 […]
The choir that’s putting Welsh cancer patients on TV
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 […]
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 […]