The heat has been brutal here at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, but the singing has been divine. This is one of those experiences that is difficult – if not truly impossible – to adequately describe in words. To try to report on any single facet of thie remarkable happening would be to do […]
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Epsom UK choir conductor says farewell after 22 years
By Hardeep Matharu EPSOM, SURREY — A choir has sung the praises of its conductor who has performed his last concert with them after 22 years. Michael Stevenson said farewell to the 35-strong Epsom Chamber Choir (ECC) on Friday, June 30. The conductor, who trained at the Trinity College of Music in London as a […]
World Choir Games: Singing janitor going for clean sweep
By Cliff Radel CINCINNATI — He keeps time with a short-handled broom and a long-handled dustpan. Sweep, sweep. The broom does its work. Tap, tap. The dust pan pats the restroom’s floor. The song begins. Ronald Greene, the singing janitor, slowly rolls out the words to an old gospel hymn. “There’s a leak in this old building […]
Global Village shows fun side of World Choir Games
By John Faherty CINCINNATI — Under an oppressive sun, a choir from China, the Shanghai Women Entrepeneurs Choir, was singing “The Rose,” sounding like an ethereal Bette Midler. Then singers representing the North Jersey Home School Association sang “Bonse Aba” a Zambian Christian worship song. All across Fountain Square, people chatted and smiled and ate […]
World Choir Games Begin
While the world's athletes prepare for competition at the Olympics in London, over three hundred choirs are gathering to compete in the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Ohio. The event launched on July 4 and will run through the 14th. This is the first time the World Choir Games have been held in the United […]
Andy Griffith, Youth Choir Director
By Mike Wilder BURLINGTON, NC — V and film star. Comedic story-teller. Gospel singer. Youth choir director in Burlington, N.C. Andy Griffith spent a small part of his early life here, directing church music, singing in the adult choir and giving voice lessons at First Christian Church, now First Christian United Church of Christ, while he […]