By Jay Harvey Singer-songwriter Josh Groban, who performs Tuesday at Conseco Fieldhouse, is expected to announce that the Indianapolis Children’s Choir will be among the first beneficiaries of his Find Your Light Foundation (in partnership with Americans for the Arts). The foundation is designed to assist fund-raising for nonprofit organizations located in and near cities […]
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New Rock Choir Film In the Works
Gemma Arterton is to star as the conductor of a ‘rock choir’ in a new British film co-starring Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp. The film called Song For Marion has been inspired by the surge in progressive community choirs around the country, spurred on by hit TV show Glee, and will feature music from […]
Longtime Wichita Falls choir director to be honored at Bass Hall concert
By Courtney Ortega WITCHITA FALLS, TX — There is a saying that goes, “To teach is to touch a life forever.” The former choir members of S.H. Rider High School in Wichita Falls have to look no further than their beloved director, Donald B. Cowan, to say they believe it. Cowan was the choir director […]
Former Manchester choirgirls recall ‘That Day We Sang’
By Ian Youngs MANCHESTER, UK — Victoria Wood is telling the story of a 1920s children’s choir in a stage show that will premiere at this year’s Manchester International Festival. In 1925, some 250 working class children from more than 50 schools across Manchester were recruited for a choir that would go down in musical […]
Music and lyrics and code: GEEK CHOIR
by Jenn Webb If the popularity of Geek Choir at various tech-related conferences is any indication, there’s a substantial correlation between producing music — whether vocally or with an instrument — and coding. Michael Brewer ((a)operatic), application programmer specialist at the University of Georgia and a speaker at OSCON 2011, got the official Geek Choir […]
Vandercook Lake Community Choir
Hi everyone, This choir has been founded and directed by Becky Oexler of Jackson, Michigan. The choir is designed to aid in benefiting others by holding fundraiser concerts. The music is not difficult and is primarily older, standards of a nostalgic nature. Local talent is also incorporated into each concert. For more information, please […]