By Gale Fiege ARLINGTON, WA — How does one pack up after teaching 35 years — an entire career — in one school? Arlington High School vocal music teacher Lyle Forde doesn’t know yet. He looks around the choir room, smiles and apologetically shakes his head. There are piles of music all over the floor, […]
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Charles Schisler, Emory Univ prof, former Dean of Westminster Choir College, dies
Inspired by the man who made a lasting difference in their lives and the life of their alma mater, the Westminster Choir College Class of 1971 is leading an initiative to establish the Dr. Charles H. Schisler Endowed Scholarship in memory of the former dean, who passed away on June 22. Earnings from the endowed […]
Indianapolis Children’s Choir Founder Leads International Premiere at Kennedy Center
On Tuesday, June 21, Henry Leck, Founder and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir conducted the premiere of a new major work written by Award winning Bulgarian composer Georgi Andreev. "Melancholy Beauty" written for adult choir, Bulgarian women's choir, Bulgarian folk instruments, children's choir, full orchestra, soloists and narrator, depicts the incredible story of […]
Rugby choir returns to the main stage
BY Charlotte Harper CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — They’re back. Due to popular demand, the Australian Rugby Choir will tonight, for the first time in eight years, take to the pitch at Canberra Stadium ahead of the players’ arrival on the ground. Some 30 choristers will belt out the official song, to the tune of […]
Why One London Choir has Become a Refuge for the Homeless
By Laura Lynch They gather every Monday evening in a converted church hall in a working class London neighbourhood. Men and women ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties with one thing in common: they know what it is like to have no home. Some, like Dean Johnson, ended up on the streets […]
The choir that saved our lives
By Amanda Cable YORK, SURREY, UK — At five am on February 12 this year, the most unlikely hit squad ever boarded a coach in Surrey on a secret mission which had been organised with military-style precision. Dressed in black, the gang consisted of 100 coiffured ladies and dapper gents from Farnham who set off […]