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Stay Tuned For YouTube Symphony, The Sequel
Matthew Westwood | From:The Australian LISTENING to classical music on the internet was for many years an awkward, even unpleasant experience. The sound was tinny and the music would lurch and sputter with digital drag: the curse of slow download times. Rock ‘n’ roll seemed a much better fit for this new medium, just [...]
Vaughan Williams’s Cambridge Mass world premiere
Alan Tongue conducted the premiere of A Cambridge Mass on 3 March 2011 A forgotten Vaughan Williams score will have its world premiere on Thursday. A Cambridge Mass, written when the composer was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, had been filed away in the University Library. Conductor Alan Tongue discovered the piece in 2007 [...]
UConn A Cappella Groups Recognized Among Nation’s Best
By: Colin Poitras source: UConn Today This story was first published on March 12, 2010. This week, during Thanksgiving break, in addition to any breaking news about the University, we are revisiting some previous posts, including both well read favorites and some content that was first published when our site was still new. Daily news [...]
VoiceBox – radio for singers
KALW in San Francisco has just started a new radio program called VoiceBox, airing on Friday nights from 10pm-11pm. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “The show, produced by singer and arts journalist Chloe Veltman, will cover the vocal music scene in the Bay Area as well as national and international artists. The Phyllis C. Wattis [...]
Choruses lead the way!
This is a fabulous clip from CBS Sunday Morning about the impact that singing in a chorus has on not just singers, but everyone in their community.
New Study Finds Positive Benefits of Choruses and Choral Singing for Children, Adults, and Communities
Washington, D.C.—If you enjoy singing with your neighbors, congregation, or classmates, you’re taking an increasingly popular path to a successful life. According to a new study by Chorus America, an estimated 32.5 million adults regularly sing in choruses today, up from 23.5 million estimated in 2003. And when children are included, there are 42.6 million [...]
Great Words about the Arts
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gave a free talk about the arts at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Beckett, Mass, in the Berkshires: “Sometimes we choose to serve our country in uniform, in war,” she said. “Sometimes in elected office. And those are the ways of serving our country that I think we are trained to easily [...]
Want to Rewire Your Brain? Study Music
An article by Lee Dye at ABC news tells musicians what we knew all along: that a musician’s brain recognizes sound that carries emotion. Literally, our brains are re-wired. From the article: All those hours practicing the piano pay off big time by biologically enhancing a person’s ability to quickly recognize and mentally process sounds [...]
A Great Day In Vernon
From the Journal Inquirer Published: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:09 PM EST On Sunday, Feb. 15, in Vernon, an extraordinary thing happened. A concert. A concert that became a meeting of hearts and minds.
Connecticut Opera Closes, Won’t Refund Tickets
The recent closing of Connecticut Opera is a tragedy that will be felt throughout the arts community in the entire state. At this time of economic instability, this is the latest reminder that we must find ways to reach beyond our own organizations to work together for the good of arts everywhere. Full article below.
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