This is The abridged version of "The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan)," a setting for mixed choir of excerpts from Kofi Annan's Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Performed by The Southwest Minnesota State University Chorale under Stephen Kingsbury.

PEKTORAL Chamber Choir (Kyiv). Art director - Andriy Karpinets. First live performance of Ariel Ramirez' composition ''Mass for Peace and Justice'' (Misa por la Paz y la Justicia) in Ukraine. Solo - Dmytro Foschanka. October 18, 2011. Church of St. Al...  morePEKTORAL Chamber Choir (Kyiv). Art director - Andriy Karpinets. First live performance of Ariel Ramirez' composition ''Mass for Peace and Justice'' (Misa por la Paz y la Justicia) in Ukraine. Solo - Dmytro Foschanka. October 18, 2011. Church of St. Alexander, Kiev, Ukraine. VI International Festival "THROUGH The CENTURIES AND The COUNTRY". With The assistance Embassy of Argentina in Ukraine. This video contains two pieces of The Mass: 1. Introducción y Señor ten piedad de nosotros. 2. Gloria a Dios. Argentine composer, pianist and music director Ariel Ramírez composed The Mass for Peace and Justice in 1981, during The military dictatorship in Argentina. His childhood friend, The presbytery Osvaldo Catena, assembled The texts, amongst which is The Peace message of Pope John Paul II of 1979. Our SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/pektoral-chamber-choir/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PektoralChoir.Ukraine  less

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This is The first of a series that originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise.    One of The interesting Things that happens when amateur musicians build Themselves a training infrastructure is that They bring an incredible breadth of skills...

Franz Schubert was a true Viennese - he was born, lived and worked in The city. No wonder that There are so many Things in Vienna commemorating this great composer - including our choir competition and festival. :) But what if we told you that The 34th In...

Psalm 117 for SSAA Chorus unaccompanied Music and Translation by Stanley M. Hoffman (2000) Performed by The Peace College Chamber Singers Raleigh, North Carolina James S. Smith, conductor Music and Translation: © Copyright 2001 by Ione Pres...  morePsalm 117 for SSAA Chorus unaccompanied Music and Translation by Stanley M. Hoffman (2000) Performed by The Peace College Chamber Singers Raleigh, North Carolina James S. Smith, conductor Music and Translation: © Copyright 2001 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission. ECS Publishing Catalog No. 5776 Recording: © Copyright by William Peace University Raleigh, North Carolina. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Justin G. Roy Vice President for Communications and Marketing William Peace University.  less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   Once upon a time you could only hear your favourite song if you travelled to a live performance. It was a special, one-off, shared experience.   ...

How does a W.A. Mozart’s majestic Requiem sound when sung by hundreds of singers? Find out at our next festival Laurea Mundi Budapest!   One of The most powerful Things is when many people are singing togeTher as one. This is what our Festiv...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From The Front of The Choir] With far fewer people around at The moment, I am starting to hear Things that I don’t normally notice. It made me realise that in our usually busy dail...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   A while back I wrote a post called Over-rehearsed or under-prepared: which is better? One of The comments got me thinking about Things that have gone wrong...