The Concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under The patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During The performance we heard Choral arrangements of...  moreThe Concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under The patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During The performance we heard Choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from The musical West Side Story that graced The walls of The Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque musical artistic creations. Jazz musicians performed along with The Choir, and The musical effects were accompanied by a unique lighting arrangement, which required appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by The Academic Choir of The Gdańsk University of Technology, conducted by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompanied by musicians from The Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, ended with joint singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less

With The name, BUMC Jazz Choir started out in 1994 and started singing songs a cappella in 2001 and achieved to be The first Turkish a cappella jazz Choir. BUMC Jazz Choir 2008 members, The winners of The IKSV Young Jazz 2008, who have boosted Their s...  moreWith The name, BUMC Jazz Choir started out in 1994 and started singing songs a cappella in 2001 and achieved to be The first Turkish a cappella jazz Choir. BUMC Jazz Choir 2008 members, The winners of The IKSV Young Jazz 2008, who have boosted Their success by attending to The most prestigious a cappella contest in The world, 'Vokal Total', in both pop and jazz categories and won 2 'Silver Diplom's and also have sung many times in many festivals such as The 15th International Istanbul Jazz Festival and The Akbank 18th Jazz Festival. They also gave special Concerts with Sertab Erener (ESC 2003 winner). The group carries on with Their professional musical careers under The name “Istanbul Essence”. In July 2010, Boğaziçi Jazz Choir returned back to Turkey with 1 second prize, 2 third prizes and 3 gold diplomas from The 'WORLD Choir GAMES' in China which is being shown as The biggest and The most prestigious Choral music event, being held with nearly 40000 participations from 90 countries. Since Febr...    less

"evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from The Book of Genesis 1. Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by The Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth Willer. ...  more"evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from The Book of Genesis 1. Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by The Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth Willer. The composer writes: "I wanted to make a piece about The creation story but I didn't want to highlight one religion's or culture's narrative over anoTher." "It was important for me to try to find something universal, something present in all stories, or common to all cultures. I hit upon The idea of making a kind of checklist of everything that needed to be created to get The world to this point, without each individual culture's stories or myths or exoticisms. I went back to The first chapter of Genesis, to see what I could get out of my own culture's story, and I stripped away all The descriptions, adjectives, connectors and motivators. All that is left of Genesis in my text are The nouns, leaving a dispassionate list of everything created, in The order in ...    less

Kantorei Choral Ensemble in rehearsal. Tristis Est Anima Mea by Juan Gutierrez de Padilla. www.kantoreikc.org

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[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   For those of us who work to School terms, it is now The summer holidays. Unlike us poor folk here in The UK, The summer break is months long i...