The Harmonium Choral Society, a community chorus based in Morristown, New Jersey, returned in July from its third European tour with ACFEA. Having ventured to Italy on its first tour and Spain and Portugal on it second, Harmonium decided to go a bit further afield to Greece and Turkey. The tour began in Athens, followed by a visit to the […]
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A huge congratulations to Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) on receiving the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. This is our nation’s highest honor for a youth arts organization. Executive Director David C. Howse and singer Amber Rodriguez traveled to the White House on November 22 to receive the
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When thinking about taking his choir from Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, abroad, Director of Music Jimmy Jones really had his eye on one thing: the prestigious cathedrals of England. “When Emily [Frye, ACFEA Tour Manager] and I ‘dreamed’ about the tour, I named my top places to sing, and we were able
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by Amanda Bauman If you ask me what is the best part of being an ACFEA Tour Manager, I’d say it’s not knowing what might happen next. I never know which group is going to be on the other end of the telephone when it rings, or what kind of project they have in mind. And never know where that telephone
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ACFEA arranges dozens of tours each year to far-off lands the world over, but every now and again an experience near to home can bring you close to bliss. One such event that I’ll remember forever happened during the summer of 2010. We’d worked with the Boston Children’s Chorus on a couple of international tours,
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The tour season is in full swing, and we’re busy buzzing around the country – and the world – making sure all our tours are going smoothly. But we wanted to send out some well-deserved congratulations to some groups who have had particularly notable tours recently. Our congratulations to: Sharon Paul and the University of
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The University of Oregon Chamber Choir, directed by Dr. Sharon Paul, is no stranger to international choral competitions. In 2011, they competed at the International Choral Festival in Tallinn and did very well, winning the top spot in two categories. For 2013, they wanted to see if they could repeat their success at the
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In the fall of 2010, Singing City, directed by Jeff Brillhart, began the process of planning its next tour, slated for July of 2012. After weighing a few options, the choir fixed its eyes and hearts on the Balkans (including Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro). To understand the motivation and complexity of the decision to
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An interview with Stephen Sano, chair of the music department at Stanford University. In June, he took the Stanford Chamber Chorale and Taiko Ensemble on a tour of the United Kingdom. What was unique about touring with two very different ensembles?Logistics was the biggest challenge, since none of the performance events between the two groups overlapped. We planned carefully for
When we asked then artistic director Ryan Brandau for a few quotations to include with the article we were writing about Santa Clara Chorale’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina, he took the ball and ran with it. We love it when directors give feedback, and it doesn’t get much better than this: The trip crescendoed
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