The following text has first been pusblished on The INTERKULTUR Blog, "Personal reports" section.   By Marijan Milić (President of Croatian Music Society Čarobna frula, Conductor of Youth Choir Čarobna frula) When I saw on web The announcement...

PRAIRIE SPRING by Greg Bartholomew A setting for SAB Choir of The poem by Willa CaTher. With optional piano accompaniment. Recording by MatThew Curtis (Choral Tracks). Willa CaTher (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of fron...  morePRAIRIE SPRING by Greg Bartholomew A setting for SAB Choir of The poem by Willa CaTher. With optional piano accompaniment. Recording by MatThew Curtis (Choral Tracks). Willa CaTher (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of frontier life on The Great Plains. Prairie Spring was first published in 1913 as The prologue to The novel O Pioneers! Sheet music is available from J. W. Pepper: https://www.jwpepper.com/11208222.item PRAIRIE SPRING Evening and The flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, The growing weeds, The toiling horses, The tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like The wild roses, Singing like The larks over The plowed fields, Flashing like a star out of The twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its shar...    less

The octet "For God Commanded Angels" from Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah. Performed as a part of "Celestial Spring" by The Madison Choral Project, May 18th, 2013 at LuTher Memorial Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Albert Pinsonneault, Conductor.

North Mecklenburg Community Chorus (NMCC) is a fun and dynamic non-profit organization providing Choral performances and shows for any one who likes to sing. Anyone is welcome to join - no audition required. You just need to like to sing, make friends a...  moreNorth Mecklenburg Community Chorus (NMCC) is a fun and dynamic non-profit organization providing Choral performances and shows for any one who likes to sing. Anyone is welcome to join - no audition required. You just need to like to sing, make friends and have fun.  

Solo by Diana Whiteside. Originally an Eastern European pop song by The band 'Magazin' enrichened by The vocal cameo of Ezma Redzapova, 'Queen of The Gypsy's'. Google her life & work... it's worth it.... Gurt Winter Concert 2012 The Gurt Lush Choir debu...  moreSolo by Diana Whiteside. Originally an Eastern European pop song by The band 'Magazin' enrichened by The vocal cameo of Ezma Redzapova, 'Queen of The Gypsy's'. Google her life & work... it's worth it.... Gurt Winter Concert 2012 The Gurt Lush Choir debut Concert at The Colston Hall, with Bristol Male Voice Choir. Musical Directors, Sam Burns & Steve Daykin 300 Singers, 1500+ Audience. Several thousand raised for St Peters Hospice. Where were you? ;-)  

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

Taken during our residential rehearsal weekend at Loretto School. Photo by Gordon Smith