"DREAM LAND" on a poem by Christina Rossetti by Swiss/Italian composer Ivo Antognini East Carolina University Chamber Singers Dr. Andrew Crane, conductor Peace Presbyterian Church - Winterville NC - USA April 30th, 2013 ***WORLD PREMIERE***

"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

The 2012-2013 East Carolina University Chamber Singers performing "Angele Dei" by Susan LaBarr. Conducted by Dr. Andrew Crane at Peace Presbyterian Church, Winterville, NC.

“Birds of Paradise” Saturday March 28 - 8 PM - First Presbyterian Church, San Anselmo MARIN BAROQUE Daniel Canosa, Music Director Rosemary Beecher-Bryant, Daniel Pickens-Jones David Morris: Treble Viol Julie Jeffrey: Tenor Viol Lynn Tetenbau...  more“Birds of Paradise” Saturday March 28 - 8 PM - First Presbyterian Church, San Anselmo MARIN BAROQUE Daniel Canosa, Music Director Rosemary Beecher-Bryant, Daniel Pickens-Jones David Morris: Treble Viol Julie Jeffrey: Tenor Viol Lynn Tetenbaum: Bass Viol Peter Hallifax: Bass Viol Adam Cockerham: Vihuela, Baroque Guitar Peter Maund: Percussion Stephen Escher: Cornett, Recorder Richard Van Hessel: Alto and Tenor Sackbut, Recorder, Gittern Michael Cushing: Tenor Sackbut, Recorder Herbert W. Myers: Curtal, Shawm, Recorder Rosemary Beecher-Bryant, Joanna Dudley, Linda Price, Kristin Whitley: Sopranos Linda Allen, Betsy Levine-Proctor, Martha Rodriguez-Salazar, Jessica Winn: Altos Carl Boe, Mark Bonney, Samuel Faustine, Samuel Palmer: Tenors George Fencl, Raymond Martinez, Daniel Pickens-Jones, Ricky Torres-Cooban: Basses  less

"There will come soft rains" by Ivo Antognini ECU Chamber Singers - Andrew Crane, conductor Peace Presbyterian Church - Winterville NC - USA February 23rd, 2012 There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the groun...  more"There will come soft rains" by Ivo Antognini ECU Chamber Singers - Andrew Crane, conductor Peace Presbyterian Church - Winterville NC - USA February 23rd, 2012 There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone. Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)  less

Recorded live from AfterGlow's concert "Pandemic & Racism: What's Going On." Concert location: First Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA Date: August 7, 2022 Swen Ervin, Creative Director Arnold Lee, Music Director Video Direction: Omid Zoufonoun

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]Most singers join a Choir because they share the passion and vision of the Choir leader. Your Choir leader is the creative heart of your Choir and is what g...

Choir of the Earth is a digital Choir, which meets and rehearses online via YouTube. We unite people of all ages, geographies and backgrounds through singing - absolutely everybody is welcome to join our wonderful choral family! Our Founder and Dire...  moreChoir of the Earth is a digital Choir, which meets and rehearses online via YouTube. We unite people of all ages, geographies and backgrounds through singing - absolutely everybody is welcome to join our wonderful choral family! Our Founder and Director is Mark Strachan BEM, and our Musical Director is Ben England BEM. Please visit our website to find out more about our online choral family and our exciting past, current and future projects! Please check out our Greatest Hits playlist on YouTube. Please follow us on social media: on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  less

One of the beauties of Choir is that the message sung often cuts across cultures and international boundaries. A traveling Choir is one of the best ways to experience Choir, and some of the most famous in the world - such as the Monteverdi Choir - embark ...

The Berlin Girls‘ Choir is a Choir school with currently more than 200 singers aged from 5 to about 30 in 5 Choir classes. The Choir was founded in 1986 as part of the church music work at the Lutheran Lindenkirchengemeinde. The Berlin Girls‘ Choir has...  moreThe Berlin Girls‘ Choir is a Choir school with currently more than 200 singers aged from 5 to about 30 in 5 Choir classes. The Choir was founded in 1986 as part of the church music work at the Lutheran Lindenkirchengemeinde. The Berlin Girls‘ Choir has won many awards. It was most recently awarded the OPUS KLASSIK in 2021 for the music film „STIMMENÜBERLEBEN“ (Anne Frank: A Living Voice) and the „Kinderchorlandpreis“ of the Deutsche Chorjugend for very good children‘s Choir work. The Choir also won several first prizes at the German Choir Competition and at international competitions in Warsaw/Poland, Venice/Italy, Helsingborg/Sweden, Neerpelt/Belgium, the Harmony Festival in Limburg, the Johannes Brahms Festival in Wernigerode and the Vienna World Piece Choral Festival. The musical programme includes polyphonic literature for equal voices from the Renaissance to the modern age. Folk songs, secular and sacred pieces, sometimes also pop, are sung a capella, with piano accompaniment, chamber ensembles or orc...    less