choir

They disagree about a lot, but these singers figure out how to stay in harmony

6:00am November 18, 2024

Members of the North Fork Community Choir in Paonia, Colo., aim to set aside their opinions on big topics when they sing. When differences arise, they figure out creative solutions to stay in harmony.

With a new orchestral album, Louis Cole pulls magic out of the air

5:00am August 15, 2024

Louis Cole is a prolific musician known primarily as a drummer, but whose music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now he's in a whole new space.

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Ragsdale High School choir students pose with their teacher

Education

Ragsdale High School choir students to perform at Carnegie Hall this summer

10:36am April 04, 2024

by Amy Diaz

Forty choir students from Guilford County will be performing at New York City's renowned Carnegie Hall this summer. The Ragsdale high schoolers say they think the experience will change their lives.

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Regensburg Cathedral, where the Regensburger Domspatzen choir performs, on July 14, 2021.

Struggling with its past, Germany's 1,000-year-old choir admits girls for the 1st time

1:34pm September 15, 2022

by Rob Schmitz

Since its founding over 1,000 years ago, this Catholic music school and song group in Regensburg, Germany, has been boys only. Until now.

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The Skagit Valley Chorale in Washington held a rehearsal in early March of 2020 that became a superspreader event for COVID-19.

After Its Superspreader Rehearsal, A Community Choir Struggles To Sing Together Again

1:37pm May 30, 2021

by Clare McGrane

A Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal early last year became a deadly COVID-19 superspreader event. Now, the group is figuring out how to come back together and reforge the bonds of a community choir.

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The Shout at Cancer choir, pictured above in 2018, is featured in Bill Brummel's new documentary, Can You Hear My Voice?

In The 'Shout At Cancer Choir,' No Voice Boxes Needed To Sing Out

3:45pm May 03, 2021

by Stephanie O'Neill

All the singers in this U.K. choir have undergone laryngectomies — voice box removal — to treat cancer. Singing builds lung strength, and performing together builds confidence, choir members say.

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Tim Shantz conducts Luminous Voices' first car concert on Oct. 4, 2020.

Car Concerts Offer Choirs A Way To Rehearse And Perform

10:51am January 11, 2021

by Nina Kravinsky

This car choir solution is one that accomplished baritone David Newman came up with so that ensembles could sing "together." The method uses microphones, a mixer, an FM transmitter and car radios.

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Camden Catholic High School's virtual choir sings "I Am With You Always," led by music director Greg Gardner.

The Beat Goes On: High School Choirs Improvise In The Age Of Coronavirus

10:32am April 06, 2020

by Sequoia Carrillo

After cancelled musicals and spring concerts, choral directors across the country are going the extra mile to have their students' voices heard.

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Human Interest

Chapter 5: All The Children

6:00am December 07, 2018

by David Ford

On an early morning in May, a kitchen fire swept through a low-income apartment in Greensboro. Inside, a refugee family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—five young siblings and their father—slept.

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