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The charitable purpose of the society is the promotion of the public education in the art and science of Choral music by the presentation of public concerts and recitals. [34] The choir achieves this by staging several performances a year around London and Europe, participating in music festivals and commissioning music.
Both Giuseppe Verdi [3] and Antonín Dvořák conducted the choir in premières of their own works, as have Edward Roxborough, Ariel Ramírez, Raymond Premru and Geoffrey Burgon in more recent years. The choir continued to be conducted by the most eminent musicians of the day, most notably Sir Malcolm Sargent , whose association with the choir ...
The Paris Choral Society (or PCS) is an auditioned amateur choir based at the American Cathedral in Paris, France. The PCS is incorporated as a voluntary association under French law as an Association loi de 1901, and is made up of 100 singers of different nationalities [1] dedicated to the performance of choral masterpieces. Three concerts are ...
A virtual choir, online choir or home choir is a choir whose members do not meet physically but who work together online from separate places. Some choirs just sing for the joy of the shared experience, while others record their parts alone and send their digital recordings, sometimes including video, to be collated into a choral performance.
The local Amateur Musical Society was founded in 1864 and run by H W Ibbotson (a local solicitor), having developed from a singing class he initiated in 1857. [2] From 1935, the recently built Sheffield City Hall became the home of an annual series of concerts, which were to be organised by the Amateur Musical Society.
A musician and composer, he is beloved for his original songs, many of which depict the traditional way of life of Cape Breton coal miners and fishermen. His compositions are popular with both professional and amateur choirs, notably his "Song for the Mira", considered a classic and translated into several languages.
A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-liturgical sacred text, [1] written or arranged for several vocal parts. Part songs are commonly sung by an SATB choir, but sometimes for an all-male or all-female ensemble. [ 2 ]
Stockholm Academic Male Chorus (Swedish: Stockholms Studentsångarförbund) is a Swedish amateur choir, which was founded in 1905. Today, the choir is one of Sweden's top male choirs. [citation needed] The choir has produced many recordings. The CD Välkommen till våren made Audiophile Audition's Best Of The Year Discs list for 2003. [1]