Here’s A Close-Up Of Vocal Cords In Action, And It’s Not Weird At All
The video above is a close-up of the vocal cords of four voices singing the Kyrie from 16th-century Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria’s O magnum mysterium. Normally, we’d preface something like...
View ArticleThe Coltrane Choir
In 1964, saxophonist/composer John Coltrane and the members of his Classic Quartet (drummer Elvin Jones, bassist Jimmy Garrison and pianist McCoy Tyner) recorded A Love Supreme, an album that many...
View ArticlePrinceton, New Jersey
This week's From the Top, from Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the American Boychoir. You'll hear them perform all show long and also...
View ArticleChoral Americana
Today the Choral Mix offers a musical salute to the American spirit, with composers who have gone to the well of American folk and religious traditions and, in their own way, created something new and...
View ArticleListen: Cecilia Bartoli Just Became the First Woman to Perform in the Sistine...
The Vatican’s Sistine Chapel opened in 1483, and over the past few centuries it has seen quite a lot: Michelangelo painting its ceiling, dozens of papal conclaves and a teenage Mozart taking in the...
View Article'The Psalms Experience' Recap Program 11 and 12: Celebration of Life and the...
David Patrick Stearns: In the last two concerts of the psalms marathon, I felt the hidden challenges of putting on this festival. The 5 p.m. Saturday concert at Union Theological Seminary was by the...
View Article'The Psalms Experience' Recap Program 10: Pilgrimage of Life
A wandering organ introducing Norwegian composer Fartein Valen’s setting of Psalm 121 began the music of the tenth program in the Psalms Experience series. The curious keyboard gave way to an at time...
View Article'The Psalms Experience' Recap Program 9: Security and Trust
The ninth concert of the Psalms Experience revolved around a theme of “security and trust.” As Esther J. Hamori (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Union Theological Seminary) pointed out in her...
View Article'The Psalms Experience' Recap Program 8: Lamentation
James Bennett: Hi! Laments! They're metal as heck: Vanessa Ague: amazingJB: So Psalms 8 was all about laments, cool.Thematically, it was appropriate to group with abandonment, but the sound of this...
View Article'The Psalms Experience' Recap Program 7: Abandonment
Vanessa Ague: It was a wonderful concert, and probably the most musically variant of the ones I saw, at least. What were your highlights and thoughts?James Bennett II: Hah, all of them? Here were some...
View ArticleRecap Blog: 10 Days of 'The Psalms Experience' at Lincoln Center’s White...
During the 10 days of The Psalms Experience, presented by Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, WQXR bloggers will be chatting about their experiences at each night's concert. Check back here for...
View ArticleWhen Haydn Almost Went Under the Knife to "Save" His Voice
In 1738, Georg Reutter had just become Kapellmeister of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and was immediately sent on a business trip. The mission: find and recruit talented boys who could be brought back to...
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Watch: Tyler Clementi Remembered With Moving 'Tyler's Suite'
On Sunday, June 4, Tyler’s Suite received its Lincoln Center premiere. The work, originally written for male chorus, piano and violin, was spearheaded by the creative leadership of the San Francisco...
View ArticleDid You Know That Barber Arranged His 'Adagio' for Chorus? Give It a Listen
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings is filled with beauty and sadness. Seven years after the conductor Arturo Toscanini premiered the work in 1938, it was played on radio stations across the country to...
View ArticleThe Return of Choral Music
In an era of social media and things like immersive, interactive theater and arts, let’s remember the original interactive pastime: singing together. Choral music, once relegated to churches, amateur...
View ArticleTed Hearne and The Crossing's 'Sound From the Bench'
These days, I find that I either want to engage with the news directly, getting a serious rage buzz on, or disengage completely by staring at photos of International Space Station repairs on the NASA...
View ArticleFinding Bach's Passion
On Good Friday 1731, congregants settled into Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church anticipating the performance of a new Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. Seven years before, in 1724, Bach had composed the St....
View ArticleCarl Sagan Set to Choral Music is the Coolest Video You'll See Today
Music and science have long enjoyed a close relationship. Scientists like the astronomer William Herschel and physicist Albert Einstein were no strangers to the oboe and violin, respectively; and Neil...
View ArticleThis Serene Arrangement of Whitacre's 'Alleluia' is Pure Stress Relief
In addition to his chiseled jawline and flaxen locks, dreamboat conductor Eric Whitacre is best known for his ethereal choral compositions. Works like the The Seal Lullaby have made him a go-to for...
View ArticlePower of Vocal Music Unites Hundreds of New Yorkers in Song
“At the time your and our politics are so fractured, when the world is such a terrible place, anything that lets thousands of people make new friends, brings all communities together, must strengthen...
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