This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
Along with Classical MPR's Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, The Current's Production Manager Derrick Stevens lent his skills and stories to a rehearsal of the vocal-music students at the FAIR School in Minneapolis.
Tuesday night on NBC's 'The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,' house band The Roots led Fallon along with 'Star Wars' cast members Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, Lupita Nyong'o, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, for an a cappella tribute to the films' music.
Each week, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu and Julie Amacher share a choral music story from around the country. This week, they share interviews and performances from U.S. choirs that were nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Choral Performance category.
Hear a deceptive take on the winter blues by way of a versatile choir, a young New York composer and a 150-year-old poem by Longfellow.
Listen Thursday, Dec. 10, at 11 a.m., for a Christmas with Cantus special, broadcast live from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.
Each week, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu and Julie Amacher share a choral music story from around the country. This week, they share surprising data on choral singing and highlight an extraordinary professional female choral ensemble.
On Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at 1 p.m. Central, the Memorial Concert for Sir David Willcocks will air on our Choral Stream. Willcocks, who died in September at age 95, was one of the great choral directors of King's College, Cambridge. Classical host Michael Barone reflects on the life and music of Willcocks.
Each week, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu and Julie Amacher share a choral music story from around the country. This week, they share a story about the celebration of male singing across the midwest and beyond.
Each week, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu and Julie Amacher share a choral music story from around the country. This week, they share a moving story about how music provided a connection between a son, and his father who was battling, and eventually succumbed to dementia.
Jonathan Talberg, director of the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir at California State University, Long Beach, led his choir in song at a vigil for CSULB student Nohemi Gonzalez, who died in the Paris terror attacks. Afterwards, Talberg was inspired to record a performance of Minneapolis composer Jake Runestad's 'Let My Love Be Heard.'
This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
