Choral Stream

This week, we present a special episode of Music with Minnesotans. Composer Dominick Argento, with poet Pat Solstad and music director Dale Warland, join Steve Staruch to chat about Argento's newest work, Seasons, which was premiered at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival this past summer.

Each week, American Public Media/Classical Minnesota Public Radio's Choral Initiative Manager, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, travels across the country building community through choral music.

A beautiful story about Dr. Anton Armstrong's contributions to the St. Olaf Choir over the past 25 years.

Listen to Classical MPR on April 3 at 10 a.m. for a Good Friday special: Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe leads a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Alison Young hosts the broadcast.

Bach requires much from his singers in his handful of motets. The South Dakota Chorale, led by Brian Schmidt, is a first-rate ensemble that is more than up to the challenge.

Each week, American Public Media/Classical Minnesota Public Radio's Choral Initiative Manager, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, travels across the country building community through choral music.

The Choral Stream will broadcast the Cappella Romana world premiere recording of Maximilian Steinberg's Passion Week on Good Friday at 2 p.m. CDT.

Here is an exclusive video of the Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota Children's Choral Festival. You definitely don't want to miss this video.

The American Spiritual Ensemble raises the roof from a performance given last February. (Actually, the roof hasn't really come down yet!)

Recently, in a first-year composition course I teach, our discussion veered into the timely topic of Ferguson, Missouri. The room was graveyard silent. None of us dared tread out into the world of deep conversation. We listened to the silence. After a moment, I rose and turned on Franz Biebl's 'Ave Maria.'