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Chorus America awarded the University of Minnesota's director of choral activities, Kathy Saltzman Romey, its Distinguished Service Award for 2021. The award follows her 30 years of work with the school, as well as her deep involvement with the Minnesota choral community.

Women from Iraq's Yazidi minority get together to perform centuries-old sacred songs. They've survived captivity by ISIS and loved ones' deaths. "They are trying to heal," says a Yazidi politician.

Listen as Lumina performs three rare, early-American hymns during a recent recording session at Central Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul.

Two Minnesotans -- Kyle Pederson and Brian Newhouse -- are the first winners of the Genesis Prize, a competition for choral compositions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that will culminate in a world premiere concert on March 17.

A request from two avid Saturday Cinema fans, Rick Halvorson and Jeffrey Kern of Philadelphia's University of the Arts and Philly Pops. Great epic film scores that include choirs. The Lion in Winter, The Mission, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan.

The gospel trailblazer and his powerhouse choir close out Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration with a moving performance from his studio in Arlington, Texas.

Minnetonka high school senior Eli Hooker Reese entered a composing competition for the King's Singers with no expectations. On Sunday, his winning composition will be featured alongside three others for the King's Singers New Music Prize Concert.

Watch as Voces8 presents a gorgeous performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's 'Bogoroditse Devo' from their concert with the STMA Choirs last year.

For more than 100 years, 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' has been known as the Black National Anthem. But Congressman James Clyburn believes it's time for it to be honored as the official National Hymn.