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This year, for the July 12-16 festival, 18 foreign and U.S. choirs will give free concerts in recital and concert halls, in school auditoriums, in the town's mall and even on street corners. The final evening brings all the choirs together, many of them in their national costumes, to perform at the 8,000-seat university field house. This year there is a newly commissioned work for orchestra and a massed choir of 800 that is set to text from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The composer is William McGlaughlin, former music director of the Kansas City...
...Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, knows the musical offerings of Harvard well. Graduating cum laude in history and literature of Russia, Jackson began to pursue his musical interest more intensively at Harvard. Although he had been playing the piano since he was four and had sung in the choir at his prep school, Jackson's parents discouraged him from pursuing a career in music. He explains, "It was a long time ago. There simply were no African-Americans in the classical music arena." He found Harvard to be a place "where you dream your dreams and act on it." With...
...groups with music from two very different centuries. Likewise, Ben's musical background is quite diverse. He began playing the piano at five and within a few years picked up the violin. The Jacksons lived in Britain for several years and in elementary school, Ben sang with the boys choir at his school. Moving to Dayton, Ohio, in 1991, Ben continued his musical interests by playing in youth orchestras and in high school he became involved with in show choir...
...Before Emmy won the title of Miss Massachusetts in 1998, she had a childhood of modeling for television and print. An avid performer, Emmy auditioned for a childrenis modeling and talent agency after soloing in a church choir. After turning down her first offer, Emmy began to climb through the ranks of modeling. iI was offered a contract, but Mom and Dad said no. I think the phrase echild modeli conjured up some scary images for them, and they were very against my having a Jon Benet Ramsey kind of life.i...
...addition to Jackson, the program featured gospel music by the church choir as well as singers from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...