The Wilson High School Scintillation Show Choir recently competed in the Anaheim Heritage Choral Festival, winning several awards including The Outstanding Choral Group trophy for the highest scoring choral group in any division, a Gold Award for receiving scores above 90 – out of 100 – from all three judges and The Maestro Vocal Solo Award was awarded to senior Ryan Fitzgerald.
The Wilson High School Scintillation Show Choir recently competed in the Anaheim Heritage Choral Festival, winning several awards including The Outstanding Choral Group trophy for the highest scoring choral group in any division, a Gold Award for receiving scores above 90 – out of 100 – from all three judges and The Maestro Vocal Solo Award was awarded to senior Ryan Fitzgerald.
The choir also performed at Disneyland while in California.
The choir of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Richland will present John Stainer's The Crucifixion, a choral meditation of the passion account, at 7 p.m. Friday. The free performance is an extended Passiontide cantata for chorus, organ, tenor and bass soloists.
Donations will be accepted.
The church is at 1322 Kimball Ave., Richland.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Billy Joel and Johnny Cash might not seem like the usual suspects on a choir concert program. But for the Northwest Repertory Singers, the eclectic combination they’ll sing at Tacoma’s Mason United Methodist Church on Saturday – along with popular a cappella quartet The Coats – is all part of getting back to their roots as a choir that sings all sorts of music and collaborates with other people.
The music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Billy Joel and Johnny Cash might not seem like the usual tunes for a concert choir. But for the Northwest Repertory Singers, the eclectic combination they’ll sing this weekend with popular a cappella quartet The Coats is all part of getting back to their roots as a choir that sings all sorts of music and collaborates with other people.
Fourteen student athletes will be honored today at the 17th annual Dick Nichols West Olympia Rotary Awards Luncheon.
The Boise Philharmonic gave a stunning and powerful performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 to a sold-out Morrison Center on Saturday. With slightly more than 300 musicians and vocalists on stage, it was as close as the orchestra can get to an "Ode to Joy" wall of sound.
The Ninth is one of those classical works that becomes a touchstone for audiences and orchestras. Like Gustav Mahler's Fifth, which the philharmonic aced in 2008, its epic quality also makes it a milestone.
For the Boise Philharmonic, its Master Chorale and the combined choirs of the College of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University, this was a spectacular achievement.
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