Music and sadness is an endless and much too studied subject. Does sad music make us feel better by first making us feel worse, like, say, having a tooth pulled? Or do we feel better simply because we ...

In a season when the public is seeking spiritual solace where it once quested after passive pleasures, choral music has become a hot ticket, not least because of the Bay Area's pride in and nurturing ...

George Gregory Hobbs conducted the Highland Park Chorale and Orchestra, with soloists (front, left to right) NaGuanda Nobles (soprano). Roderick George (tenor), Alissa Anderson (contralto) and Kevin ...

NJ State Opera's Artistic Director Jason Tramm, at the podium as Music Director for the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, will conduct the Great Auditorium Choir and Orchestra in Antonín Dvorák's ...

The Dvorak Stabat Mater turned out to be the final recording made by the beloved dean of American choral directors, Robert Shaw, who taped it in Atlanta in November 1998, two months before his death, ...

Angeles Chorale continues its 40th anniversary season with a performance of Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater” during “The Gala: An Evening to Celebrate” on March 29 at Pasadena’s Lake Avenue Church. Artistic ...

Dvorak’s moving and personal “Stabat Mater,” a piece rarely heard in concert, will be presented Saturday night at the Berkshire Choral Festival. The festival gives its performances on the campus of ...

Saturday and Sunday, The Boulder Chorale and Boulder Symphony will come together for the first time in nearly a decade to perform a religious cantata, dating back to 1877, that doesn’t often grace ...

Brian Middleton has a deep, mellifluous laugh, just the kind one would expect from a man who sings bass in a choir. It ranges from a rolling chuckle to an almost aria-like outburst of joy, and he ...