Kids Choir gives pitch perfect performance with just 10 days notice; Youth choir from Northern Ireland is stopping by New Orleans; Composers who put British music on the map ; Megan joins Ulster Youth Training Choir
Kids Choir gives pitch perfect performance with just 10 days notice
Belfast Telegraph – They wowed a worldwide audience of a billion people with their pitch-perfect rendition of Danny Boy from the iconic Giant’s Causeway. Now the head of the children’s choir who got the ball rolling on the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics has revealed they …
Forty-four children from Phil Kids and Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir featured in a montage of choirs from across the UK at the start of the ceremony. The Northern Ireland contingent were up first, with their performance from the world famous Causeway beamed across the globe.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/choir-gives-pitch-perfect-performance-with-just-10-days-notice-16191533.html
Youth choir from Northern Ireland is stopping by New Orleans
NOLA.com – A youth choir from Omagh, Northern Ireland, that formed soon after a terrorist car bomb killed 29 people in the small city comes to New Orleans again for four public performances next week.
The Omagh Community Youth Choir, which has recorded with Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed for the Starbucks Red Campaign and the PBS documentary “Playing for Change,” is composed of Catholic and Protestant youth from the Omagh area.
The ecumenical choir was formed by an Omagh native, Daryl Simpson, as a community peacemaking effort in 1998 shortly after an IRA splinter group detonated a bomb to wreck a new peace accord between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2012/07/youth_choir_from_northern_irel.html
Composers who put British music on the map
The Independent – Though he studied at Cambridge and in London, he hailed from Armagh in Northern Ireland, where his father was a tenor in the choir of St Patrick’s Cathedral. The Charles Wood Summer School for singers, organists and choir directors runs across Armagh …
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/composers-who-put-british-music-on-the-map-7834225.html
Megan joins Ulster Youth Training Choir
Larne Times – A Larne teenager has been selected to join one of Northern Ireland’s most prestigious choirs for young people and is to perform in two upcoming summer concerts. Megan McKeown, who just completed her GCSE studies at St Killian’s College, has spoken …
http://www.larnetimes.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/megan-joins-ulster-youth-training-choir-1-4095529