When Christmas comes to Choir of the Sound this December, our cartoon-themed show will include a stop in Halloween Town as we sing a medley from Danny Elfman’s score for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which the composer … Read More
What’s this? What’s this? There’s music in the air… This year’s holiday show will feature a number of songs from Christmas cartoons and movies. One of the most prolific of these Christmas songwriters is Johnny Marks. Marks is famous for … Read More
For nearly 25 years, Choir of the Sound has included dancing in our Holiday and Spring Pop Shows, a feature that sets us apart from most other choral groups. As the Dance Coordinator and one of the choreographers, Erin Bowles … Read More
When the leaves have fallen, and frost forms on the windows overnight, we reach for the comfort of a hot drink to warm us from the inside out. Tea, coffee, and hot chocolate are all well and good for every … Read More
Our 2014 Holiday Show will feature two recent additions to the choral repertoire that have rapidly become favorites: Morten Lauridsen’s “O Nata Lux” (“Born of Light”) and Eric Whitacre’s “Lux Aurumque” (“Light and Gold”). These two composers, who came … Read More
Our upcoming Pops show will feature an arrangement of Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” by American jazz icon Ward Swingle. Early in his career, Mr. Swingle performed with Les Double Six of Paris, whose founder Mimi … Read More
The second half of our upcoming Pops show will consist entirely of wonderful songs from the classic musical “Anything Goes.” Here’s a little history on this beloved show! A bomb threat aboard an ocean liner leaves our lead characters shipwrecked … Read More
Here is a little background on scat singing, which you will be hearing in our upcoming Pops show! It is a convention of jazz performance that when a combo is playing, each player gets a turn to take over … Read More
Billy Joel Discography The child of working-class Jewish immigrants and raised in Levittown, Long Island, Billy Joel sings about the pleasures of the American Everyman: Italian restaurants, cold beer in the shade. He identifies with underdog outlaws like Billy the … Read More
Elton John Discography Reginald Kenneth Dwight, born in a suburb of London in 1947, was already displaying a talent for piano at the age of four. At eleven he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. Instead … Read More