–By Brandon “Under Pressure” arose from a jam session between Queen and David Bowie in Switzerland in 1981. This is one potential explanation for the improvisational opening of the song (arguably seeming more improvisational when a choir is singing all … Read More
–By Brandon As Choir of the Sound gets ready to rock out for spring quarter, our first Friday Factoid offers a transition from our winter gospel and spirituals concert to U2’s “Pride (In the Name of Love).” The song, which … Read More
We are so excited about our upcoming Big Tap Number at the Pops show! Here are a few pictures from our recent rehearsal, which we hope will get you as fired up to see it as we are to perform … Read More
Shorecrest High School is still undergoing construction; the new school is complete, but demolition of the old buildings is continuing. The parking situation has changed since we were last there for our 2013 Holiday Show. The parking and drop-off area … 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
Here is a reminder about the parking situation at Shorecrest Performing Arts Center for our upcoming Pops shows on June 1st and 2nd–which basically has not changed since our holiday shows last December (right after the newly remodeled theater opened). … 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