Step into St. Monica’s church hall in West Wyoming on a Tuesday evening, close your eyes and listen. Members of the Choral Arts of Luzerne County are sitting in a semi-circle, singing earnestly and ...
Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...
Some choreographers prefer form to function — the perfect curve of an arched back, the razor-straight line of an outstretched arm, the precise angle of an ankle as a dancer trots across the stage — ...
Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings “Fa la sol la sol.” This is “shape note” music, an a ...
A shape note hymn much like this one gives Thomas Canning's beautiful "Fantasy on a Hymn Tune" a decidedly American accent. A noted French author once said the accent of one's birthplace persists in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Zack Allen and Maggie Lauterer pose with MHU students Mikayla Ledford, Taylor Zima, Denise Benson, Megan Walters, ...