UPDATE (Aug. 7, 2017) The Portland State Chamber Choir sings way above its weight class. It regularly challenges professional European choirs to top laurels at competitions, whether being the first ...

Appropriately enough for the Easter season, Ēriks Ešenvalds’s Passion and Resurrection tells the story of how Jesus Christ was betrayed by a friend, tortured to death, and then reportedly came back to ...

The westward stream of inventive new music from the Baltic nations, which began gathering momentum a couple of decades ago, only grows more notable with each passing year. One example among many is ...

The Grant Park Music Festival has commissioned various scores for chorus and orchestra in recent years to show off its jewel of a resident choir, the Grant Park Chorus. But those pieces, bound as they ...

A tussle is going on for the future of choral music between those who write for the masses and the unreconstructed modernists. The music of Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds has set up camp in the ...

Ēriks Ešenvalds music is described as an interlocking mosaic of texts from the gospels, from Byzantine and Roman liturgies, and from the Old Testament. Evenings starts with one of Felix Mendelssohn's ...

This we know: Vancouver’s Chor Leoni has successfully hired one of Europe’s leading choral composers, Ēriks Ešenvalds, to write the central piece in its new concert program, The Dream We Carry. The ...

Science tells us the aurora borealis, a shimmering display of colored light splashed across the night sky, is caused by highly charged electrons sliding back to a lower-energy state, releasing photons ...

Being a journalist, I rather doubt I shall attain the kingdom of heaven, but in the unlikely event that I do, I fear I may find all that relentless rapture a little heavy-going. So it is with the ...

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