JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Joseph Shabalala's strong deep voice rings out clear and haunting. A choir of voices join him, rising into a harmony of sound. "This is the way we do," sings legendary South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. "This is the way we do."
The Utah Chamber Artists are known for intimate concerts of choral and orchestral works. But Monday, the singers will be performing "Mostly A Cappella.
Then: Bernice (Murphy) Maske of Joliet, a member of the Class of 1942 at Joliet Township High School, was a member of the Hiking Club, GAA and Take and Type Club; she sang in the Junior Chorus and A Cappella Choir, performing in "Sweethearts," and "Pink Lady"; she earned the Gold Choir Pin Award. She belonged to the Sodality of St. Bernard's Catholic Church. She worked as a switchboard
Jere Cherryholmes, the patriarch of the family band that shares his last name, likes to say he doesn't think bluegrass music needs to change, it just needs new life breathed into it.
"We're pretty happy to be coming home,” said Naturally 7 founder Roger Thomas. His band has been playing shows around the globe, averaging about 250 shows a year. N7 started with two brothers singing traditional a cappella in church but quickly grew in talent and numbers to seven.
Sixty-six: Number of young women who auditioned in 2005 for three vacancies in Tangled Up in Blue, an all-female a cappella singing group on the UW campus. 2,251: Seats in Overture Hall, which the all-male a cappella group The MadHatters has sold out for its annual spring concert three times. Two: Other student a cappella groups -- the all-male Fundamentally Sound, and the co-ed Redefined --
Earl Rivers hasn't counted the number of premieres he's conducted in 20 years as music director of the Vocal Arts Ensemble. He conducts his final concert today.
WARREN Mary Ann Basile Ovacek, 75, died at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, at University Hospital in Cleveland following an extended illness. She was born March 18, 1932, in Warren, a daughter of Andrew and Frances Fazio Basile.
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