The Cincinnati Boychoir has received a $60,000, two-year grant from The Greater Cincinnati Foundation for the purpose of enhancing the musical organization’s education program. For more than forty-five years, the Cincinnati Boychoir has presented top-notch musical performances both in the Queen City and around the world, including collaborations with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, [...]
Continue Reading →Week 4: The drama of Messiah: words & music
Handel’s Messiah tells a story, and it is worth being acquainted with the narrative in order to follow the action for one very interesting reason: the main character in the drama never actually appears. Jesus’ life and works are related only by scriptural references and events [...]
Continue Reading →Week 3: The performing tradition of Messiah
There are probably as many opinions as to how Messiah should be performed as there are conductors, singers, instrumentalists, organists, music critics, and devoted concertgoers, and there are a couple of reasons for this: first, Handel himself made many changes to the score of Messiah for various performances; [...]
Continue Reading →Janelle Gelfand, the Cincinnati Enquirer’s senior music critic, sat down several weeks ago with Boychoir Artistic Director Christopher Eanes to chat about what’s new at CBC, and what we can look forward to in the future. The article ran today (Friday, April 30). Click here to read.
Concerts this weekend will take [...]
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