Shorter Chorale To Be Featured on NPR in Atlanta

The Shorter Chorale will be featured on the radio program “The Atlanta Music Scene” at 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, on WABE 90.1 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Atlanta. The hour-long program will include selections performed by the Shorter Chorale under the direction of Dr. Martha Shaw in Shorter’s Brookes Chapel in March 2007 and at Spivey Hall in 2005. Featured selections include Salmo 150 by Ernani Aguiar, There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli, Horizons by Peter Louis Van Dijk, Soneto de la Noche by Morten Lauridsen, My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord by Moses Hogan, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Gilbert Martin, Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd, Salvation is Created by Tschesnokoff, Ubi Caritas by Durufle, Heavenly Light by Alexander Kopylov, Rytmus by Ivan Hrusovsky, Sanctus by Frank Martin, I Got Shoes by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, and I Can Tell the World by Moses Hogan.

The Shorter Chorale, founded in 1968, is widely regarded as one of the finest collegiate choral ensembles in the southeastern United States.  In January 2007 the Chorale recorded its first professionally produced CD, A Savior From On High, which is due for release in late fall 2007.  The 2004-2005 season featured a tour of the great cathedrals and churches of England with performances in Coventry Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Christ Church, Oxford and Great St. Mary’s in Cambridge. The Chorale will tour Italy in 2008. 2005 also saw the first broadcast of the Shorter Chorale on National Public Radio.

The Chorale has been featured at the Georgia convention of the American Choral Directors Association, Georgia Music Educators In-Service Conferences, as well as the Georgia National Association of Teachers of Singing convention.  This exceptional choir continues its tradition of excellence with many guest appearances throughout the United States.

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