Story Categories: Music Department News

 
Post Image for Student makes national musical theater competition
April 8, 2021
Vocal performance major Hannah Sapitan ’23 to compete in NATS Student Auditions semifinal round
 
Post Image for Schulenberg publishes new Bach biography
July 20, 2020
J.S. Bach bio by music history professor is latest in Oxford University Press series
 
Post Image for Voice prof to perform at National Portrait Gallery
July 18, 2019
Anthony Turner to sing song cycle based on ‘The Gathering: City Prayers, City Hope’
 
Post Image for Thomas Juneau named director of choral activities
May 1, 2019
Founded in 1935, Wagner College Choir has long tradition of excellence
 
Post Image for ‘Italian Idol’ wins $50K grant
November 15, 2017
Quality of annual singing competition draws gift from Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation
 
Post Image for Free concert honors late faculty members Ron Cross, Arnold Rosner
August 25, 2017
The Festival Chorus of Collectio Musicorum (“Collection of Music”) will present a concert on Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in memory of two Wagner College music professors, Ronald Cross and Arnold Rosner. The concert will be hosted by Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 122 West 69th St., New York. […]
 
Post Image for New book on Wagner Choir history published
August 10, 2017
Wagner College has a powerful choral tradition of more than 80 years. A new book published by Wagner College Communications, "We Found Our Voice," tells the choir's full history for the first time.
 
Post Image for The story behind ‘Beautiful Upon a Hill’
December 10, 2015
Wagner College’s original alma mater, written by a student in 1918, was called ‘We Stand United’
 
Post Image for Wagner College Choir 1975 LP
December 1, 2015
During its 1975 tour of Austria and Germany, the Wagner College Choir stopped in Berlin and worked into the small hours of the morning to record their tour program. The album was recorded in Berlin's Church of the Twelve Apostles (Zwolf-Apostel-Kirche) by recording engineer John Proffitt. The choir was directed by Arnold J. Running. Thanks […]
 
Post Image for Wagner College Choir's 1949 recording now online
November 2, 2015
Bruce Bainbridge '73 recently donated a boxed three-disc set of 78 rpm recordings made by the "Wagner College A Capella Choir" in 1949 under the direction of his father, John L. Bainbridge, who took over the choir in 1944. (We're not entirely sure why it was called the "a capella choir," since most if not […]