CASA - The Contemporary A Capella Society

by Helen Kuzina, Moscow (spring 2011)   When I found out that the Swingle Singers, hosts of London A Cappella Festival were performing in Cité de la Musique I jumped on the plane and came to fabulous Paris! This time they performed the Sinfonia by Lucia ...

Stories - Vocal Blog - 12/03/2011 - 19:01 - 1 comment - 0 groups

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at RJ’s blog on November 7th, 2011 – sorry for the SoJam-related delay ;-)   This is the first time I’m writing about one of the enormous opening-tunes. There’s a reason for that. I don’t know if anything has cha ...

Stories - Vocal Blog - 11/27/2011 - 14:16 - 1 comment - 0 groups

by June Caravel, November 27th, 2011 So there I am at the corner of Down Place and Bridge Avenue next to Hammersmith on my bike and the lyrics and melody of “I’m at a Down Place on a Bridge Avenue” pop in my head like magic. So I record them on my faith ...

Stories - Vocal Blog - 11/27/2011 - 12:46 - 1 comment - 0 groups

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at RJ’s blog on November 7th, 2011 – sorry for the SoJam-related delay ;-)   Yes, I have failed! This is the first blog I didn’t manage to churn out before the airing of the next episode, and I feel bad about it. ...

Stories - Vocal Blog - 11/27/2011 - 14:16 - 1 comment - 0 groups

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog founder Who is amarcord? If you are into classical a cappella music and haven’t heard of the German quintet “amarcord”, you must have been living under a rock for almost two decades. This group is probably today’s most su ...

Stories - Vocal Blog - 02/19/2012 - 16:00 - 0 comments - 0 groups