The 33rd annual St. Thomas Christmas Concert will be released online on Dec. 18 after being recorded in November at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Brady Education Center auditorium. Chief Video Editor Taylor Shupe has the story.
St. Thomas hired Albert Pinsonneault as the interim director of choral activities at St. Thomas for the 2019-20 school year, replacing Angela Broeker who left last spring.
Angela Kasper Broeker, St. Thomas director of choral activities and music professor, is leaving the university. Kasper Broeker will be in charge of the choral music education students at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington in the fall.
St. Thomas sophomore Matthew Farho traveled to San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico for seven days with choir group, Common Ground Voices. The week-long choir tour in early March focused on peace at the Mexican-American border.
The St. Thomas music department puts on in annual Christmas concert at Orchestra Hall, and Al Franken denies another allegation. Reporter MacKenzie Bailey has today’s News in :90.
The St. Thomas Christmas Concert Sunday evening at Orchestra Hall was a made-for-television spectacle.
Audiences nationwide watched as “A St. Thomas Christmas: Jubilant Light” aired on the Public Broadcasting Service last December. Now, the broadcast has been nominated for an Emmy award at the 2016 Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The St. Thomas Women’s Choir recently changed its name to Donne Unite to distinguish the group and create a stronger sense of family among the singers.
The St. Thomas music department was nominated for a 2014 Upper Midwest Emmy award for its 2013 Christmas concert, but the St. Olaf choir won it Sept. 13.
The venue underwent a lobby expansion and dramatic changes to its exterior.
