by Admin | May 18, 2018 | Media Article, News
By Becky Malewitz South Bend Tribune May 17, 2018 Inspired by a Pietá-like painting of a mother in an Iraq desert holding her deceased soldier son, composer John Muehleisen set out to write a choral piece that captured wartime loss by searching for a letter written...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2018 | Media Article, News
SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Chamber Singers present Italian opera composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the O’Laughlin Auditorium at Saint Mary’s College. Rossini, who had retired from composing operas about 34 years...
by Admin | Dec 18, 2017 | Media Article, News
Jack Walton | South Bend Tribune Correspondent | December 14, 2017 When Nancy Menk commissions a new work for the South Bend Chamber Singers, she allows the composer to select the text, subject to her approval. So it was a happy coincidence when William Averitt said...
by Admin | Jun 22, 2017 | Media Article, News
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – This weekend, the South Bend Chamber Singers plan to illustrate the tragic story of Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust. Dr. Nancy Menk, the conductor of the South Bend Chamber Singers, and soloist Elizabeth Schleicher, joined us on...
by Admin | Apr 20, 2017 | Media Article, News
Andrew S. Hugues | South Bend Tribune | April 20, 2017 Each April, the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley observes Holocaust Remembrance Day — Yom HaShoah in Hebrew. But this year will be different. Along with Temple Beth-El, the Jewish Federation is sponsoring...
by Admin | Oct 20, 2016 | Media Article, News
By Andrew S. Hughes | South Bend Tribune | Oct 20, 2016 Twenty-five years ago this fall, the South Bend Chamber Singers and South Bend Symphony Orchestra performed Vivaldi’s “Gloria” together. Since then, the SBSO’s Maestro Tsung Yeh retired in May, and only three...