High notes: Dr. B and Columbus High are singing a new tune, expanding a choral culture
“Chin up. Ears in line with your shoulders,” Doug Browning says, corralling the attention of teenagers getting settled in bright yellow and blue plastic chairs Wednesday in Columbus High School’s choir room.
St. Paul’s presents Lessons and Carols tonight
December is a busy musical month, and the choir of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Columbus will add to the season with a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols this evening.
A very special Christmas: Area mass choir to perform with Grammy-winning tenor (and it all began with a spot of channel surfing)
A few years ago, Doug Browning was casually flipping through channels and came across David Phelps.
“I hear this voice, and I just back up and watch. I was riveted in my living room!” said the Columbus First United Methodist Church music director.
Although no one could have foreseen it then, Browning’s discovery planted the seed that will bring the Grammy and Dove Award-winning artist to the Golden Triangle Dec. 21 at Rent Auditorium.
‘Messiah’: An annual touchstone invites area singers to join the ‘joyful noise’
“It’s in the bones of the English-speaking world,” James Allen says, and you can hear it again Dec. 10 when “Columbus Sings Messiah” comes to Annunciation Catholic Church, 823 College St.
Columbus choirs prepare for spring concert events
As the school year comes to a close, most high school students are counting down the days until the bell rings for the last time. But for more than 50 choral students from Columbus Middle School and nearly 100 students from Columbus High, there is work to be done.