How low can you sing?

Universal Music announces a world-wide talent search for the lowest human voice in existence to record a new composition by UK Christmas No.


Record company embarks on bass odyssey

A global hunt has been launched for a singer capable of reaching depths never achieved before in choral music.


How low can you go? Record label launches bass hunt

LONDON (Reuters) - The Decca music label is looking for a singer who can go where no other singer is believed to have gone before -- a low "E," which is nearly three octaves below a middle "C" on the piano. Paul Mealor, the composer behind the surprise British Christmas chart hit "Wherever You Are" sung by The Military Wives choir, has written a composition called "De Profundis (Out of the ...


Hunt for world's lowest voice

Mealor rose to prominence after being selected to compose new music for the 2011 royal wedding of Britain's Prince William to Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ' one of the biggest public events in recent years.


Bass motive leaves Welsh composer in search of a new low

LONDON – The Decca music label is looking for a singer who can sing a note believed to be lower than anyone has sung on a recording before – a low E, which is nearly three octaves below a middle C on the piano.


Classical Digital Dose: New discs run gamut from old to new

American, Russian, German and French composers from the 18th through 21st centuries are represented on the discs reviewed this week.


PTC student plays his way to Carnegie Hall

Adrian Romoff, 7, of Peachtree City is a remarkable little boy and that might be an understatement. A fourth grade student at St. Paul Lutheran School in Peachtree City who takes fifth grade math, Romoff also speaks Russian and English and is an award-winning pianist. read more


thursday, february 2

The Legend of Love Boris Gruzin's contemporary ballet to Arif Melikov's rhythmic score about a queen who regrets forsaking her beauty to save her dying sister when they both fall in love with a beautiful artist.


A HARD BARGAIN

ALEXANDER BELENKY / SPT Women converse at the Christmas market on Ploshchad Ostrovskogo on Tuesday. The market, which has stalls representing different countries selling souvenirs, food and drink, will run through Jan. 14, when New Year is celebrated according to the Orthodox calendar.


CHERNOV'S CHOICE

This week is one that clubs describe as a “dead week.” Coming soon after the lengthy New Year/Christmas holidays, it lacks many great events, as the concert-going public relaxes after taxing celebrations and is frequently left without money to afford a ticket.