Show choir bus engulfed in flames
A bus carrying the show choir from Wheaton Warrenville South High School caught fire Friday. Everybody's OK, and the group won 1st place at the contest.
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Wheaton & Chicago choristers bond by singing
The choir from a Wheaton IL middle school will combine with one from Chicago to perform 2 community-based concerts this holiday season.
Movie review: Straight Outta Compton
<em>Straight Outta Compton</em> is a music biopic about the rise of N.W.A. in mainstream hip-hop culture.
Music moves us, and we should pay for it
Taylor Swift convinced Apple Computer to pay artists royalties even while consumers stream their music for free. Why is that important?
IL music state champions
We congratulate the winners of IL's state music sweepstakes, a computed score based on solo & ensemble and large group competitions.
Chicago high school choir to perform in the Nutcracker
Lincoln Park High School Chamber Singers will join the pit orchestra at the Joffrey Ballet this weekend.
Choristers may have prepared sight-singing in advance
Some students in the northern suburbs may have cheated when auditioning for the ILMEA District 7 senior chorus. Corrective action is under way.
Student composers take center stage in Illinois
Composers from Illinois high schools presented their award-winning works Thursday at the Illinois Music Education Conference in Peoria.
Students in Vintage Voices sing old songs to old folks
A group of students at Centennial H S in Ellicott City, Md., sing for senior citizens every month, and they choose songs from when the seniors were young to "remind them of happy times."
Favorite music turns teens into bad drivers
Music that you like listening to may distract you while driving and cause you to make more errors on the road than you would if no music were playing, a new study suggests.