Press Release ---------------------------------------------------------------July 11, 2008
MINNESOTA’S LAND OF LAKES CHOIRBOYS ADVANCE TO MEDAL ROUND - WORLD CHOIR GAMES
The Land of Lakes Choirboys’ Viking Choir has advanced to the July 12th medal round in the Musica Sacra category of the World Choir Games in Graz, Austria, which is the largest choir competition in the world for lay and amateur choirs.
These 34 boys, aged 10-15 years old, competed against 35 other choirs, both children’s and adult, for the opportunity to compete in Saturday’s medal competition. As of this press release, the Viking Choir had been notified of their success and advancement, but the complete roster of the final, medal round participants had not yet been released to the public.
During final competition in the Sacred Music category, each choir will perform four pieces with a maximum pure-singing time of 15 minutes. They will all compete before the same elite, seven-member jury of international judges from Austria, Greece, Germany, Ukraine, China and Vietnam.
In scoring the medal round, the judges evaluate the competitors in the areas of intonation, sound quality of the choir, fidelity to the score, and overall artistic impression. The final result is made up of the total of all final scores of each of the adjudicators, with the lowest and highest figure disregarded. The Awards Ceremonies will be held on Sunday, July 13th.
Though they also competed against 41 other choirs in Thursday’s qualifying round of the Children’s Choir category, those results won’t be made public until early Saturday morning, July 12. Should they advance in that category, the medal competition will take place later that same day.
The Viking Choir, which has been touring in Europe since June 12th, began their quest for a World Choir Games medal in December, when Artistic Director Mr. Francis Stockwell applied to the WCG artistic committee with an audition tape, photos, a proposed performance repertoire, and copies of reviews from critics around the world. They are one of only eight choirs to represent the United States.
There are some 20,000 singers in Graz for this bi-annual event, representing 93 nations and every continent on the earth. More than 600 performances will take place in 28 different categories.
The World Choir Games is next scheduled to take place in 2010 in Shaoxing, China.
The Land of Lakes Viking Choir will return to the Twin Cities late in the afternoon on Tuesday, July 15th, having represented their community, state and country with the greatest of integrity and accomplishment.
Notes to the editor: For further information, please contact:
Associate Director Aaron Carpenter
6437 Norris Lake Road
Elk River, MN 55330
763.238.8286
acarpenter@lolcb.org
http://www.lolcb.org/
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