The Choral Hour
Series produced by KHFM
www.khfm.org
The Choral Hour explores music created for the most fundamental of instruments- the human voice. One-hour episodes featuring live concert recordings as well as selections from award-winning albums.
Kathlene Ritch hosts The Choral Hour, a series highlighting choral music through the ages as performed by top professional choirs from around the United States. If you love singing, or simply enjoy listening to voices combine in pure harmony, this is the program for you.
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Join host Kathlene Ritch to hear the GRAMMY-nominated album "Carthage," from Philadelphia-based professional choir, The Crossing. Featuring all new...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 01:57:58
Join host Kathlene Ritch for selections from two Grammy-nominated albums: Conspirare's "The Hope of Loving," featuring works of Jake Runestad, and ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2023
- Length: 59:04
Join host Kathlene Ritch on a trip across the Pacific to hear selections from the National Chorus of Korea, including works from their most recent ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch in an hour-long celebration of one of the first professional choirs, The Dale Warland Singers. Spanning over 30 years, thi...
- Added: Jan 22, 2022
- Length: 59:04
Join host Kathlene Ritch and explore the choral works of the great Johannes Brahms. Most people have heard of his German Requiem, or perhaps his Li...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Join host Kathlene Ritch for selections from 19th century America, from Shaker hymns and Appalachian tunes to songs from across the pond that were ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch in an exploration of 20th century French choral music, featuring two professional choirs from the Southwest. Selections fr...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 59:06
Join host Kathlene Ritch in an episode dedicated to the works of the late American composer Stephen Paulus, featuring performances by the Grammy-no...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 59:04
Join host Kathlene Ritch and get to know the work of two choral groups hailing from Boston: the early music ensemble Blue Heron, and the women's en...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she shares music of modern American composer Kile Smith, with selections from three of his larger choral works commissi...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she explores the different traditions that ensembles have for their December concerts. What must be done every year to ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 59:05
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she celebrates Black History Month! Featuring music of African American composers William Dawson and Moses Hogan. Kathl...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she features the all-male ensemble, Cantus, and tracks from their albums Manifesto, released in 2021, and their 2022 re...
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she shares a setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, written in 2018 by American composer Benedict Sheehan. This...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she explores works from two modern composers who are blazing a trail through the classical world: American composer Kev...
- Added: Jul 14, 2022
- Length: 58:58
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she jumps across the pond to England, to hear an ensemble which has gained rockstar status in the choral world and beyo...
- Added: Aug 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she explores choral settings of the texts of William Shakespeare, including interpretations by Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Join host Kathlene Ritch as she features music of women composers, including Jocelyn Hagen, Reena Esmail, and Italian Baroque composer Chiara Marga...
- Added: Nov 04, 2022
- Length: 59:05
Join Host Kathlene Ritch to hear excerpts from the vocal ensemble Skylark's 2021 album, "A Christmas Carol." Spoken passages from Dickens' timeless...
- Added: Dec 23, 2022
- Length: 59:30
Join host Kathlene Ritch for a journey with medieval pilgrims traveling the Camino de Santiago as she explores British composer Joby Talbot's "Path...
- Added: Dec 23, 2022
- Length: 01:06:34
