A conversation with Cantor Thom King and Rabbi Steven Schwartz from Beth El Congregation about the great Hebrew prophet, Elijah, and a remembrance of Rabbi Mark Loeb. Rabbi Loeb was a passionate music lover, and a frequent collaborator with Baltimore Choral Arts. We'll hear an excerpt from one of Rabbi Loeb's last appearances on Choral Arts Classics, in which he talked with Tom about Mendelssohn's great masterpiece, as a preview to the Choral Arts Society's performance on May 6.
Choral Arts Classics
Tom Hall is the Arts & Culture Editor for Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast and the host of Choral Arts Classics on WYPR. Tom has been a dynamic force in Maryland's creative community for 30 years as a performer, broadcaster, lecturer, writer, and educator.
Tom was named "Best Radio Personality" by the City Paper in 2009, and in 2006, he was named "Best New Journalist" by Maryland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award for his television broadcast of Christmas with Choral Arts on WMAR Television.
As the Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, he has collaborated with many of Maryland's leading arts organizations, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Maryland Symphony, Pro Musica Rara, the Walters Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
He appears regularly as a guest conductor throughout the U.S and in Europe, and he is invited frequently to speak to professional and community organizations in Maryland and throughout the United States.
Tom has published articles in the Baltimore Sun, Style Magazine, and many professional journals; he has served as a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, and he has lectured and taught courses at the Peabody Conservatory, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Morgan State University. He has been the Director of Choral Activities at Goucher College since 1983, and he is a board member of former chair of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
Tom lives in Baltimore with his wife, Linell Smith.
Maryland Morning’s Culture Editor Tom Hall is also the Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. On the final Tuesday of each month from September-April, he hosts Choral Arts Classics, a monthly program featuring recordings of concerts by the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and many special guests. Choral Arts Classics will return for its 10th season in September. In the meantime, catch Tom on Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast weekday mornings at 9:00.
Choral Arts Classics is produced by Aaron Henkin.
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On the March edition of Choral Arts Classics, a look at the genius of George Frederick Handel. Known for centuries as the composer of great oratorios like Messiah, this program will concentrate on Handel's work as a young man, when his tremendous talent and unique voice was just being developed. Historian and popular lecturer Ray Sprenkle returns to Choral Arts Classics to talk with Tom about Handel's early career, and we'll share with you a performance of his first major work, the cantata Dixit Dominus.
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On the February edition of Choral Arts Classics, a tribute to Lucille Clifton, the internationally acclaimed poet who was the former poet laureate of Maryland. Tom welcomes Carla DuPree, Executive Director of the Howard County Poetry and Literary Society to discuss the work of Ms. Clifton, her friend and mentor who passed away in 2010. Ms. Clifton's work serves as the inspiration for composer Gwyneth Walker in her “Dreams and Dances,” which will receive its broadcast premiere.
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Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil, Part 2
Actors Kyle Prue and Megan Anderson, along with Everyman Theater dramaturg Naomi Greenberg-Slovin join Tom to talk about their collaboration with Choral Arts in a unique performance of Rachmaninoff’s a cappella masterpiece.
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The December edition of Choral Arts Classics explores the beautiful and mysterious music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Actors Kyle Prue and Megan Anderson, along with Everyman Theater dramaturg Naomi Greenberg-Slovin join Tom to talk about their collaboration with Choral Arts in a unique performance of Rachmaninoff’s a cappella masterpiece, the All Night Vigil.
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Tom speaks with Dr. Ysaye Barnwell. A long time member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a composer, activist, and teacher, Dr. Barnwell is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work is admired for its originality, imagination and influence.
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Tom talks to Frank Nemhauser, director of the Berkshire Choral Festival, which attracts singers from around the world to its summer choral singing programs. Ann Meier Baker, the President of Chorus America also joins Tom for an update on the status of choral singing throughout the country.
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Tom invites a few of his choral colleagues from the area to share recordings of their groups, and discuss Maryland's vibrant choral singing scene.
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