MUSIC

Cypress Creek FACE presents the 10th Annual “A World of Song”, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 26, 2011. Students from Cy-Fair, Klein Collins, Klein Oak, and Tomball high schools join to perform the tenth annual “A World of Song,” with conductor, Dr. Doreen Rao  (pictured) of the University of Toronto.

Doreen Rao has changed the landscape of music education in America. Her seminal work as a conductor and master teacher fostered the children’s choir movement in America and inspired a generation of conductors and teachers to lead young choirs in schools and communities around the world.

Dr. Rao holds the Cameron Baird Conductor’s Chair as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and the Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting as Director of Choral Programs at the University of Toronto. Linking the standards of concert performance with the goals of music education, Rao is an author and editor of numerous books and articles on choral singing and music education.

She serves as Choral Advisor and Editor to Boosey & Hawkes for her award-winning choral series, Choral Music Experience. In a national tribute presented to her by the American Choral Director’s Association, eminent American conductor Robert Shaw wrote: “The world of choral music owes her special thanks. She is preparing our future.”