Barney Sherman
Classical Music HostBarney Sherman joined Iowa Public Radio member station KSUI in fall 2001. He hosts weekday and Sunday afternoon Classical programs and writes posts for iowapublicradio.org. He has written about music for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, and many other publications, and in books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
A book he co-edited won the "Award for Excellence: Best Research in Recorded Classical Music" from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Another topic he has written about is Iowa, for The Atlantic. You can contact Barney at bsherman@iowapublicradio.org.
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For her farewell concert, Drake University choral director Aimee Beckmann-Collier commissioned five new works - and we've got a first listen to one of…
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"Bach is the father, we are the kids,” said Mozart, maybe. The quote was reported 40 years after Mozart’s death by someone known to make stuff up and…
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Tune in this afternoon at 1 to hear a live preview of the 2019 ChamberFest Dubuque - including music by founder Michael Gilbertson that the Pulitzer Prize…
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Drake's Beckmann-Collier On 30 Years of Choral Flourishing And On Retirement As Redefinition Of SelfAimee Beckmann-Collier jokes that she “had a plan for every minute of her life since junior high.” By age seven she knew she would be a teacher, and by…
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It's good to have many skills, but even better when they synergize. At Grinnell College, John Rommereim conducts choirs, writes music, teaches composition…
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In the last two months of 2018, Iowans gave 100 choral concerts (we listed them!). But if December is "peak choral," the singing returns in February and…
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Albert Mazibuko grew up on a farm in South Africa then found work at an asbestos factory. But since childhood he'd dreamed of singing with an innovative…
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UPDATE: Tonight at 6:30 PM*, Vocalese will sing at St. John's Lutheran Church in Des Moines, as will the Urbandale Singers and Iowa State Singers. It's a…
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A Long Island teenager had a ticket to a Moody Blues concert, but his mother insisted he go instead to hear a college choir visiting from Minnesota.…
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A Choral Iowa post: Supermarkets began piping in holiday tunes in November, so you've probably heard all the standards just in the course of buying…