Only the stage lights were on in Brown Auditorium inside Old Main, as 18 SUNY Cortland students began a gentle harmony, which rose and eventually filled the traditional performing venue with an ...

It happens quite a bit, a cappella that is. On America’s Got Talent, in front of an audience of, oh, 3 million people, Simon Cowell stops the music and tells the singer to lose the soundtrack. And the ...

When the Saxatones and the other five a cappella singing groups hold their annual rush at Georgetown University, hundreds of underclassmen race to sing for each ensemble. The audition process is so ...

Birds do it. Bees do it. They make sounds without instrumental accompaniment. When people do it, it is called a cappella singing, and it is the most basic form of musicmaking: the mother singing a ...

Cornell’s more than 10 a cappella groups represent a diverse range of music genres, cultural focuses and membership criteria. However, all of these groups provide singers with a space to build ...

But as interview subjects reveal, it’s more than just a competition for the University of Southern California’s vocal group. Directors and cinematographers Angelique Molina and Abraham Troen shine a ...

Few people were aware of the 1994 single “Insomniac” by the rock duo Billy Pilgrim, and it quickly sank into obscurity. But a cappella groups can’t stop singing it. We set out to find an explanation.