| Comment: Re: Alternate text to Tallis Canon | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | October 13, 2009 |
| Pete Seeger's Old Hundred should be perfect for school (at least most of the verses)
http://www.peteseeger.net/oldhundred.htm |
| Comment: Re: Comparable programs in churches with ~75 or less av. Sunday attendance? | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | August 12, 2012 |
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YES!!! Count me in! I work at a progressive American Baptist choir. Average congregation attendance is around 80, choir 8-14 (except at Christmas when I pull in friends and family to bump us up to 20). I'd be happy to share our anthem list. I have the added challenge of working within the c... |
| Comment: Re: Heart We Will Forget Him by ??? (in search of arranger/composer) | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | March 26, 2013 |
| I wonder if it was the arrangment by James Mabry, part of the Janet Galvan Women's Chorale Series, though when I was singing under her in college we did the Mulholland (with french horn).
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| Comment: Re: Looking for Palm Sunday Processional music - youth oriented, upbeat? | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | February 20, 2010 |
| Praise the Lord - Cameroon song - Earthsongs publisher
Antiphonal Hosanna - G. Alan Smith - http://www.jwpepper.com/1474444.item
Good luck! |
| Comment: Re: looking for transposition website | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | April 4, 2012 |
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JW Pepper has that available for many piano/vocal songs but I haven't seen it for anthems.
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| Comment: Re: MM Choral Conducting? | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | April 14, 2011 |
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Just thought I'd add a school to the list. My alma mater, Ithaca College has a master's in conducting
http://www.ithaca.edu/gps/gradprograms/programsites/music/programs/conducting/
Because there are no DMA students, master's students at IC get a signficant amount of time from professors a... |
| Comment: Re: Movies to show in choir | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | December 25, 2011 |
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How about "The Choir" - either version
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/07/07/128355930/-the-choir-a-joyful-documentary-series-for-your-inner-theater-geek
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929735/
We Are Together
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/we-are-together-the-childre... |
| Comment: Re: Music for K-2 | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | February 19, 2013 |
| I highly recommend the following resources:
http://www.westmusic.com/1002410-print-music-books/m1070-kodaly-music-books/m1070d-texts/kodaly-today.htm - for general music class goals, lesson planning, scope and sequence
http://www.boosey.com/teaching/subseries/Choral-Music-Experience/31&... |
| Comment: Re: Schools for choral direction/music education? | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | March 31, 2012 |
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I did my undergrad in music education at Ithaca College and my master's at Columbia/Teacher's College. That said...if Queens College had a summer program available I would have done my master's there. Their facilities and faculty were top notch. It would be worth checking to see if that's stil... |
| Comment: Re: Seeking African music choral gems | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | June 14, 2013 |
| I highly recommend this series - authentic South African choral singing - taught by rote.
http://thechoralimperative.com/
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| Comment: Re: story telling church anthems | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | January 26, 2013 |
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Poor Man Lazaurs - Hairston
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| Comment: Re: Vocal pedagogy for K-8 singers? | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | May 17, 2013 |
| There IS a textbook now!
http://www.amazon.com/Kod%C3%A1ly-Today-Cognitive-Elementary-Education/dp/0195314093
Did a workshop with the authors at last year's OAKE conference. It's great.
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| Comment: Re: women's suffrage commemoration--need repertoire suggestions | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | August 20, 2009 |
| Bread and Roses.
I'm looking for a arrangment right now to prepare my church choir for Labor Day.
Here's a couple helpful links to get you started:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Roses
Sound file: http://music.aol.com/album/bread-and-roses/74004
- Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum... |
| Forum message: Seeking piece for unison children + SATB choir | Jennifer Lawrence Birnbaum | April 9, 2009 |
| I'm seeking a piece for mid-June (Children's Sunday in our church) to highlight the children in our congregation. We had a VERY successful anthem last weekend "Antiphonal Hosanna" for SATB choir and unison children and I'm looking for a similar piece. We have around a dozen children but most are onl... |
