Deadline: January 31, 2024. Almost half of the increasingly popular Middle School Music Grants have been awarded for the 2023-24 school year. This Middle School Music Grant Program supports the efforts of teachers in leading their students to a fruitful life of behavioral kindness and emotional wellness, by nurturing empathy and compassion through community service, […]
MusicaMail, the newsletter of Musica International
The MusicaMail of September is out! https://www.musicanet.org/musicamail/202309/202309_en.html In this MusicaMail: – Christmas special – selection of pieces for your Christmas programs – Musica Workshop in Strasbourg, France – Notice to composers of choral music – Concert theme of this MusicaMail: “Flowers” … and more You can subscribe to the next newsletters at https://www.musicanet.org/en/musica/newsletter/ Musica International […]
Still Searching for Holiday Music?
Still Searching for Holiday Music? Contributing Editor: Jonathan Campbell Can you hear the sound of sleigh bells, carolers, and holiday cheer? YOU CAN’T?!?! Then we encourage you on this September night to unthaw last year’s eggnog and finish your holiday program with something from under Graphite’s Christmas Tree. Meet Me for Noche BuenaSaunder […]
A new song for World Peace Day
Sept 21 is World Peace Day (the International Day of Peace). This year’s theme includes a call to action that recognizes our individual and collective responsibility to foster world peace. My small contribution this year is to share a brand new recording of an anti-war song that I have been working on for the past […]
More Christmas Music to consider
New Recording – Christmas at Colla Voce I recently found a newer recording of my arrangement of Gustav Holst’s setting of Christina Rossetti “In the Bleak Midwinter.” This is The Texas Voices, Alan Dyer, Director. This has become a very popular setting over the years. I hope you will enjoy listening to this as you […]
Seated Choral Riser Recommendations
Our Wenger seated choral risers have served us well since 1987, but it’s time to retire them. I’m looking for recommendations of other types/brands of seated choral risers that we should consider, in addition to Wenger. Does anyone have experience with National Public Seating seated choral risers? (SchoolsIn sells them for a reasonable price. I’d […]