Mark January 8, 2012 on your calendar! It’s time to show our appreciation to church musicians everywhere! Join people nationwide in thanking the good folks in your church who share their musical talents with you every week. J.W. Pepper is co-sponsoring the National Choir Appreciation Sunday event held on January 8th, along with CCLI and Sermonspice. While musical volunteers should be appreciated […]
Portland’s choral music scene is flourishing
The past few years have seen a changing of the guard in Portland’s choral music scene. Last year, the city’s two most influential veteran choral conductors, University of Portland professor Roger Doyle and Lewis & Clark College’s Gil Seeley, retired after three-plus decades of leading two of the city’s three most important choral organizations: Choral […]
“How they brought the good news by sea” TB divisi 2:00
This is a setting of the humorous poem by Norma Farber (1909-1984) which tells the story of how the creatures in the sea managed to convey the news of the event at Bethlehem, even though handicapped by immobility on land. Originally for SA divisi, I have recently transposed it for male choir, where it works […]
Choral Art Society of NJ – 50th Anniversary Season
The Choral Art Society of New Jersey, Inc. in conjunction with St. Anne’s RC Church, announces its annual Messiah Sing which will take place on Friday, December 2, 2011, at 8:00 P.M. at St. Anne’s Church, 325 Second Avenue, Garwood, N.J. The parking lot for St. Anne’s Church is accessible from North Avenue across from the […]
Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition
The deadline for new songs and choral settings of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is December 12, 2011: http://www.longfellowchorus.com/Longfellow_Chorus_Composers_Competition_2012 The Longfellow Choral Festival, March 3-4-5, 2012, features Elgar's Longfellow cantata The Saga of King Olaf and the music of Ole Bull with guest appearances by Norwegian violinists Arve Tellefsen and Henning Kraggerud: […]
Play List for Great Sacred Music, Sunday, November 13, 2011
Please join me for an album of Magnificats this Sunday on Great Sacred Music. Three hours of sacred choral music airs from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org. Rob Kennedy ———————————————— 08:00:20 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Magnificat in G Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, […]