“I Will Lift Mine Eyes,” by award-winning young composer Jake Runestad, has just been published by Boosey & Hawkes as a part of their Choral Music Experience Conductor’s Choice series. This a cappella setting of Psalm 121 captures the beauty and serenity of nature and the promise of guidance and support from a higher […]
Two new publications from Bricthmark Music, Inc.
Lassus, edited Jameson Marvin: Two Short Motets (SSA unaccompanied). (1) Agimus tibi (We give you thanks); (2) In pace (In peace I will sleep). Extensive biographical, historical, and performance notes. (BRM-23) $2.00. Jeffrey Bishop: ‘Tis Ivan, on a Visit (2 equal voices accompanied by keyboard or instruments). Text: words games – palindromes, tongue-twisters, anagrams, […]
Composer Stephen Chatman Wins Western Canadian Music Award
“October 25, 2010 (Kelowna, BC) Canadian Music Centre associate composer Stephen Chatman was awarded the Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his work Earth Songs, recorded on CMC’s Centrediscs label. Earth Songs, appearing on the disc by the same name, was recorded last year by the University of British Columbia […]
Singing in the Schools: Putting Education in Chorus DNA
Winner of Chorus America’s 2010 Education Outreach Award, Chanticleer demonstrates how to grow an education program that touches the lives of the next generation of singers by Kelsey Menehan When Chanticleer started its Singing in the Schools program in 1986 it was a modest affair. The organization was just eight years old, and though it […]
Chorus America: Voices of Reconciliation
For this article, we asked choruses to tell us about a time when they felt an urgency to stage a concert centered on the themes of peace and reconciliation. Some choruses said they were prompted by specific historical events, others by violence in their own backyards, still others by the conditions of poverty and oppression […]
Chorus Niagara’s new take on silent film
On Nov. 5, and 6, Niagara choral group Chorus Niagara, will kick off their 48th performance season by presenting a unique twist on the silent film. They will be screening the 1923 silent film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, and will be performing a live choral “soundtrack” to accompany […]