Many interesting and accessible works for children’s chorus are the result of a commission from a particular children’s chorus or choral event. Commissioning a new work allows young singers the opportunity to work with a composer or arranger and to gain knowledge of the creative process from concept to concert. Children can be involved in […]
Music With Sacred Text: Vital to the Choral Art
Music with Sacred Text: Vital to Choral Music and to the Choral Art Choral music educators recognize that choral music may fulfill diverse objectives. At one end of the spectrum is aesthetic education and artistic performance which can insure development of musicality and sensitivity. At the opposite end of the spectrum […]
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Sunday Inspiration: Bruckner Mass in e minor (Gloria)
CJ Replay: Thoughts on Adjudication
As adjudicators, we have often been asked, “What do you expect from the students performing, the teachers directing, and thee festival workshop host or hostess?” The answer to all three is: attitude, expertise, and consistency. These are criteria we apply to ourselves. First and foremost we project, and demand in return, a positive […]
CJ Replay: Dawson and the Copyright Act
No twentieth-century composer of choral music has experienced more copyright infringements than William L. Dawson. In the past three years more than 10 new publications have appeared on the market in which arrangers have either consciously or subconsciously “borrowed” compositional and textual ideas invented by Dawson. Melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic motives from Dawson’s arrangement of […]