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In this brief interest session excerpt, famed conductor Christopher Hogwood (d. 2014) shares his thoughts about the value of live choral performance by amateur the choristers.      

A WORD FROM YOUR ACCOMPANIST by Benjamin Amenta          As an adolescent in high school who enjoyed playing solo piano, I was somewhat of a star. Pianists sometimes get to be stars too, you know.  In world class solo piano, some of the brightest were Franz Liszt and Clara Wieck Schumann in the nineteenth […]

FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: MS/JH TENOR-BASS CHOIRS by Nathan Dame   1.  “Courage Lives.”  Mark Patterson.  Heritage/Lorenz 15/2089H. TTB, with piano.  One of my guys’ all-time favorites.  High tessitura and moderately difficult, but the singers “man up” for this one.   2.  “Come Travel with Me.”  Scott Farthing.  Walton/Hal Leonard  HL08501432. TTB, with piano.  A […]

Much to our delight, the Choral Music Baseball Card series has been – pun intended – a big hit!   As a result, we plan to spend some time during the summer developing a couple dozen more cards, and we’d like a little input from the stands.   If there is a significant composer that […]

There are those who despise our military, but the fact remains that the sacrifices of those who have fallen in service to our country provided the freedoms we enjoy.