It’s time, kids! The winter break has ended (or is about to). It is time for us to emerge from our drowsy, over-fed mid-winter holiday slumber and awaken our musical ears for the second half of this glorious choral season. Of course, during this choral halftime you have no doubt invested time pondering your game […]
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Name That Choir Tune (No. 17)
Saturday Respite: Ooga chacka!
Sorry, yet another sound that will infest your ears all day . . .
CJ Replay: Poulenc’s “Petites Voix”
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Francis Poulenc’s Petities Voix 1936” by Dorothy A. Lincoln) Petites Voix was written later in the same year that Poulenc wrote the music for Sept Chansons. Also that year he finished composing the Litanies lla Vierge Noir, a work for women’s or children’s voices and organ. […]
CJ Replay: How Little Has Changed
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Quality in Choral Groups” by Harry Robert Wilson) Perhaps it is time that we choral conductors re-examine and re-assess our purposes and objectives. Have our choral groups gradually become organizations devoted to entertainment of both singers and listeners? Has the emphasis unconsciously been placed upon the […]