(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. […]
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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 […]