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Here is a song cycle that talks about death. live performance: https://youtu.be/6ryHQoOC3jQ?list=PLpfoJDt3QtN5OEh6YUxpQx4plu7GPWklX buy now link: http://www.billheigen.com/store/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=140 more at www.billheigen.com

2017 is a Carl Sandburg year, the 50th anniversary of the death of the great poet and song collector. I recently revised my choral suite, Remembering All: Five Sandburg Poems, for a forthcoming CD. The score is available at J.W. Pepper to see and hear in its entirety (Remembering All at J.W. Pepper My Score: […]

The Middle School Choral Stimulus Plan is a follow-up article to The Erosion of the Choral Middle Class. This article focuses on ways to reach the average singer within a high school choral program. To view all blogs on the High School Choral Caste System, click here.

Mini-Cantata: The Touch of Christmas, SSA/keyboard Composer Augusta Cecconi-Bates is offering this work free of charge– on line If you wish to have hard copies sent to you via U.S. Post — please request for a quote on fee. If you do use it, please notify composer. Thank you Dr. Augusta Cecconi-Bates www.cecconibates.homestead.com

Here is an exciting arrangement for Elementary level children’s choir of the great spiritual “Swing Low.” Though it eventually includes 3-parts plus a descant, the piece is arranged with layering to make the parts quite accessible. My elementary children absolutely loved singing this arrangement. Although there is no recording of the piece at this time, […]

Beautiful new setting of a Sara Teasdale poem for SATB chorus divisi with soloists unaccompanied by Jeffrey M. Derus.