Essential Voices USA, Judith Clurman, Music Director and Conductor, announces the release of CHRISTMAS JOY, a new collection of holiday music that was all recently commissioned by Essential Voices USA. The centerpiece of the recording is “Christmas Joy,” a through-composed work, scored for chorus and string quartet. The arrangement and text adaptation are by Josh […]
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Still Time to Apply! Chorus America Music Education Partnership Grants
Chorus America invites nonprofit organizations to apply to the Music Education Partnership Grants program, which is designed to support collaborations between community organizations dedicated to choral singing and schools serving early childhood-12th grade. Multi-year grants will provide up to $50,000 USD over 2 years to support collaborations during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years. In […]
Musica Viva NY Performs CRIMSON ROSES: A Choral Concert of Commissioned Works by Joseph Turrin, Gilda Lyons, and Richard Einhorn, Sunday, Dec 3 at All Souls, NYC
featuring special guest mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade New York, NY (For Release 11.01.23) — Hailed as “a treasured institution (Front Row Center),” New York City’s leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, highlights one of its most important missions: the commissioning of new works. On Sunday, December 3, 2023, at 5:00 p.m., at All Souls on […]
Coming Soon! The Craig Hella Johnson Series
Coming Soon! The Craig Hella Johnson Series Coming Soon! The Craig Hella Johnson Series ECS Publishing Group is proud to announce the new Craig Hella Johnson Series that will debut in 2024. Johnson has been an advocate for creative, newly-written works for decades, and we are excited to collaborate to bring choirs repertoire […]
10 New Choral Compositions Added to the PROJECT : ENCORE Catalog!
It is a great joy to announce this quarter’s marvelous new compositions accepted into the PROJECT : ENCORE Catalog of Contemporary Choral Music: Allahu Echad (God is One)- Joshua Fishbein Amid the Scent of Absinthe- John Rommereim A Riddle- Julian David Bryson Be Like Jane- Michael Bussewitz-Quarm Four Love Songs- Jim Taylor I Am Here- […]
Requesting Choral Directors to have your kids sing a climate anthem: I Wanna Be Cool
The Be Cool! Campaign will recruit 100,000 young folks to sing on a chorus of a new climate song, “I Wanna Be Cool.” With every youth we recruit, we will ask for a pledge for their family to take action with impact on the climate crisis. Music Declares Emergency, together with The ClimateMusic Project, is […]