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The choral season is starting to wind down.  For some colleagues on the collegiate level, it’s already over.   We’re currently (or about to be) consumed with the performance of final concerts, the calculation of grades, the smoothing of students’ end-of-the-year emotional melt-downs, and attending to all of the miscellany associated with shuttering a choral […]

Increasingly, it seems, filmmakers are turning to choral musicians as subject matter for their films.  We have shared a number of examples in this space, and several movies were featured in a film festival format during the recent ACDA National Conference in Dallas.   Here is a new short film from Michael Stillwater (producer of […]

THANKS, DAD! by Mike Doan          On a train journey carrying the San Francisco Opera Company cast to Los Angeles, the small child climbed on the lap of the famous singer, Salvatore Baccaloni.        “So, young man,” said the well-known vocalist. “Are you going to be a tenor like your father when you grow up?” […]

While, yes, this is a promotion for Verison’s “How Sweet the Sound” competition, it is still an amazing (albeit brief) sampler of some of the current trends in gospel choral music.  

COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig   (Each week we look at a piece of useful repertoire from the ChoralNet Community Composition Showcase.  A variety of voicings and levels of difficulty will be presented.  Enjoy!)   Let The Children Play (and Learn in Peace) – for Newtown SAB or SAA and piano   by David Avshalomov (click for PDF and AUDIO) Level: […]