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    NEW MUSIC WEEK starts next Monday (July 23), right here at ChoralBuzz!

Looking for new choral literature?   Then join ChoralBuzz for New Music Week, July 23-28!

The folks at the Discovery Channel may have "Shark Week," but here at ChoralBuzz, we have "New Music Week."   Beginning Monday we will share a different world premiere each day from among the performances at the 2013 ACDA National Conference.  This will not only be fun and useful, but it's what YOU want!  In […]

While the world's athletes prepare for competition at the Olympics in London, over three hundred choirs are gathering to compete in the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The event launched on July 4 and will run through the 14th.  This is the first time the World Choir Games have been held in the United […]

"QR" – two letters of the alphabet.  "QR Code" – those square bar codes.   Quick Response codes (ah…Quick Response!) are EVERYWHERE these days.  You scan them with your smartphone and woosh! you are transported to a website with more information about the product.  From Kellogg's to the US Marines, it seems everyone is getting […]

Available July 3 from your favorite bookseller (online or off), Murder for Choir, is the first in Joelle Charbonneau’s Glee Club Mystery series. Penguin, who designates the book appropriate for 18-and-up, summarizes the novel:   Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen […]

Join me on July 4 along with the combined choirs of our US Military singing "The Star-Spangled Banner". Forward this video* to your singing friends, choir members, relatives….anyone that would like to sing along with our US national choral treasures, the Navy Sea Chanters, Army Chorus, Army Soldiers' Chorus, Air Force Singing Sergeants, and Washington […]

It hit 104 in Alabama yesterday and I know it was hotter in other parts of the United States.   So let’s think about something else – winter!   A little Debussy to brighten our Sunday:    

I'm getting ready to start the planning process again for my 2012-2013 literature.  Most of you are probably ahead of me!   I am looking at the composer anniversaries in 2012 to help guide my selection of literature for the fall.   I consulted this list of the Top 5 Composer anniversaries in 2012 and […]

(From the Choral Journal article "Brickbats and Bouquets (or An Open Letter to Publishers)," by Maurice King)   We congratulate and comment to purchasers, those publishers who DO include the following helpful features in their choral publications:   1. Stapling sheets together. 2. Avoiding loose (single) sheets when at all possible. (We have before us […]