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A nice series of posts about how to accompany for choir –    Here’s part one.   And here is part two.   And a sampling from the articles: 5. Learn to play all of the voice parts together. Pay special attention to key changes, meter changes, accidentals, and any places where dissonance results between […]

I love this new video by Chanticleer. It is made completely from cell phones and web cams – a perfect marriage of choral music and technology:     Keep it up guys – your excellence and creativity inspires us all.

Tell me where is the road I can call my own, That I left, that i lost, so long ago. All these years I have wondered, oh when will I know, There’s a way, there’s a road that will lead me home. After wind, After rain, when the dark is done, As i wake from […]

Join thousands of choirs around the world as we unite in the celebration of World Choral Day on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Millions of singers across the globe have been involved in World Choral Day concerts, festivals, sing-alongs, choral seminars, Days of Friendship and other events that celebrate our unity in choral music. The American […]

  From John Burchfield c/o Jeffrey Tucker

450 choirs from the UK registered to sing Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus as part of a project called “Sing Hallelujah”, sponsored by the BBC and the English National Opera as a classical-music promotion. As part of the publicity, BBC’s Radio 3 created this mash-up of dozens of different choirs singing the piece:     I love the […]

Amazing what a vocal ensemble can do nowadays, even if it's an ensemble of clones:     h/t The Fredösphere

Last summer, I found myself dealing with the travel challenge of going half way around the world for a choral event, only to need to travel even further away for each succeeding event. It became apparent I would be traveling more if I came back home between destinations, than if I just kept traveling east. The solution resulted in my […]

With special bonus: shadow art!  

I saw this article today on the Chronicle of Higher Education – and it makes a lot of sense: train future teachers like we train doctors. And by future teachers, I mean all future choral conductors.   Read about it:  Teacher-training programs need to be revamped to focus more on hands-on, clinical instruction, similar to […]