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  Leg Lamp Productions is proud to announce the release of their latest film, Carmina Burana: A Visual Experience.  A film based on the Burbank Chorale’s May 14, 2011 performance in Zipper Hall at The Colburn Children’s School in Los Angeles, California of Carl Orff’s classic piece Carmina Burana. this new film was nearly a […]

I am searching for women’s choir repertoire by a living female composer with a connection to the Renaissance period. For example: the text might be a Renaissance sonnet, or, the work might be an arrangement of a Renaissance madrigal. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Next year’s pops concert will be an all-Motown blowout.  A very cool idea if I don’t say so myself, and the kids are all really excited about it already. We’re going to tie it into English and history lesson units on the civil rights movement and related literature. Of course there is such a wealth […]

Can anyone help me find some beautiful music to fill very specific parameters?   One of the choirs I direct is a small unaccompanied SAB ensemble of 18 very mixed voices – the singers are mostly in their 20’s and 30’s – some read music and some don’t.     We have no tenors  – for […]

We observe Pentecost and Memorial Day on Great Sacred Music this week. The show airs each Sunday on http://theclassicalstation.org from 8 – 11 a.m. eastern. Your host is Rob Kennedy. ————————- 08:00:20 Gregorian chant: Veni sancte spiritus (Sequence, mode I) Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos, Francisco Lara 08:04:26 T. Tertius Noble: Souls of […]

Once a year my church choir performs 30-45 minutes during the service.  We have a budget for about 10 instrumentalists.  We have performed Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Webber Requiem, Clausen’s A New Creation.  Any new suggestions would be appreciated.  The congregation enjoys upbeat selections as well.

Composer Dan Visconti tells us “…why it’s so important for ensemblhes to make sure they keep living composers apprised of performances of their own works.” http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/an-open-letter-to-performers-of-new-music/

This group is 16 high school singers, intermediate ability. Need varied repertoire ideas for various concert themes: holiday, winter, spring and varying styles, accompanied and acappella. Group only meets 1/2 hours 3 times a week. Thanks!

I’m hoping someone can advise me on the following questions regarding Imant Raminsh’s gorgeous and somewhat daunting (for our little non-audition choir, anyway) There I Will Stay with You, Whirling:   Page 8, measure 60 is marked allargando, followed by a lunga fermata. Do we remain “more majestically slow” after the fermata — so that […]

The NDSU Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Jo Ann Miller, received the Abbess Cika’s Golden Cross as the 1st place winner in the mixed choir category at the 8th Biannual Zadar International Choral Competition held in Zadar, Croatia on May 19, 2012.  Choirs participating in the competition came from Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, […]