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By Holly Hobbs   FAIRFAX, VA — Harmonized voices sounded from within choir director Michael Horanski’s classroom at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax. The school year might be waning, but Horanski’s students were gearing up for a summer of hard-fought competition at the World Choir Games, the toughest challenge they have faced. The choral competition promises […]

I’m setting up a choir at my work to sing for some social events. I will have a very mixed ability choir, and little possibility for accompaniment other than an electric keyboard, maybe a guitar. I’m looking for some simple, fun pieces with simple harmony that I can do in two or three parts. I […]

I have 14 seniors graduating from my advanced choir, and I would like to give them some small token in recognition of their service to the choir. It should be inexpensive and not too personal. Does anyone else do this? Any suggestions?

I’ve been directing and singing counter tenor in the Trinity Compline Choir with a monthly Compline since May of 2009 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Nevada City CA. You may have already downloaded my entire FREE PD library (385 pieces) of music for ATBarB compline from our website: http://www.trinitycomplinechoir.org This hybrid ATBarB voicing was historically […]

I am looking for suggestions of concert pieces which tell a story–sacred or secular.  I have a church choir with about 28 singers who can manage medium to advanced HS level literature.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi all I’m looking for a Scottish or other Celtic song for two female voices in the alto and tenor range.  Something brooding and haunting like The Burning of Auchendoon which we’ve done recently would be perfect. Any ideas? Regards. Wendy

By Kelsey Sharpe   LOS ANGELES — Public K-12 schools have been in a constant struggle to scrape together funding for music programs, decimated by budget cuts. So you can imagine how surprised a large number of middle and high school teachers were when they found out that their 3,000 students could get professional choral training for […]

By Spencer Lenfield   CAMBRIDGE, MA — THE SOUND of a Harvard Commencement, for many, is the sound of choirs singing—exposed, organic, human. “To write for voices alone is a great challenge—it’s one of the purest tests of a composer’s craft and ingenuity,” says Richard Beaudoin, preceptor of music. The subtleties of the unaccompanied voice have […]

WOODLAND HILLS, CA — Students walking along the Mall near the Freudian Sip were greeted Monday with echoes of the Pierce College Choir.  The “flash mob” came following the choir’s performance at the Plaza del Sol Theater at California State University, Northridge. Members dressed in black tops and blue jeans began to warm up outside of […]

Dear Friends,   I am seeking advice from anyone whose chorus has performed Copland’s “Old American Songs” with orchestra.  Do the Irving Fine arrangements work with the orchestration?  In the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue the listings are either “chorus and piano” or “solo and orchestra.”  Also, are the orchestrations fairly light?  I am interested in […]