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Hmmmmm…decent choral literature for young women’s voices.  I invite you to take a look at, and listen to, my four pieces for women’s voices on my website:  www.choralmelodies.com. All are a cappella, with original music and original lyrics, and are temporarily free.  I would appreciate knowing whether they fit your definition of “decent,” regardless of whether or […]

Founder and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, Henry Leck, will be honored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Alumni Association on October 8.  Leck, who founded the ICC over 25 years ago, will receive the award for Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Fine Arts & Communications for his accomplishments and blazing significant […]

I recently finished a new setting of “Lux Aeterna” for SATB divisi. voices to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. If you would be interested in acquiring a copy, you can email me at .   Thanks.

Hello all. I am a music teacher in a small county in TN. I teach at 4 different schools.  I was wondering if you could help me out…i've been told by my high school administration that i cannot give a grade and require my choir to perform outside of school hours…and when i told them […]

Hello!  I am in desperate need to know of any decent choral literature for a young all-female group consisting of thirty high school aged singers.  All I can find is either pop or poorly arranged traditional songs.

I have an audition choir of 62 high school freshmen.  I have 21 men – 7 very light tenors and 14 big, confident basses.  The basses as a group can handle their higher range well – most of them are comfortable up to D above middle C. I need to move a few of those […]

I am looking for something for SATB with keyboard or a capella reflecting themes of sibling relations for use in a Christian (UCC) worship service. Surely there is something given all of the OT stories, or even generally about brotherly/sisterly love that I am not thinking of. Help! Ray Klemchuk First Congregational Church of Western Springs, IL […]

Hello all, I am taking a rather large trip with 80 kids. I have a parent who is complainging that I am going to put tape on the doors at night and have drug dogs sniff luggage, etc. before departure. The district supports these measures. She says, “This is too police state” and she will […]

By James Johnson ASCAP 1551618.   This is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) most remarkable and famous poems,  a sonnet written in the  “sprung rhythm” that he devised. The poem is subtitled “To Christ our Lord,” and is characteristic of the ecstatic passion evident in so many poems by Hopkins, an English convert to […]

By James Johnson ASCAP 1551618. I finally completed this work, having begun imagining it many years ago. I believe it is the first musical setting of this darkly humorous poem from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.  Briefly, Alice encounters a pair of chubby twins named Tweedledum and Tweedledee who recite the poem to […]