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So, the title of the post pretty much says it all.  If you could only pick 2 or 3 anthems/octavos for your church male ensemble, what would those pieces be?  It can be for any combo of voices – TB, TBB, TTBB.   Thanks!

My contract is coming up for review and I was considering asking for more paid vacation. Currently I have 4 sundays paid vacation and have been employed there for 20 years. I was just wondering what other church music directors have as far as paid vacation. Thanks.

The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America, founded in 2005, will inaugurate a new Festival of American Vocal Music for American and German high school age youth at the medieval Mansfeld Castle outside of Wittenberg, Germany this summer.  Running from July 30 to August 6, 2011, this festival will unite twenty select young American singers from […]

After a horrible week last week–don’t ask, but snotty and nasty stuff–I began this Monday ready to start fresh and get down to the business of getting things in order for three up-coming performances in June.  One of my errands was to get out my snail mailing for those concerts and I stopped by my […]

Dallas to Host American Choral Directors Association 2013 Annual Conference   DALLAS, TX–   Dallas has been selected as the host city for the American Choral Directors Association’s (ACDA) 2013 annual conference. The ACDA will bring its 9000 attendees into the city March 13-16, 2013, for the first time since 1977. From left to right: […]

For my 2011 Holiday Concert with my group, The Heritage Singers of Jacksonville, I am considering a concert of Winter Holiday-themed choral music which positively exploits the potential for creative and frequently changing standing positions within the performance space, i.e., “spatial” arrangements, such as antiphonal (front to back, and or side to side, using the […]

By Vicki Grooms MYRTLE BEACH, SC — As an architect of many musical productions at Carolina Forest High School, Kraig McBroom’s efforts have been appreciated by many across the Grand Strand, but Tuesday night, he received the ultimate award from his school district by being chosen Horry County Schools Teacher of the Year. District educators […]

RedHouse Arts is, among other things, a distributor for independent choral composers.  We need good recordings of some of our anthems and are looking for choirs willing to barter with us.  Here’s how it works: we provide you the score; you provide us with a recording by a mutually determined date.  Please take a look […]

Hello,  Colleagues.   Pardon my off-topic query. After making little vocal progress in college 20 years ago i have found a teacher with whom I feel I am making leaps and bounds with! She mentioned (before she knew my true age) about the young singers’ contests run by the Met. After finding I am in […]