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Hi All,   I am looking to purchase an audio sound system for my classroom that has digital audio (optical audio) input.  Basically, a receiver and speaker system is what I need.  I already have the cd/dvd player taken care of…any suggestions?   Thanks! Kyle

Greetings All!   Our first concert of the 2011 Season is titled “The Streets of Lancaster” – we will be performing at our concert hall in downtown Lancaster and I am attempting to have each piece reflect a street name in the city. I thought I’d ask for some suggestions to round out my list. […]

By Elizabeth Kramer When the Louisville Bach Society concludes today’s performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor, it will also mark the end of this 47-year-old community choir founded by Melvin and Margaret Dickinson during the first few years of their marriage. The society spans their personal and professional lives here. The Dickinsons […]

By Jay Harvey INDIANAPOLIS — When Henry Leck enters the Indianapolis Children’s Choir rehearsal room in Lilly Hall at Butler University, the rambunctious youngsters quickly settle down and get to work. Harnessing the energy of a large group of schoolchildren isn’t an easy feat, but there’s really no mystery to Leck’s control. For 25 years, […]

by Tricia Tirella North Hudson, NJ — Horace Mann School’s council had attempted to raise funds for a new sound system for the school, but they were only able to raise around a fifth of the cost of the expensive $4,000 system. Nikhil Vats, an eighth grade chorus member, said that the old system’s deficiencies […]

Reno, known as a city of gambling, is now also a festival city of choirs. Happy faces of the singers confirmed this impression after the Closing Event of the second American International Choral Festival (AICF, 4 – 8 May) in the United States. “This is the best festival so far,” raved U.S. conductor James Reddan […]

I am looking for the publication information for Festival Alleluia by James Chepponis.  Can anyone supply details, please?   Many thanks in advance.

I’m doing Philip Lawson’s arrangement of “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid which features famous orchestral excerpts in the middle, when the fish and their instruments are listed.  I knew most of them, but cannot name the tune that is used for “The Lings on the strings” measure 94-96.  For those of you who […]

I’d love some suggestions regarding favorite Orff and Koday instruments for high school kids. I plan on using some intruments in my beginning choir, such as song flutes, xylophones and percussion. I’d appreciate some ideas, song books, texts and strategies for using these types if instrument training in a choral setting. I know the actuall […]

Greetings!   I am hoping to get some information from those of you who direct an adult church and have a separate accompanist.  When your accompanist needs to get a sub for a rehearsal, what are your procedures?    Specifically I am wondering how far in advance does your accompanist let you know of the […]