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Can anyone provide samples of surveys they have used with their singing members as a needs assessment tool regarding broad aspects of the choral experience, chorus administration, performance/rehearsal schedule, etc.  Thank you

I would like to be in touch with other choruses which were organized and/or function as a “membership” corporation, either formally pursuant to the nonprofit laws of their state, or informally by way of philosophy and operations; i.e. where the organization is member driven, in terms of members having voting rights, electing directors to the […]

Carl “Chip” Stam died on May 1, 2011.   Chip served as the founding director of the Institute for Christian Worship at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2000, where he was Professor of Church Music and Worship. Chip received his B.A. and M.M. from UNC-CH, before ministering from 1972-1981 as the Pastor of Worship […]

By Tom Murray EDMONTON – For Pro Coro artistic director Richard Sparks it’s an emotional time. After 12 years at the helm of the 30-year-old Edmonton choir, he’s in the process of rehearsing Pro Coro for the very last time. Bach’s St. John Passion will be the concert he signs out on to commit full-time […]

Can somebody please help me out of a maddening dilemna: an inability to extract sense out of websites that proclaim knowledge of Rautavaara’s SATB version (NOT TTBB nor SSAA) of Joulun virsi?  It does exist (well: that’s what they all say); and I have a recording of it as sung SATB.   I’d be grateful […]

Hi all,   I am writing a piece in a slowish tempo and for awhile I will just have the text/melody in soprano voice. The other voices will be supplying some gently moving harmonies on ooh, ah, or oh. As a conductor which of these vowels appeals to you the most when you are making […]

I went to a small undergraduate college that paid for our choir trips. I am soon to be attending a large, state school for graduate studies…do they pay for hotel, travel, etc. for trips they take? The trip is to sing at a convention.   I just wondered how things work at big schools.   […]

Dear ChoralNet Colleagues,   How does your choir deal with prospective members’ information?  Good old pen-to-paper forms?  Or do you have your form online?   How about audition scheduling?  Come sign up on the door or email for an appointment?   If your organization has an online solution for gathering information from auditioners and/or for […]

By Tamara Straus   Timothy Seelig has been in the gay choral movement for 25 years.   The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has never really lacked for drama or enthusiasm. It is the world’s biggest gay men’s chorus. It is also the first. The chorus’ premiere concert took place on the steps of City […]

Has anyone heard who will be publishing this anthem, and when it will be available? I searched online (and with the usual Rutter publishers) and didn’t find anything. My experience with music publishers is that they try to get things out as soon as possible while they’re “hot”, often having them prepared to go even […]