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I don’t do the repertoire selections for my group, but I’m asking this to save time for our director.   Our volunteer adult ensemble usually performs large-scale works with full orchestra.    We’d like to get out more into our community and sing, but we need a new repertoire set to do that.   Could […]

Dear Choral Friends,    I am doing a concert next fall with Canterbury Choral Society a wonderful guitarist, dancers and full orchestra entitled “Latin Rhythms.  We will do a couple choruses from “La Vida Breve”, have the guitar perform solo and with some of the folk dancers.  Of course, I need to do something with […]

TROY, NY — A choral parade combining four university choirs, accompaniment broadcast via WRPI, and a route leading from the Hudson River to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus will be a first-of-its-kind experience for Rensselaer and the city of Troy next month. The “Troy Paradio” performance is the opening piece of a larger concert presented as […]

By GUY D’ASTOLFO YOUNGSTOWN — Hae-Jong Lee is plunking keys on a piano in his office at Youngstown State University. The choral music professor is demonstrating how disparate notes blend together to make a perfect-sounding chord. It’s lesson, he says, that applies not only to music, but to society. To turn his analogy into reality, […]

Does anyone know exactly what Bernstein means by “molto cant.”?  This indication occurs throughout the orchestra parts in the Chichester Psalms.  Obviously, I would think “molto cantabile” but cantabile often doesn’t match the musical context in which this indication appears.   Thanks DM

My new arrangement of Morgen! (Tomorrow!) by Richard Strauss (originally for voice & piano) is now available for pre-publication sales from ECS Publishing. It is arranged for SATB chorus and piano or chamber orchestra (3 horns, harp, violin solo, strings). The piano/choral score (which is only four pages long) is catalog number 7774, the full score […]

By Marcia Adair LOS ANGELES — Orchestral musicians had their date with Internet destiny a few weeks ago with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Now the spotlight moves to choral singers with Thursday’s release of the Virtual Choir. Los Angeles-based choral composer Eric Whitacre created a choir that allows lone choristers from Lebanon, Kazakhstan and Madagascar […]

Hi! I’m new to ChoralNet and wasn’t sure where to put this post but I thought I’d give it a shot here:   -I’m a newer teacher in music living in Ohio and considering moving beyond the state because of my concerns with jobs in Ohio.  In particular I’d like to relocate to Illinois if […]

As a former TA, I can assure you that the best way to control TA’s is to beat the living hell out of them.  I’m serious about this.  It worked for me.

I am seeking general resources for Lithuanian choral octavos — a list of music publishers that carry folk and art music octavos from Lithuania and other Baltic states would be useful.   Also, I am wondering if anyone knows of a choral arrangement of the lullaby “Liūliai, dukrelį” as sung by the great Veronika Povilionienė?  […]