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2011 ILSTU-ACDA Collegiate Retreat “The Young Choral Professional”   September 30th – October 1st, 2011 Friday Afternoon to Saturday Evening Illinois State University Normal, IL   The ACDA Student Chapter at Illinois State University is proud to host a Collegiate Chapter Retreat for student chapters of the American Choral Directors Association! ***Conference Headliner***Brody McDonald Kettering […]

Lee Hoiby, Master of Opera and Song, Dies at 85    It is with the deepest sadness that we report the death of composer Lee Hoiby, one of the greatest masters of opera and song of our time. Mr. Hoiby died on March 28, 2011 at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, following a short […]

THE CROSSING’s NEW CD – IT IS TIME – is released today! Our new CD, IT IS TIME, is released today, March 29, on the Navona Records label, distributed by Naxos. The recording features six works commissioned by The Crossing: stunning unaccompanied choral settings of two of the twentieth century’s most creative and lyrical poets – […]

Friends:   I would like to hear your thoughts on the differences and challenges you perceive (if any) between a VOCAL DIRECTOR (that directs choir(s)) versus a CHORAL DIRECTOR (that directs choir(s)).  I’m 55 and the very best directors I have sung and studied under were NOT great solo/vocal voices, but they were phenomenal choral […]

I am working on a concert of “Big Band and Chorus” music for fall, 2012 with the Greenville Chorale (South Carolina). Looking for good arrangements of standard, “big band” music that includes CHORUS.   Can anyone help?   thanks bing

By Sirotin Sergei MOSCOW — A performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s grandiose oratory “St. John Passion” will start the international festival of Bach’s music in Moscow on March 4. The festival will host musicians from Russia, Germany, France, the US, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands and Brazil, and will last till March 25. The program […]

By Mary Beth McCauley, Chester, Pa. — Even if they don’t sing a single note of music as adults, the performers in the Chester Children’s Chorus will make a difference in the world. Of that much their founding director is convinced. After all, his own participation in the Newark (N.J.) Boys Chorus opened a new […]

By MIKE AVERILL TULSA — Stormy Morton always wanted to sing in a choir. She just never thought it would take being homeless to find her voice. Morton is a member of Voices of Hope, a choir consisting of people staying at The Salvation Army’s Center of Hope and a couple of its employees and […]

Hello all: I’m a composition student at Rowan University in NJ, and I wondered if any of you had suggestions for poetry or texts to set to music. Most of what I write is vocal music, and I’m a big fan of simply worded but elegant poetry (Sara Teasdale and Christina Rosetti are two of […]

Hi all.  I am in need of your collective wisdom.  In a few weeks I am directing a concert that involves an organ and the player will not be able to see me.  I would like to purchase a simple video camera that will be aimed at me and a monitor for the organist.  I also […]