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Stephen Chatman Given SOCAN Jan V. Matajcek Classical Music Award
“The Canadian Music Centre is extremely pleased to report Associate Composer Stephen Chatman has been given the SOCAN Jan V. Matajcek Classical Music Award. The Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award recognizes Stephen Chatman’s overall success as a composer in his genre and comes just after his being awarded the Outstanding Classical Composition Award […]
Choral festival roster takes hit from economy
BY DIANE TOROIAN KEAGGY > The American International Choral Festival debuts Wednesday with dramatically fewer choirs than anticipated and an uncertain outlook. Originally billed as a major celebration of the world’s best choral ensembles, the festival was to draw 2,000-plus singers, judges and teachers to St. Louis. Now, only 400 participants are expected to […]
Mormon Tabernacle Choir enters radio hall of fame
Radio industry recognizes program launched in 1929 By R. Scott Lloyd Church News staff writer Just before the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's program "Music and the Spoken Word" was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in a ceremony Nov. 6, the audience — and radio listeners tuned in to the broadcast of the ceremony […]
Do “open-access” singing courses put experienced singers off?
I have recently moved to a new town and plan to set up some kind of regular community choir in the future. As a first step, in order to get myself known, and to attract people who might not think of themselves as ‘singers’ I plan to run a six-week “training course”. My emphasis […]
Could this be blasphemy in this forum?
I’ve been leery of posting this in one of my professional arenas, but I feel like you may be the only voices of reason or understanding. (and I’m not even sure if there’s a forum for this sort of discussion) By all accounts, I’m successful. 7 prior years teaching elementary general music with a […]
Repertoire Presentation for Choral Literature Class- Andrew Pollard
Hello,My name is Andrew Pollard, and I have currently been given a repertoireproject to present in my Choral Literature class. I was wondering if youcould give me some suggestion of pieces I should do for my project. We areto come up with a compile list of 10 repertoire pieces and presentinformation to the class, thus […]
Widening the net – how to recruit a wider age range for a community choir?
The reality for me (at least here in the UK) is that most of the community choirs and singing workshops that I have ever lead are made up of white, middle class women in their 50s and older! I know some choirs manage a wide spread of age ranges and backgrounds, but most of […]
Vocal Pedagogy Books
I have read several articles and some research on the male voice change. I have read James C. McKinney’s book and he briefly addresses the voice change. Are there any other pedagogy books that address the voice change to a greater extent?
John Rutter: High School Music
I am working on a project for a choral literature class that I am currently taking in school. I am hoping for some other suggestions (besides Open Thou Mine Eyes, the piece I am working on right now) of John Rutter choral works that are standard and maybe not so standard in the repertoire. Thank […]
Vocal Placement in the Choir
Generous Colleagues, My name is Rodger Guerrero, and I have been a high school choral conductor in California or 25 years. I have also recently returned to the Univ. of Southern California doctoral choral program (part-time). In one of my current courses I am responsible for generating topics for two Roundtable-like discussions. One topic concerns […]