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Singer Barry Manilow’s former publicist now lives in Jacksonville and has a daughter at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Mandarin. That meant that the fourth- and fifth-grade choir at the private Jewish school got to sing backup for the veteran performer when he appeared at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena last month. Manilow asked […]

GIG HARBOR. WA — Jean Kopta has enjoyed a rich musical career. She has taught voice lessons, directed choirs and sang in the Seattle Opera Chorus. But it’s her musical involvement in Gig Harbor, now that she’s retired, that she says beats all those experiences. Kopta, who lives in Olalla, is the founder of the […]

Lewis University will present Philip Spencer, Professor and Director of the Choral and Vocal Music at Joliet Junior College, with the 2011 St. Genesius Award at its annual Arts Gala, to be held Saturday, March 5, on the Lewis campus on Route 53 in Romeoville. Noted for his accomplishments as a music educator, conductor, composer […]

As a new high school choir director I am looking for ways of building a sense of “buy in,” and I want to build a student leadership committee.  I am curious how you all are handling the issue of student leadership and student officers.  Are they nominated by students, or do you assign them?  And […]

Hello friends,   I’ve been searching high and low for a piano/vocal score of Handel’s opera “Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11.  I’ve found a full score, but if a piano/vocal score exists I have not been able to locate it.  Any suggestions?   Many thanks,   Cory

I’m doing a simple two part arrangement of a piece called “Forever Lift your Voice”, music by Mozart, text and arrangement by Partrick Leibergen.  It’s a nice piece with 2 flutes, but I’d love to use another text, possibly in german.  I don’t even know if the song was originally sung or if it’s an […]

Has anyone used Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) for concert tours?  If so how was that experience?  We are considering using this touring company for our next tour of the Baltic States.  Your replies will be sent to me privately.   Thanks so much   Larry Wilson Executive Director Carolina Master Chorale

Colleagues, I am pleased to relate to you the very successful premiere of  “The Classroom,” a children’s opera by my friend and colleague Bruce Craig Roter. The work was premiered earlier this month  at Albany’s New Scotland Elementary School with a second performance at the Massry Center for the Arts on the campus of The […]

BBC Radio Norfolk’s new Choir of the Year competition has received backing from the Diocese of Norwich. Created by Sunday Breakfast presenter Emma Philpotts, it looks to uncover the best choral group in the county. The winner will perform at a Christmas carol concert in Norwich Cathedral on 5 December 2011, and at Norwich Theatre […]

by Thomas Huizenga Thomas Jefferson was a fiddler. Harry Truman played piano. Bill Clinton works the saxophone. But choral conductor and educator Judith Clurman makes them all sing. Clurman commissioned 16 contemporary composers to write short choral pieces based on the words of American presidents for a cycle she calls Mr. President. In celebration of […]