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So, this may be too specialized or esoteric, but, I’m hoping someone out there has seen this and remembers who composed/wrote/illustrated it.  I’m looking for a little book of simple rounds for beginning choirs, featuring whimsical lyrics, all epitaphs.  

By Jude Rogers A school canteen after-hours, the shutters closed and the chairs stacked, makes for a peculiar music venue. But this is home to the oldest amateur male-voice choir in Wales, which I’m watching rehearse on a quiet Monday evening in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea. The room is a sea of white […]

TALLINN, ESTONIA — Conductor Ingrid Kõrvts and her youth choir enjoyed a good showing at the 10th annual choral music award ceremony at the Estonia Concert Hall on January 30. Kõrvits received the best conductor award, and the Tallinn Secondary School of Music youth choir was selected as Choir of the Year. The Gustav Ernesaks […]

KINGSTON, SURREY, UK — Singers filled a shopping centre with an impromptu escalator performance. In a debut performance by Surbiton Escalator Choral Society, known as SECS, singers filled what is the world’s largest single truss escalator. They gathered in the Bentall Centre for their performance of I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise on Thursday, January […]

Hi All,   I am the head of the vocal department for a new school for the performing arts.  We are partnered with a public library for our school library.  I am looking for some good reference books and electronic resources (databases, etc.) that would benefit high school students who are getting an intensive vocal […]

does anyone know where I can get the anthem “BEHOLD THE DAYS COME SAITH THE LORD” ?

Does anyone know of a Spanish language published version of the street boys’ chorus in Act I of Carmen ?  The original begins “Avec la garde montante, Nous arrivons, nous voila!”  (In English: “We are soldiers marching proudly, Here we come to change the guard.” Thanks very much for your help. Mimi S. Daitz

I’m looking for high-quality arrangements IN PRINT of Broadway and Jazz Standards for a collegiate women’s chorus. I’d prefer pieces with a feminist bent to them, or at least not just sappy “woe is me, he doesn;t love me” pieces. I have access to great jazz combos and other instrumental ensembles.

Join Diana Leland and other choral music colleagues and travel to the prestigious World Symposium on Choral Music in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Save yourself time and money and experience camaraderie by traveling with a group of fellow symposium attendees. You will also have the opportunity to embark on an optional extension to Iguazu Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world.  Due to the heavy […]

I am a healthy 47 year old music educator/ children’s music director who has been directing and teaching for 25 years.  I have a new director of music at the church where I direct 2 children’s choirs ( one ages 3- ktg and one ktg – 5th grade).    Having said all that, my problem […]