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Women’s choir serves community for Breast Cancer Awareness
Every college student wants to be a part of a class that really does not seem like a class at all. Over the course of four years very few students are able to say that one of their classes feels like another home. However, for the students of the University of Kentucky Women’s Choir that […]
Advice needed – my choir is grades 3-8, meets once/wk.
OK experts, I need your ideas……I think I’m doing this right but I need some encouragement, new ideas, or whatever else you can offer….I know you are all so busy and i truly appreciate your time. Here’s the scenario: My choir meets weekly for only an hour and a half. We have a wide age […]
Robert Shaw Recording Question
I have been trying to figure out the composer/arranger of two tracks on Robert Shaw’s Angels on High recording. Does anyone know who composed/arranged track 1 O Come Emanuel and track 2 Alleluia on this CD? Thank You, David Burton Director of Choirs Caldwell High School
Name learning games
Hey everyone, Just curious – how do you learn your students’ names? Does anyone have any activities that help with this that are fun? I have problems remembering my 5th graders’ names – I only see them once every three days. Thanks, Mark
Musica International important announcement: now interactive!
Dear friends, Musica International database is now interactive for its 159,000 records describing choral music scores ! It has been a long time that I did not post something on ChoralNet. Indeed, Musica (www.musicanet.org) was very busy developing new features for direct interactivity with its users, ie YOU! Today we have opened the first […]
5th Grade Unison Song
Hi all, Thank you for the two suggestions for 5th grade – I wasn’t clear enough – sorry. Here’s what I’m looking for: -Unison song or something with a really easy countermelody -Medium to slow tempo -Secular Christmas or Wintery Song I have the following right now for them: Christmas is […]
Help for the choir director with no formal training
I can’t read music. However, I have a good strong voice and an ear for music. I’ve sang southern pentecostal gospel music in church for most of my life. I’ve been leading a very small choir for years now, but they need to grow. And, to do that…..I know I need to grow. So, does […]
Question about Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Greetings! Have any of you conducted Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Vaughn Williams for choir, strings, and organ? If so, how do the instrumental parts differ from the version with winds and brass? Does the version for strings and organ simply leave out the wind and brass parts or are the string parts altered? […]
Rock Band Gigs to Raise Funds, Exposure for Community Chorus
MELROSE, MA — Memorial Hall in Melrose isn’t exactly the Stone Pony, and the Polymnia Choral Society, a 57-year-old volunteer chorus headquartered in Melrose, doesn’t usually engender fist pumping at its concerts. The group’s next performance on Dec. 3, for example, titled “A Victorian Christmas,” will feature excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” and other seasonal favorites, […]
Sing it out for your mental health
LIMERICK, IRELAND — Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:01 “CHORAL music is going through a certain renaissance now. It has become a very popular past-time to be involved in,” declares one who knows. Liz Powell is chief executive officer of the Limerick based Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), an organisation that carries the strapline “enchancing life […]