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Choral Conducting Assistantships available for students seeking a Master of Music degree in Conducting at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. Study with Professors Henry Leck, Eric Stark, James Mulholland or Tim Brimmer.  One of the two assistantships involves considerable accompanying. Deadline for application is February 15, 2011. For information contact Prof. Henry Leck    

Curtis E. Hansen, age 90, of Edina, MN, passed away peacefully on January 31, 2011.  As one of seven original founders of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in 1959, he was the only one remaining until his death.  After graduation from Amery, WI High School and St. Olaf College (where he studied and sang with F. Melius Christiansen), he […]

Hello community! Anyone know of a good arrangement of Oh, Susanna by Stephen Foster?  I know there are lots published out there, but hoping to separate the wheat from the chaff based on your collective wisdom.   Thanks so much,   J. Montigne

See the details here: http://jpalhe.cnu.edu/   “Welcome to the first edition of the Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education, an on-line peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the enrichment of leadership in the performing arts in higher education.   Our Goals are: To promote scholarship applicable to performing arts leadership. To provide juried research in the […]

By Angel Carpenter EUGENE, OR – Louise Kienzle, the music teacher at Humbolt Elementary School in Canyon City, has been honored with a statewide music education award. She received a plaque for the 2011 Excellence in Elementary Music Education Award on Jan. 15, at the Oregon Music Educators Association conference in Eugene. Kienzle teaches music […]

By Sharon Lee Tegler SEVERNA PARK, MD — The lyrics to the song “Sanctuary” are simple, but the group of individuals practicing it Thursday evening beamed with pleasureas they combined four layers of harmony with several different rhythms and counter rhythms. The singers were members of a new choir called LifeSongs, which meets weekly in […]

I’m looking for a companion piece to Dido and Aeneas (concert version). I’ve been thinking of a Baroque or contemporary cantata on a mythological theme, or a second half of Shakespeare settings from various periods.  This is for a small, well-balanced community chamber choir of 20-25 amateur singers with minimal sight-reading skills. We may be […]

For anyone who has performed the Bach St. Matthew: as you know the work is scored for double chorus, and in the opening chorus the first section is written for Chorus I, with short interjections in Chorus II (“Wen?” “Wie?” “Was?”, etc.).  I’m wondering if anyone has experimented with starting this chorus and singing most […]

  PROJECT ÌNIN 2012  ONE EARTH CHOIR            © Anna Bacchia 2010                     ÌNIN 2012 – ONE EARTH CHOIR  ‘on the Path of the Peoples’ –                               One Choir spread around the whole Globe.             Voices in cities all over the World will sing together the same music.             […]

I am a student at Arizona State University in the Choral Methods class and our class would like to survey K – 12  music teachers about the different methods of teaching Sight Singing. While we realize that this is not scientific, we are hoping to get a sense of what people are currently doing. 1. […]