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Problem with soloists/solos in church choir music?
I have a chorister who has told me REPEATEDLY that she hates when there are solos in our church choir music, even for special events like cantatas or concerts. She says that isn’t really choral music. I have asked her (not sarcastically) what it is, then, but she said she didn’t know, it just wasn’t […]
Salt Lake Choral Artists continues to bloom
By Celia R. Baker It’s difficult to say which choir in Salt Lake City is best — they are numerous, and each has a unique personality and mission. It is easy to say which choral group is the most prolific. Since its inception six years ago, the Salt Lake Choral Artists (SLCA) community choir has […]
New Videos – Listen to informative and inspiring interviews!
Dear friends of choral music, interesting in composer´s feelings while writing new choral works? Our Artistic Director Prof. Aurelio Porfiri talks to: Nelson Kwei (Singapore) Oscar Escalada (Argentina) John Helgen (USA) Please listen to 3 interviews of our choral advisors which we have uploaded on our publishers´ channel on […]
Choral Dresses from Southeastern Apparel
Our choir is looking to purchase uniforms for the first time and all of the girls have agreed on one dress from Southeastern Apparel, the florrid dress, but we have heard from a few people that the quality is not the greatest and these are supposed to last us about 3 or 4 years, I […]
Vaughan Williams choral work to premiere next year
An unperformed choral work composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams more than 100 years ago will be premiered next year. The 45-minute piece, called A Cambridge Mass, was discovered during an exhibition at the Cambridge University Library. Conductor Alan Tongue, who found the piece, said: “I knew immediately that here was a significant work.” […]
Singer Joan Sutherland dies at 83
Joan Sutherland, the Australian soprano, died at her home in Switzerland, near Montreux at the age of 83. She was one of the most acclaimed sopranos of the 20th century. Marilyn Horne, a close friend of Ms. Sutherland confirmed her death. After her Italian debut in Venice, in 1960, Ms. Sutherland was called […]
Experience as a Choir in a Rock Concert
Princeton Pro Musica responded to this ChoralNet advertisement and performed at the Todd Rundgren concert in Morristown, NJ on Sept. 15, 2010. It was a very positive and interesting experience, and one we’d like to share with the choral community through this website. We’d be interested to learn of similar experiences from other choirs!
Jewish Choral Participation Survey Yields Interesting Results
‘Idol’ Worship October 07, 2010 – Deborah Hirsch, Staff Writer If not for a friend in a secular choir who referred him to a Jewish choral gig, Robert Ross might still be singing Christian requiems instead of Jewish psalms. He’d always identified as Jewish, but hardly had any experience with the religion while growing up, […]
“It Gets Better” choral contributions
Here are links to three videos (the only choral ones so far that I have seen) in the “It Gets Better” YouTube series that has grown up around The Trevor Project. They are stirring examples of how finding community through singing together can literally be a life saver. NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Youth […]
O Magnum Mysterium
A new setting of “O Magnum Mysterium”, TTBB a cappella is now available from COLLA VOCE by Tom Council. You can hear two recordings at O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM. Tom Council Dallas, Texas