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Columbia County Choral Society New Director Embraces Job
Augusta, Georgia – Columbia County Choral Society’s new artistic director has dedicated his career to music. “I don’t know if I could do anything else except for be a musician,” Dr. Timothy Powell said. “I’ve got a real love for it. For me, it’s really who I am. It’s not just what I do.” […]
Why secular cantus firmi in 15th C Masses?
Dear Colleagues, I’ve agreed to do a lecture demonstration about fifteenth century L’Homme Armee masses before our April concert featuring Karl Jenkins’ contemporary L’Homme Armee mass. What I haven’t been able to determine is just why composers started using secular melodies like L’Homme Armee as the cantus firmi for their sacred masses, and why the […]
Inciting a Listening Response
I am currently writing about approaches and procedures that incite engaged and meaningful listening, specifically in children. Just as getting a child (or adult) to think isn’t as simple as yelling “Think!”, as educators, we need something more than yelling “Listen!”. What are some things you use in order to illicit engaged listening?
Looking for Songs on the Theme of Light with ORGAN
Greetings: I have a new wonderful professional choir that is presenting its Inaugural concert this Fall. The concert is entitled “illumination” and features many great songs with references to light (thanks to helpful suggestions here on choral net) The major work is Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna with organ. I am desperately looking for […]
Philippine Madrigal Singers wins at the Arezzo International Choral Competition
The Philippine Madrigal Singers was conferred the prestigious “Guidoneum Award 2010” by the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo, organizers of the Arezzo International Choral Competition, one of the top competitions in the choral world. The foundation honored the Madrigal Singers for the artistic and choral promotion activity that they carried out after they won the European Grand […]
The Wexford Carol
RedHouse Arts is pleased to announce the addition of Larry Finke’s arrangement of The Wexford Carol to its catalog. This simple and elegant SATB arrangement (wifh oboe obligato and piano accompaniment) will eastily become a Christmas favorite. Please visit www.redhouseartspace.com/choral-music.html to see a sample of this piece or to place an order. Thanks!
Legal concerns for community choir
We are starting a community choir and need to know about performance permissions and other issues. We plan to do 2 concerts per year in our public high school. We have purchased our music from one of the main online music stores. Do we need an Ascap or other license for every single piece we perform? […]
New B Minor Mass edition
I’m doing the B Minor Mass in the spring and we’re going to splurge for the Bärenreiter edition. But I see they’ve come out with a “revised” version this month. This adds quite a bit to the cost, not because the scores cost much more, but because the dozen or so of my singers who […]
Music for the Mines: Feiszli helps engineers reach their potential
At the urging of her parents, Marcie Hinker joined choir at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Her parents, Paul and Roben Hinker, both were members of the choir when they attended the School of Mines in the late ’80s. They spoke highly of the program and its director, James Feiszli. “I learned he […]
George Steinbrenner gave Dunedin High School singers their big break
It is definitely a fact: George Steinbrenner was a very generous man, and his generosity was not only frequent, but spontaneous. In 1984, I agreed to chaperone a group of Dunedin High School singers called the Falconaires to the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Tampa, where they were asked to sing at a meeting of […]