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By Fiona Maddocks Walking into the Royal Festival Hall last Sunday afternoon, it was as if one had stepped backstage by mistake. In a mood of pre-show frenzy, the entire audience seemed to be straightening shirts, brushing down jackets, fixing up hair, combing, smoothing, pinning, crimping, ready for the big moment when, each with their […]

Hello!   A friend of mine–a German conductor, actually!–has asked me whether I know of any published scores of Bach Cantata 192 (Nun Danket Alle Gott) with an excellent English singing translation printed in the score. Are there any which you know of? I can’t find a way to search the Drinker Library catalog on […]

I know this piece well (having sung it before). So, I am wondering if the first 22 or 29 measures would be suitable for a HS advanced mixed ensemble?

Hello colleagues,   I am wondering if anyone perfromed Navidad Nuestra and could share some thoughts. Specifically I am interested in  how did you interpret the rhythm in La Peregrinacion? Did you keep 3+3 or use the tension 2 against 3? What instruments you used? Any problems?  regards, Katya

I am working on this piece with my concert choir for festival this spring.  I remember years ago hearing a story about how this song was inspired/written.  I can’t remember the whole story.  Is anyone familiar with this piece and its history?  Thanks for your help! 

By Pat Gee HONOLULU — The Rev. Daniel J. Werning led the Hawaii Sacred Choir during practice at the Cathedral of St. Theresa on Thursday. The nondenominational choir, which includes youth and adult singers, will give its first public concert next Saturday at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. Most members of the new Hawaii Sacred […]

BY MARIE HAVENGA mhavenga(a)grandhaventribune.com The voices of Grand Haven High School choir students span the globe — as well as the Internet and iTunes. There’s a check for $46.34 sitting in the office of the school’s vocal music teacher, Shirley Lemon, that proves it. “We received our first check from iTunes,” Lemon said. “I haven’t […]

Greetings, all.   We have composer Samuel Adler visiting Samford University soon and I’m looking for suggestions on two quality pieces for my choir to perform.     First, what suggestions do you have for his best pieces?  (non-organ works for this concert – need unaccompanied or piano)   One thought is this piece I […]

  The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will honor the memory of longtime choral professor James Dearing in a concert on Sunday, January 16, 2011. The event will feature over 125 current and past students of the IUP choral program in a grand concert befitting of a fine teacher, conductor, […]

Hello….my school (a 6 – 12 private school) wants to post a video clip of the students singing “White Christmas” on the school’s website.  Our Tech Director feels this would be a breach of the copyright law, and I’d like to know, FIRST, if that is true.   IF the answer is yes, how to we […]