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My choir was invited to sing at the inauguration of our new governor in January.  I am looking for repertoire suggestions of unaccompanied literature, 3-4 minutes in length, appropriate for this event.    Thanks in advance,   Steve Grives – South Dakota State University

After a yearlong search process, Northwest Choral Society welcomes Alan Wellman as its new Music Director Alan Wellman Mr. Wellman is pleased and proud to take the baton and conduct his inaugural concert as the newly appointed director of the Northwest Choral Society. Collaborative pianist Lori Lyn Mackie will accompany the chorus. The Northwest Choral […]

LANCASHIRE, UK — A conductor who commutes from Bologna to Preston each week to lead a choir has said there are “more opportunities” for choral music in Lancashire.   Marco Fanti, 34, became conductor and director of the Preston Cecilian Choral Society in September.   He now makes a 2,000 mile (3,200km) round trip each […]

My high school group does a spring show every year.  Our theme for this one is “If Music Be the Food of Love.”  The music will deal with food, love, and the love of food.  This will be a lighter concert and this sort of repertoire is really not my strong point.     We […]

Trying to track down publisher of Benjamin Britten’s “May”–a charming unison & piano setting of “Now is the month of maying.” According to notes accompanying the New London Children’s Choir CD “Pigs Could Fly”  it’s published by Yearbook Press but I can’t find online a music publisher by that name.  Would love to include it […]

Hi, I work with middle school aged students.  Every once in a while I get a girl that doesn’t know where her head voice is.  She’s an “Alto” and hates to sing high.  One thing a teacher taught me is to have them humm and “whimper” like a little puppy.  When they “whimper” back in […]

Organist, choir director at Belmont church has endowment established in her honor   BOSTON — Like a lot of ambitious young New York musicians, Avery Griffin dabbles in a bit of everything, from singing during the holidays with the St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Choir to writing experimental music.   If not for the choir director […]

Need one more song for your holiday concert? How about “Joy Shall Be Yours in the Morning” from WIND IN THE WILLOWS, music by William Perry.   Start early for next year with the hysterical “The Day Before Christmas,” included in the Chicago Symphony Chorus’ “Best of Yule” last year, commissioned by them and performed […]

Indigenous Australians are five times more likely to experience mental illness than the rest of the population – a problem often exacerbated by their reluctance to seek help. Now a new program’s been developed to tackle mental health issues through song. Queensland’s Aboriginal and Islander Health Council has set up five community choirs to attack […]

Dear Colleagues,   A concert planned for next spring, to include the Faure Requiem (1893 edition), was to be all-French, with a first half consisting of Varese’s Octandre and Dusapin’s Dona Eis.   I’m considering broadening the repertory so that it’s not a single-nationality program.  I’ve had many ideas for the first half, but would […]