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I am looking to move away from folders in rehearsal to zippered pouches.  The folders I have been using have significantly decreased in quality and increased in price, and the pouch offers more durability for less than half the cost.   Unfortunately I have only found one source for zippered pouches, at the Container Store […]

The Voices of Baha staged their first performance in Russia in 1993 under the guidance of Tom Price, its conductor. Over the past 17 years, the international choir has performed in 35 countries, this being its first performance in India.     “This is the first time that we have half the songs in Hindi […]

Hello All,   In taking my choir to England and Ireland it finally occured to me, I have nothing written from this region! Does anyone know of anything? We have the American stuff (spirituals, jazz, contemp. like Gawthrop, Childs, etc.) and Palestrina and Victoria, Stravinsky, Mozart, Mendelssohn, etc. But it’s missing something.   Anyone know […]

I am looking for fun Christmas pieces to do with 5th & 6th grade combined choir.  Any suggestions?

Denis Donnelly, who directed the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 15 years and now heads Soundings choir, has received the Herbert Drost Award for distinguished service and support of choral music throughout B.C.   The Scottish-born musician, who studied at the University of Victoria, not only sings but also plays guitar, Irish harp, Renaissance lute and […]

Researcher Barbara Helmrich of Baltimore’s College of Notre Dame examined a sample of 6,026 ninth-graders enrolled in six Maryland school districts. All had completed an introductory algebra course in either eighth or ninth grade and taken the HSA, a test that assesses how well they learned the subject. Helmrich divided the students into three groups: Those who […]

 Our organization, the Young Singers of the Palm Beaches, is in the process of putting together a proposal to do small choirs is after school care programs throughout Palm Beach County. These choirs would not be auditioned and they would be open to any student that wants to do a semester long commitment, 2 days […]

Ben Saunders, the Director of Music at Leeds Cathedral in the North of England said, after he was appointed a number of years ago, that if if inner-city children were not going to come to him, then he was going to send a choral director to them. He was fortunate enough to have a supportive […]

Does anyone have recordings of any of the following a cappella men’s repertoire by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi?   Hauen laulu Hitaat ja karseat hautajaisvalssit Hodie Christus natus est (lat) Julkisuustango O Lord, have mercy on my soul (eng) Oi Herra, armos mulle suo   He is coming to our campus to work with choirs […]

 Friends – I’m trying to find an extraordinary piece or two for our 5-voice vocal group (all professionals) for our worship services on Sunday July 4. (SSATB)   It *could* be an arrangement of a “God and Country” sort of song, as long as it is not “political”, but I’m also trying to think beyond […]