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Can anyone recommend a good resource for the Britten A Ceremony of Carols as it pertains to issues of pronunciation?  Obviously there is the pronunciation “guide” in the front, but given that virtually all recordings of the piece are at least subtly different from one another (the Shaw recording, as I recall, changes pronunciation style […]

Does anyone know what Eleanor Daley’s intended pronunciation was for her “Balulalow?”  Specifically, the words Jesu, spreit, Balulalow and gloir.  Compared with the text of the Balulalow from Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, it is clear that some of the Middle English words (I would imagine, wherever the rhythm made it possible) have been adapted… i.e., […]

“October 25, 2010 (Kelowna, BC) Canadian Music Centre associate composer Stephen Chatman was awarded the Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his work Earth Songs, recorded on CMC’s Centrediscs label. Earth Songs, appearing on the disc by the same  name, was recorded last year by the University of British Columbia […]

Hi folks, I’m in a bit of a pickle. I need to make line tapes for a few pieces I have to sing. I’ve to learn them by myself, I’m off travelling for the next six weeks, and coming back to the choir I’m in just in time for a concert. I can’t read music […]

Winner of Chorus America’s 2010 Education Outreach Award, Chanticleer demonstrates how to grow an education program that touches the lives of the next generation of singers by Kelsey Menehan When Chanticleer started its Singing in the Schools program in 1986 it was a modest affair. The organization was just eight years old, and though it […]

For this article, we asked choruses to tell us about a time when they felt an urgency to stage a concert centered on the themes of peace and reconciliation. Some choruses said they were prompted by specific historical events, others by violence in their own backyards, still others by the conditions of poverty and oppression […]

On Nov. 5, and 6, Niagara choral group Chorus Niagara, will kick off their 48th performance season by presenting a unique twist on the silent film. They will be screening the 1923 silent film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, and will be performing a live choral “soundtrack” to accompany […]

I’m looking for an unaccompanied arrangement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3, first movement. I know there’s a Swingle Singer’s recording, but I can’t seem to find if the arrangement is for sale. Has anyone else done it? I’d like for it to be as close to the original as possible. Thanks in advance! Tim P

I have been directing church choirs for 53 years, and still going strong. BUT, I now direct a choir that has an attitude that I’ve never encountered before. I have been here 3 years. I cannot seem to get the choir to accept the idea that they are not singing on Sunday mornings for the […]

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 18, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Salesian Father Massimo Palombella has been appointed the director of the Sistine Chapel Choir. The Vatican announced the change on Saturday. Father Palombella succeeds Monsignor Giuseppe Liberto, who held the post since 1997. The Sistine Chapel Choir — considered the oldest in the world — is overseen by the […]