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Hey everyone,   Just curious – how do you learn your students’ names?  Does anyone have any activities that help with this that are fun?  I have problems remembering my 5th graders’ names – I only see them once every three days.    Thanks,   Mark

Dear friends,   Musica International database is now interactive for its 159,000 records describing choral music scores ! It has been a long time that I did not post something  on ChoralNet. Indeed, Musica (www.musicanet.org) was very busy developing new features for direct interactivity with its users, ie YOU!  Today we have opened the first […]

Hi all,   Thank you for the two suggestions for 5th grade – I wasn’t clear enough – sorry.  Here’s what I’m looking for:   -Unison song or something with a really easy countermelody -Medium to slow tempo -Secular Christmas or Wintery Song   I have the following right now for them:   Christmas is […]

I can’t read music. However, I have a good strong voice and an ear for music. I’ve sang southern pentecostal gospel music in church for most of my life. I’ve been leading a very small choir for years now, but they need to grow.  And, to do that…..I know I need to grow. So, does […]

Greetings!   Have any of you conducted Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Vaughn Williams for choir, strings, and organ?  If so, how do the instrumental parts differ from the version with winds and brass?  Does the version for strings and organ simply leave out the wind and brass parts or are the string parts altered? […]

MELROSE, MA — Memorial Hall in Melrose isn’t exactly the Stone Pony, and the Polymnia Choral Society, a 57-year-old volunteer chorus headquartered in Melrose, doesn’t usually engender fist pumping at its concerts. The group’s next performance on Dec. 3, for example, titled “A Victorian Christmas,” will feature excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” and other seasonal favorites, […]

LIMERICK, IRELAND — Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:01 “CHORAL music is going through a certain renaissance now. It has become a very popular past-time to be involved in,” declares one who knows. Liz Powell is chief executive officer of the Limerick based Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC), an organisation that carries the strapline “enchancing life […]

I am looking to borrow the instrumental parts for “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” arr. Richard Proulx.   I cannot find these parts.     Thanks   Dean Luethi Washington State University

To all my church-employed colleagues:   Does anyone have or know of an anthem appropriate for the day after Christmas this year? Since Christmas Eve is a Friday this year I want something fairly short and homo-rhythmic, for the most part. Thank you for your suggestions.     Craig

Many thanks to those who resopnded to my previous posting.  Unfortunately, many responses were for accompanied works.  I am particularly interested in pieces dealing with the life and ministry of the historical Jesus including events in his life (for example, the Baptism in the Jordan….I believe Tavener wrote a piece on it, but I am […]