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WINTHROP, Wash. A man killed in a collision on Highway 20 near Winthrop has been identified as Seattle musical director and conductor George Shangrow. The Wenatchee World reports he was on his way Saturday to deliver a lecture at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival when his car collided with a car driven by a 16-year-old. […]

Teaching CDs for Community Choir Leaders: Multi-Part Songs from Around the World, Volume 1 Created by: Betsy Sansby, co-author of 8 instructional books on African hand drumming and rhythm   Betsy Sansby, who leads the One World Community Choir of Minnetonka, MN, has just produced the first in a set of  teaching discs for community […]

Greetings List, I’m in search of music based on poetry about spring.  I’ve already programmed a couple of Mechem’s “Five Centuries of Spring” and Hawley’s “Io Son la Primavera” but am looking for pieces that will help fill out my program. I have five choirs to program for with the following voicings: SAB, SA, SSA/SSAA, […]

 Hi,  My name is Laurin Daniels and I am a senior Music Education major at Appalachian State University.  I am currently involved in a research project with a faculty member seeking answers to how to teach the upcoming students in 2010, 2015, 2020 and beyond.  We are researching generational gaps, new technologies, changing learning styles […]

I am looking for the Osiander harmonization of the German Christmas hymn “Christum wir sollen loben schon”.  Does anyone know where to find this?  Is it a standard in German hymnals?   Elroy Friesen University of Manitoba Choirs

What Vocal-technical reasons are there for bad intonation and recommend remedies for each problem with reference to the tuning ot the scale.

I am trying to fill out my treble choir Christmas Concert program with music by California composers.  Our most major work so far is Seven Joys of Christmas by Kirke Mechem and the program will be limited to sacred music.  This concert will be performed several times this December in Southern California before the choir […]

  I am a student conductor and I am planning auditions for a small ensemble. I want to test the ability to hear and sing harmony. Are there any useful exercises to test this during an audition?    

The Scripture message for Sept. 12 is The Prodigal Son. Any repertoire suggestions for solo or SATB? Thank you. Susan Raccoli

An important article has been published, announcing the discovery of the famousStabat Mater used as a sequence in the Gradual produced by a convent of Dominican nuns in Bologna in the later thirteenth century. This is by far the earliest known example of this hymn used as a sequence rather than as a devotional hymn.