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I have always landed squarely on the side of not using too much popular music in my choral program.   Our annual pops concert was the exception where my high school kids got to sing in talent show style songs of their choosing.  It was a reward I gave the kids for working hard for me […]

A friend of mine (not a conductor) is interested in knowing about musical settings of poetry by Robert Frost.  There is Frostiana, of course, and Three Poems by Robert Frost by Carter; there are some settings by Ned Rorem, and Randy Stroope has a setting of “The Pasture.”  There are some 30 titles listed on the […]

While it isn’t exclusively choral, the online broadcast SOUND OF MAJESTY includes a great amount of fine choral music.  Programs are archived and may be accessed at http://www.soundofmajesty.org  

I would love to find an internet radio station or publisher that plays choral music all day long.  I would love to listen to choral music as I work at my computer.  Then, if I hear something I could use in our community choirs, I would see the title and publisher.  Anyone know of choral music […]

I am trying to find where to get a copy of this piece.  Apparently, it is just a series of rests that singers “emote” to perform the piece.  I don’t know who the composer is.  Does anyoone know this piece and where to locate it quickly?   Please email me at if you have […]

I am planning a concert celebrating winter.  We will be looking at Christmas and Hanukka, focusing on repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. I already know about the Vittoria “Omagnum Mysterium.”   We also want to look at madrigals.     Wishart Bell Vesper Chorale 

Has anyone ever performed (andhopefully recorded!) Arthur Foote’s The Skeleton in Armor?  I can’t find a recording anywhere on the web, and I’d love to hear the piece.  There seems to be a book, which I assume is the libretto, but no CD.  The score, by the way, is available at IMSLP.   Thanks!   David Janower

I took a job for next year teaching K-12 music at a rural, small school (actually the school I went to!). I will be responsible for elementary music, high school choir (was told it is open to grades 9-12), beginning band, and high school band.   I need help in building a solid choral program there. They have really never […]

The Southern Arizona Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Terrie Ashbaugh, MM,  is proud to share with our colleagues the celebration of our 25th anniversary season.    To commemorate this occasion, we have commissioned a new work by David Childs, with beautiful text by poet, philosopher, and theologist John O’Donahue (an excerpt from Beannacht).  This work will be premiered in […]

I am thinking of performing The Armed Man with my community choir and wanted to get any thoughts from those of you who have put this program together.  What orchestration did you use?  Did you use the video element to the performance or enhance the performance in any other way?  How did your singers respond […]