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By JEROME P. CURRY HOLCOMB, KS — Rachel Massoth is focused. On Monday, the Holcomb High School choir director had gall bladder surgery at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City. And then on Wednesday, she was back in her classroom guiding her 21-voice choir through its tonal paces. Several people in the high school office […]

By Janelle Gelfand • jgelfand(a)enquirer.com • October 20, 2010 Cincinnati was chosen over 20 competing cities to be the first North American host city for the 2012 World Choir Games, the world’s largest amateur choir competition, because of its variety of venues, its longstanding choral tradition and, just as importantly, its welcoming atmosphere, said Günter […]

Some may say Smith is losing its identity as a female college when such groups emerge. This isn’t true. Being a woman is still a requirement for admission. Estrogen is in the very air. 

I’m told that James Vail did a transcription of the wind/brass parts for Brahms Requiem, allowing it to be performed with srings, timpani and organ (using the original string and timpani parts).   Anyone have any experience with using this transcription and could make recommendations for/against?   Thanks!   Alan Rothenberg Philadelphia, PA

I am currently in a wonderful position: I can apply for either a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Choral Conducting, OR I can apply for a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education with an emphasis in Choral Conducting.   However, I’m not sure which to apply for. Here is a little background info.:   […]

I have recently recruited about 15 boys for my church youth choir. They were all recruited from our music outreach program which helps provide private lessons to talented kids, so most of them can read music and are quite fast at learning new material. All of these boys are between the ages of 11 and […]

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah has named a guest conductor to lead its choral studies program after last week’s unexpected resignation of Brady Allred. The university had been using graduate students to fill in for Allred after he took a month’s personal leave and then resigned for “unexpected personal and family circumstances.” […]

Two years ago our church, a 1960s Spanish neo-gothic design (cruciform), installed TV monitors in the transepts to help people see what was going on in the center of the chancel (Baptisms, Holy Communion, etc.). Last week, due to the need to show a 9-minute video for the annual stewardship campaign, 4 additional TV monitors […]

I am a K-12 music teacher at a foreign school in South Korea where over 90% of the students are Korean. I teach general music classes to all K-8 grade students. In addition, I teach a middle school and high school orchestra and high school choir. In teaching my students I feel that it is […]

The universal language of music notes written on paper are easy for the Hemet West Valley chamber choir to understand. It’s the words that coincide with them — written in a language that almost none of them could begin to read or pronounce — that is the hard part. This year, in gearing up for […]