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Colleauges,   There have been endless posts about pronouncing this piece, but I can’t find one dealing with the 8th note in the basses in their first full measure (or their dotted 8th-16th pickup) and whether those rhythms should be accommodated to the triplet.  Does anyone have information speceifcially on what Faure himself did, or […]

Click here to hear Clare Shore’s Tropical Blessing (a Blessing for St. Francis’ Day) for SAB Chorus and Handbells: http://www.clareshore.com/LRoom.htm The words are by the composer: Praise God, the Father, our Creator!/Bless all of us, He is our maker!/Bless paw and hoof, burrow and roost;/Bless equine, bovine, canine, feline, Osprey, egret, woodpecker, Little Blue;/Bless Spot […]

RedHouse Arts is pleased to add Larry Finke’s arrangement of the old English carol “Down in Yon Forest” to its Christmas offerings.  Please visit www.redhouseartspace.com/choral-music.html to see a sample score or e-mail .

AMERICAN FORK, Utah — The road from writing operas to directing children singing about a mysterious cat or a Halloween song about bones is apparently not too long.   M. Ryan Taylor, composer of the opera "Abinadi," is the new director of the American Fork Children's Choir.   He only has two rehearsals under his […]

Keith Scott Reas has been appointed as the new artistic director for the 2010-2011 season for Choral Arts Of Chattanooga. Choral Arts is a chorus of experienced, professionally minded singers whose mission is to offer the Chattanooga community the finest in classical and contemporary choral literature at the highest level of performance. The organization recently […]

Is the third section (alleluia) in 4 or cut time? The Concordia edition I have is in 4, but the scores on CPDL are marked in cut time. That seems to make more sense, but does anybody know for sure? Thanks, Karen Kenaston-French University of Texas Arlington

Southeastern Music presents several new titles from Terre Johnson:   O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing – SATB, Organ, Handbells, Congregation, Brass (4 horns, 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Tuba) Timpani. An elegant festival setting, with an original verse of text, recently commissioned and now available. Sing We Now of Christmas – SATB, Organ, Handbells, […]

Go here to listen to Clare Shore’s Three a cappella Carolshttp://www.clareshore.com/LRoom.htm Suitable  for small or large choruses, Clare Shore’s Three a cappella Carols utilize traditional English texts in new musical settings. Performed as a set, the three songs offer contrast in style and length, beginning with two brief carols – a jubilant Joy to the […]

Salem, Ohio — Melissa Fucci has been named choir director and music instructor at Kent State University Salem Campus.   Fucci comes to Kent State Salem from the Kent main campus where she is an instructor of musical theatre at the Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance. She is also the education coordinator […]

I work in a small school and I have a small, and rather young, high school choir. We have a lovely young lady in our group, Marie, who is an exchange student from France. I would like to do a piece for  our Christmas concert, and one for the spring, that is in her native […]