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Wales, UK. A CHOIR made up of people affected by cancer helped launch the biggest sporting event Wales has ever seen, by performing at the Millennium Stadium. Cancer charity Tenovus’ Sing for Life choir took to the stage for the Welcome to Wales concert, ahead of the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 last weekend. As the […]

Hello everyone. I recently moved out of an Episcopalian church where I had been Music Director for 4 years. I built a choir there basically from scratch, and we developed lots of church and concert repertoire, partly through traditional Anglican sources, and also a lot of multicultural things (esp. arrangements of Moses Hogan and Boniface […]

Today I begin a new project, visiting a training school for young adults with a wide range of disabilities, where I will be teaching choir once a week for about an hour.  I have never worked with this population before, and would love any suggestions veteran choir teachers may have for working with special needs […]

Mumbai, October 05, 2010 Shillong Chamber Choir, which won India’s Got Talent, will start a music school with their Rs 50 lakh prize money. Says Donna Marthomg, member of the choir, “Much before we won the title, we had decided to start a music school. It’s what we always wanted to do. We tried to […]

Scunthorpe, UK A SPECTACULAR Scunthorpe choral director has been hitting all the right notes at a national awards ceremony in London. Talented choir master Susan Hollingworth, of the Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, has scooped a prestigious award in recognition of her invaluable contribution to the community. Susan picked up Gramophone magazines’ Music In The Community […]

Washington National Cathedral’s 2010 Blessing of the Animals will officially welcome Carmina, the new Cathedral cat adopted by the Cathedral Choral Society from the Washington Humane Society. The Blessing of the Animals service will take place Sunday, Oct. 3 at 2:30 p.m. on the Cathedral’s west steps. All pets and their caretakers are invited to […]

Thomas Vozzella thinks of it as the worship arts version of building a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield. “Build it, and they will come,” Vozzella said, referring to the Fine and Performing Arts Academy that First Presbyterian Church in Rapid City recently launched on a shoestring budget as part of its children and youth […]

Does anyone have a recording of the following pieces by Giacomo Puccini “senior” published by Hinshaw (I’m looking for recordings preferably with choir accompanied by instrumental ensemble rather than piano alone):   Magnificat (Hinshaw HMB-189)   Magnificat in D (Hinshaw HMB-217)   Laudate Pueri (Hinshaw HMC1677)   Laetatus Sum (Hinshaw HMC1676)   Credo in G […]

I open my annual Christmas concert with an orchestral piece and after ten years am running out of new ideas. I’m looking for something Boston Popish along the lines of Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival.”  A crowd pleaser to set the mood.  FYI, the featured work will be Rutter’s “Magnificat” but I like to mix things […]

In brief: 1.5 years ago I started with a 40 voice choir that was gifted in an average church choir kind of way. We have had a major shift to 20 voices (16 woman, 4 men) through church amalgamation and the hurt and deep grief that follows this process – not to mention general delince […]