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Hi Everyone!   I am a first year choir / elementary music teacher at a very small private school. I don’t have a lot of experience in choosing repertoire – and wanted to know what you would suggest – here are the specifications.   The chior – more like an ensemble – consists of 6 […]

Friends – We’re presenting the Fauré Requiem in worship on Nov. 7.  We own two sets of parts for the larger orchestration, but I’ve intended all along to use the smaller “original chamber orchestration”. I’m hoping to find a source from which the borrow the chamber parts, but in case I strike out, I have […]

For those of you who have experience with the orchestral version of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, as you may know, there is a four part cello divisi towards the end of the last movement.   In the rental parts, are there cues for the upper cello part(s) written in the viola part?  I would prefer to hire […]

I’ve written a new anthem I’d like to sell. This is the first time I’ve tried this route. My anthems are published by Augsburg Fortress, MorningStar, Concordia and others but I’d like to see if there is any interest in this method. Here’s  the text:   acceptance   Acceptance, acceptance, for all of God’s children. […]

Lighthouse Music Publications has recently released the following works: An Empty Sea (SSA, marimba, vibraphone) – J. Smallman Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (SSAA) – R. Bartlett Becalmed (SATB, piano – 4 hands) – J. Smallman Shadows on the Tide (SATB, piano – 4 hands) – J. Smallman Kuutamolla (SSATBB) – J. Smallman   Please visit Lighthouse Music […]

WATERBURY, MA — Arianne Abela, an award-winning Yale University-trained conductor, has been named director of the Chorister Academy at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Waterbury. She succeeds Maria Coffin, founder of the six-year-old youth music program, based at the church, located at 16 Church St.   Ms. Abela graduated in May from the Yale University School of […]

LONDON, UK — AN all-female choir from Amersham has taken the title of Good Housekeeping Choir of the Year 2010. Amersham A Cappella outshone three other finalists in the prestigious annual competition with renditions of ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’, ‘Joint is Jumpin’’ and ‘Somebody to Love’ at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London earlier this month. The […]

Every college student wants to be a part of a class that really does not seem like a class at all. Over the course of four years very few students are able to say that one of their classes feels like another home. However, for the students of the University of Kentucky Women’s Choir that […]

OK experts, I need your ideas……I think I’m doing this right but I need some encouragement, new ideas, or whatever else you can offer….I know you are all so busy and i truly appreciate your time.  Here’s the scenario: My choir meets weekly for only an hour and a half. We have a wide age […]

I have been trying to figure out the composer/arranger of two tracks on Robert Shaw’s Angels on High recording.  Does anyone know who composed/arranged track 1 O Come Emanuel and track 2 Alleluia on this CD?   Thank You,   David Burton Director of Choirs Caldwell High School