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Local church, synagogue and school choirs will get a chance to perform holiday favorites and raise money Dec. 4 at Hiller’s Markets. Choirs will reserve a 30-minute time slot from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. to perform at a Hiller’s store in Plymouth, Northville, Ann Arbor, Commerce Township or Union Lake. Shoppers will be able to make […]

Friends, I am in desperate need of a recording/mp3  of Jubilate Deo by Michael Praetorius. Does anyone know where I may obtain a recording of this? Thanks!   Chris

  “I Will Lift Mine Eyes,” by award-winning young composer Jake Runestad, has just been published by Boosey & Hawkes as a part of their Choral Music Experience Conductor’s Choice series.  This a cappella setting of Psalm 121 captures the beauty and serenity of nature and the promise of guidance and support from a higher […]

Lassus, edited Jameson Marvin:  Two Short Motets (SSA unaccompanied). (1) Agimus tibi (We give you thanks); (2) In pace (In peace I will sleep).  Extensive biographical, historical, and performance notes. (BRM-23) $2.00.   Jeffrey Bishop:  ‘Tis Ivan, on a Visit (2 equal voices accompanied by keyboard or instruments).  Text:  words games – palindromes, tongue-twisters, anagrams, […]

We are using the advent theme “When Heaven Came Down” which was proposed in Reformed Worship periodical.  I am looking for repertoire suggestions which might fit this general theme.  Each week of the season will focus on one specific aspect of that general theme.  They are as follows: 1.         1stweek – When Heaven Walked the […]

Can anyone recommend a good resource for the Britten A Ceremony of Carols as it pertains to issues of pronunciation?  Obviously there is the pronunciation “guide” in the front, but given that virtually all recordings of the piece are at least subtly different from one another (the Shaw recording, as I recall, changes pronunciation style […]

Does anyone know what Eleanor Daley’s intended pronunciation was for her “Balulalow?”  Specifically, the words Jesu, spreit, Balulalow and gloir.  Compared with the text of the Balulalow from Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, it is clear that some of the Middle English words (I would imagine, wherever the rhythm made it possible) have been adapted… i.e., […]

“October 25, 2010 (Kelowna, BC) Canadian Music Centre associate composer Stephen Chatman was awarded the Western Canadian Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his work Earth Songs, recorded on CMC’s Centrediscs label. Earth Songs, appearing on the disc by the same  name, was recorded last year by the University of British Columbia […]

Hi folks, I’m in a bit of a pickle. I need to make line tapes for a few pieces I have to sing. I’ve to learn them by myself, I’m off travelling for the next six weeks, and coming back to the choir I’m in just in time for a concert. I can’t read music […]

Winner of Chorus America’s 2010 Education Outreach Award, Chanticleer demonstrates how to grow an education program that touches the lives of the next generation of singers by Kelsey Menehan When Chanticleer started its Singing in the Schools program in 1986 it was a modest affair. The organization was just eight years old, and though it […]