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I am 90% sure that I am going to do the Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio this year for my church choir presentation.  I cannot decide whether I should use the Latin or English text?  They are fully capable of the Latin text but I was wondering about using the English text.  Call me weird, but I […]

Hi Folks:   A former student of mine has relocated to Kenosha, WI and is seeking opportunities to sing. He is a good, although somewhat untrained tenor, very musical and has good acting skills.   Any suggestions?   Thanks,   Dana

A group of Benedictine nuns who live in complete seclusion in the South of France are set to become divas of pop after signing a deal with Universal Music, the leading record company behind Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse. After a worldwide search for the finest exponents of the art of the Gregorian chant, the […]

I realize that this subject was discussed a few weeks ago, but recently I have taken over the task of organizing our church choir music library.  It has been being kept on EXCEL, by someone who is not currently available, I have a print-out, but basically need to start from scratch.  I have looked into a few […]

Hello conductors & all…   I’m searching for programming ideas and rep to do with a small (max of 25 voices), non-audition college choir of non-music majors.  I’d like to stay away from strict classical repertoire at first, as the choir will be for many students their first choir experience; their introduction to the choral […]

Greetings,   I am hoping someone can point out where I may find a quality arrangement of Handel’s How Excellent Thy Name for SAB or SSAB choir and piano. I have seen a few on jwpepper but I want to make sure that I pick one that works well and sounds legit if you cacth […]

I plan to do David Hamilton’s “The Dragons are Singing Tonight” next season. I’d love to program something else for chorus and brass band – and that’s British style brass band, not wind band.  Any suggestions?   Brigid Coult Richmond Chorus, BC

At the very end of Ingmar Bergman’s film “The Virgin Spring,” there is a choir singing a hymn.  I have tried to identify it for a former student who has asked me about it, but the best I can come up with is that it is hymn no. 144 in “the Swedish hymnal,” according to […]

Hello fellow choral directors,   I am preparing to teach middle school choir again this fall and I wanted to start out teaching my students how to sing in unison right from day 1, before I even voice them – that’s for my beginning girls choir, beginning boys choir, and for my mixed choir which […]

For anyone interested in works for speaking chorus, sound files are now available for my Noah’s Ark  for speaking chorus and solo oboe:http://www.clareshore.com/LRoom.htm Note that the publisher, E.C. Schirmer, offers the oboe part on CD. – Clare Shore