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I have searched, in vain, for a translation to Jannequin’s “La Guerre.”  When I try to follow the translation link on musica it does not go anywhere.  Can anybody help?   Thank you, Steve Dresen Bonnneville HS Choirs

I am considering establishing a “Greek Sing” at my university.  We have a large but inexperienced Greek system on campus.  Our Men’s and Women’s Choruses are considering sponsoring the Greek Sing in order to gain campus visibility for the choruses and choral music in general.     I participated in such events as an undergraduate, […]

FARMINGTON, MN — An artist in residence program starting at Farmington High School this week will help the concert choir get more in tune with one another, so to speak. On Tuesday, the men’s vocal chamber ensemble Cantus began its artist in residence program at FHS by giving a free a cappella concert for the […]

KEARNEY, NE — A friendship forged in Texas while producing music with a choir and orchestra resulted in Ron-Dirk Entleutner coming to central Nebraska from Germany.   He spent Wednesday and Thursday working with musical groups at the university, high school and community levels.   Maury Schulte, a singer and tour consultant, was part of […]

I have a chorister who has told me REPEATEDLY that she hates when there are solos in our church choir music, even for special events like cantatas or concerts.  She says that isn’t really choral music.  I have asked her (not sarcastically) what it is, then, but she said she didn’t know, it just wasn’t […]

By Celia R. Baker It’s difficult to say which choir in Salt Lake City is best — they are numerous, and each has a unique personality and mission. It is easy to say which choral group is the most prolific. Since its inception six years ago, the Salt Lake Choral Artists (SLCA) community choir has […]

  Dear friends of choral music,   interesting in composer´s feelings while writing new choral works?   Our Artistic Director Prof. Aurelio Porfiri talks to:   Nelson Kwei (Singapore) Oscar Escalada (Argentina) John Helgen (USA)     Please listen to 3 interviews of our choral advisors which we have uploaded on our publishers´ channel on […]

Our choir is looking to purchase uniforms for the first time and all of the girls have agreed on one dress from Southeastern Apparel, the florrid dress, but we have heard from a few people that the quality is not the greatest and these are supposed to last us about 3 or 4 years, I […]

An unperformed choral work composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams more than 100 years ago will be premiered next year.   The 45-minute piece, called A Cambridge Mass, was discovered during an exhibition at the Cambridge University Library.   Conductor Alan Tongue, who found the piece, said: “I knew immediately that here was a significant work.” […]

  Joan Sutherland, the Australian soprano, died at her home in Switzerland, near Montreux at the age of 83. She was one of the most acclaimed sopranos of the 20th century. Marilyn Horne, a close friend of Ms. Sutherland confirmed her death.   After her Italian debut in Venice, in 1960, Ms. Sutherland was called […]