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Chor Leoni’s MYVoice program aims to introduce teenage boys to the world of choral singing By Julie MacLellan, The Record October 13, 2010 VANCOUVER, BC — Whatever you do, just don’t tell Kevin Zakresky that you can’t carry a tune in a bucket – or any other combination of words that might imply you can’t […]

By MELISSAE FELLET • mfellet(a)thecalifornian.com • October 12, 2010 Last year, Salinas’s Apostolic Community Life Center choir “A.C.L.C” was named best small choir in Northern California. This year, it went even further. In the Verizon Wireless “How Sweet the Sound” regional contest held last Saturday in Oakland, Salinas again won the top small-choir spot. The […]

Colleagues,   We haven’t even had our first subscription concert this year and already I’m supposed to be formulating and bugetting for next!   I think I’d like to do Golijov’s “Oceana,” scored for Brazilian singer, 3 flutes, perc (talking drums;dumbek/rain stick;shekere/maracas) 2 guitars –harp–strings, double chorus.  It’s only half a program.   Any ideas […]

Hello all,   I am looking for modern a cappella settings of stories from the Gospels.  I know of Part’s “The Woman with the Alabaster Box” and “Tribute to Caesar” as well as Kodaly’s “Jesus and the Traders.”  Can anyone suggest similar sorts of pieces which may have to do with one of the miracles […]

Dear Choralist Friends,   If you want more responses to your posts, please be more specific in your “titles.”  Using “looking to borrow” or a like title is not helpful, as it does not give any more information than the heading of the subject area. Listing the title and/or composer of the piece is much […]

As author of the February 2010 Choral Journal article, “The Speechless Rehearsal,” I received requests to see it in action because no video could be found of it being done. I thought it worth putting myself on the line, so I recorded a rehearsal last week with the Central Michigan University Women’s Chorus, and edited […]

I’m looking for an SATB piece, in Italian, that is about food, wine, and/or pleasure.  Any ideas out there?

It was good to read this morning about the new searchable online index of the Choral Journal.  This tool will become an invaluable aid to many members, but I am thinking in particular of those teachers and students involved in university courses and seminars in choral literature who will benefit greatly from having access to […]

Oregon, Ohio – The Teutonia Maennerchor andTeutonia Damenchor, German-American choruses have elected Eric D. Graber to the position of Musical Director.   Mr. Graber, a resident of Toledo’s Old West End, serves as an Adjunct Music Faculty member at Adrian College and Owens Community College.  He also has a private voice studio: Singcerely Studios.  Mr. […]

Well, just a couple weeks ago I needed a life line.(still kind of do for that particular choir) Now, into my world walks a jazz grad from a local college and she has the chops, her own cd’s and sang in a SA jazz choir in college. I know nothing about jazz, I don’t speak […]