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In a tightly contested race among some of the most well-known community choruses in the country, where the top three finishers were separated by mere percentage points and the top five by just inches, The American Prize is pleased to announce that Choral Arts, Robert Bode, conductor, of Seattle, WA, is the 2010 winner of […]

Dear Listers,   Sorry about the long post but this is a more complex request and to understand what it is really about I have been a little extended!. For my Melbourne (Australia) based choir, I am preparing a programme which will accompany an exhibition of new art works – which are part of the […]

Listers, After 40+ years of Christmas Concerts I am searching for something new and different for our concert this year.  Specifically I am looking for Christmas music with bagpipe accompaniment or that uses bagpipe and keyboard.  I have found a couple of selections, “A Bagpipe Carol”, etc.  Does anyone  have any repertoire they have used […]

I am searching for a selection of songs appropriate for a group of 16 students, ages 10-15. The group consists of regular students and students who are both physically and cognitively challenged. The group will meet for 1 hr per week for 8 weeks. They have never sung together previously, and there is wide range […]

The American Prize is pleased to announce that the WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE CAMERATA SINGERS, of Washington, PA, Susan Medley, conductor, is the 2010 winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance (college/university division.) Congratulations.   The Re-Choired Element Chamber Choir of Albany, OR, placed second.   The NW Oklahoma University Chorale, of Alva, OK […]

Just wondering.  Until my current position, I always used a vinyl music folder for my children’s choirs (grades 3-8).  In my current position, I tried using 3-ring binders and was amazed at how badly mutilated the octavos and handouts were when folders were cleaned out at year’s end.  Not to mention the binders being destroyed […]

Hello all!  I have read this forum for 2 years now, and have learned a great many vicarious lessons, but this is my first post.  Here goes…   I am interested in what you have to say about moving a good high school chorus toward an excellent high school chorus.  Many of you have probably been […]

Fellow colleagues,   I am submitting a request to perform at my state’s music convention. In the event that I am chosen, I would like any and all suggestions for repertoire that would make a good 30 min program.  My group is SAB, and they normally sing grade III music at festival (our state’s ratings […]

Does anyone have a transciption of “Kingdom in the Sky” originally recorded by Da Vinci’s Notebook?  Some of the guys in our Young Men’s Chorus would like to put this song together for the talent show during choir camp.   Thanks, Patrick Rose YPCErie

The Crossing, Donald Nally conductor, announces the release of its second videocast in The Crossing Chronicles; a series of short video docs giving insight into the new works being premiered during the Month of Moderns 2010 and The Levine Project: three new works inspired by Pulitzer Prize laureate Philip Levine. In this volume, David Lang discusses his journey […]