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I recently completing my first year as a choir director. I’ve been thinking back on my year, and thinking about the mistakes I made, what I learned from them, and what I will do better in the future. Luckily, I’ll be teaching at a new school in the fall, so I can really start fresh.   Anyways, I thought […]

Our choral group is looking at online advance ticket sales for our independant choral concerts this year.  I was wondering what people’s experiences were with online ticket sales.   Patrick Rose President Erie Philharmonic Chorus

  I am from Manchester United Methodist and am a member of the Chancel Choir in Manchester Missouri. Let me introduce myself. We are a choir of about 160 to 165 singers, and in recent years have become a national choir, singing at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and have been on the big stage […]

Forgive me if this is a double post.  After I posted it, I looked back and didn’t see my question anywhere.   I am a new composer, and am currently assigned to write a choral piece for SSA that could also be sung as SAA.   I need to know the average ranges of voices of: […]

Wayland Rogers is pleased to announce the publication of THE GOLDEN RULE, a setting of texts from 8 of the World Religions on the theme of compassion. Written in an Afro-Cuban style, it is scored for SSA (the A part may be sung by tenors or cambiata voices) piano, bass and salza percussion. Published by WR Editions.

Need ideas for a sacred work scheduled for the Sunday before Thanksgiving (so no requiems).  Aging choir of approximately 60 voices, some good soloists but none professional.  Would like to involve a few instruments, with or without organ and ideal length is 25-30 minutes.  They recently did the Schubert Mass in G, the Vivaldi Gloria, […]

Hello Fellow ChoralNet-ters,   I am preparing my fall music for distribution to my singers over the summer.  We will be doing a concert based on various composers settings of the Psalms. I always try to find recordings of almost everything to help them along, especially the pieces that would not be familar.  I try […]

The American Prize is pleased to announce that ROOMFUL OF TEETH,  of Williamstown, MA, Brad Wells, founder and director, is the 2010 winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance (professional division). Congratulations. VOX: The Rob Seible Singers, of Houston, Texas, placed second. In making their decision, the judging panel commented that ROOMFUL OF TEETH […]

I am looking to move away from folders in rehearsal to zippered pouches.  The folders I have been using have significantly decreased in quality and increased in price, and the pouch offers more durability for less than half the cost.   Unfortunately I have only found one source for zippered pouches, at the Container Store […]

The Voices of Baha staged their first performance in Russia in 1993 under the guidance of Tom Price, its conductor. Over the past 17 years, the international choir has performed in 35 countries, this being its first performance in India.     “This is the first time that we have half the songs in Hindi […]