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  Dear List, I’m co-presenting a session at the California ACDA ECCO Summer Conference at the end of July and would like to ask newer teachers what types of things they wish they’d have known when starting out. This session is done yearly and is always well organized and thorough, but I thought I might try […]

Hi Everyone- If your choir is also involved in the school musical, I’m looking for some feedback.   Our choir will be learning all of the chorus parts to next spring’s school musical (“Once on This Island”) and I am looking for feedback from those of you who also do this.  We plan to learn […]

On Friday, May 21, the Senior Choir from St. Joseph Parish of Avon Lake, Ohio, was honored to perform with the other five finalists of WCLV’s JUBILATION Festival 2010.   Named a runner-up in the final round, the Choir donated their $500 prize money to the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church of the United Church of Christ, whose […]

Dear Colleagues, I am looking for an interesting work to be performed by an SATB high school choir on Halloween weekend without referencing that holiday directly. I would like to find something that has some special contemporary vocal effects and that is atmospheric but that is relatively easy to put together. Something like Whitacre’s “Cloudburst” or […]

Luther College announces the appointment of Allen R. Hightower, D.M.A, as the college’s director of choral activities, conductor of Nordic Choir and professor of music. Hightower will begin his duties at Luther in August. Hightower currently serves as professor of music and director of choral studies at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where […]

Has anyone done the Gounod Mass in C?  Did your choir like it?  Did you audience respond to it?  Trying to decide if I should use this piece soon. Thanks!

I am looking for (settings and recordings) choral music related to “Neighbours/Good neighbours” theme. Any ideas are welcome.   Yeshua Aroyo Choir conductor Istanbul – Turkey

At the college or advanced community chorus level, how would you proceed with hiring a new accompanist? More specifically, how would you interview/audition them?   We all know what represents a superior accompanist, and life certainly becomes easier when you have trusted recommendations, have heard them and/or worked with them before. However–assuming that you are […]

I’ve mentored a couple student teachers in the past and will be mentoring another in the fall.  I’d like to make it explicitly clear to new student teachers what is expected of them.  Rather than re-invent the wheel, I hoping some of you would be willing to share what you have.  FYI, I teach students […]

I have recently completed a new setting of the ‘Ave Maria’ for Three voices (MS:T:B). It’s available free of charge to Choralnet members. Contact me at for a free copy.   Stuart McIntosh