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A Howell Public Schools music teacher will set the tempo for the Livingston County Chorale in Brighton, Michigan.   The chorale has selected Kelli Falls as its new director. She succeeds Reed Criddle, who directed the group for the past two seasons.   Falls teaches vocal music at Three Fires Middle School in Genoa Township. […]

Does anyone know of an edition (arrangement) of the Mozart Requiem in which the winds are transcribed to be covered by an organ? Thanks,   Jon Hurty Augustana College Rock Island, IL

Just experienced a moment of numinous, ineffable grace …. slowed down my day, sat, closed my eyes, and listened to a recording of Lauridsen’s Ubi Caritas, as rendered by the Don Brinegar Singers. Transported by unexpected gifts …   Dean M. Estabrook

The Covington Catholic High School Chamber Choir stepped into a recording studio in May under stressful circumstances. At a time when many were preparing for final exams and graduation, they began recording an album to memorialize their friend, Maria Schaffstein, the 17-year-old Notre Dame Academy student killed in a car crash in April. Within weeks, […]

Friends,   Previously at my middle and high school it has been a tradition that both choral programs perform separate Winter and Spring concerts each season. The high school always performs roughly an hour and twenty minutes on their night and the middle school performs roughly 45 minutes on their night. This school year the […]

This fall, Boston area choirs can compete for a chance to sing at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Wang Theatre, prior to a performance of America’s favorite holiday show, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world famous Radio City Rockettes, through the Community Choir Competition. Beginning September 10, videos of the participating choirs can […]

With their collaborative CD, the Western Michigan University Chorale and a Miami-based professional choir known as “Seraphic Fire” have hit one of the top spots on the iTunes Top 20 classical music chart. Their performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vespers of the Blessed Virgin,” was at No. 3 on the iTuneschart Tuesday and the album was recently featured on […]

There are five sentences I want to set to music.  These five sentences come from a book that is out of print.  The author of the book is dead, and the publisher has been out of business for many years. I have tried to track down the estate of the author but to no avail.  […]

My church (Lutheran, ELCA) will be installing a new head pastor after nearly two years without one.  Can anyone recommend an anthem for the installation service?   Thanks.   Jim Jefferis Bethlehem Lutheran Church Fairport, NY

Three music teachers, none with experience teaching high school choral music, have been hired to replace choral directors at Grant, Cleveland and Wilson high schools.   The teachers’ names haven’t been released. the three had more seniority in the district than the teachers they replaces, said district spokesman Matt Shelby.   Facing budget cuts, Portland […]