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I’m seeking suggestions on ways to maximize the value of showing “The Audition” from the Met Opera to my high school chorus students. Thank you in advance!  

You may now listen to a recording of the world premiere performance of Stoke Fleming.  [Click on the title to be taken to the recording.]   Stoke Fleming is a small hamlet on the English Channel. The text for this work is a secular meditation on the rocks and the waves written by composer Greg […]

Dr Robert Harris at Northwestern University is attempting to assemble a database of graduates of our Masters and Doctoral programs in choral conduting.   If you are a graduate of this program, would you drop me an email message at ttropp(a)u.northwestern.edu, with a brief status update?  When you graduated, with which degree, and where you […]

I want to take my choir to the 6th International Robert Schumann Choir Competition & Festival 2010 in Zwickau, organized by INTERKULTUR.  If  anyone has an experience of working with INTERKULTUR before, attending their festivals or competitions, please, share your impression.  THANK YOU!!!

Dear,   Does anyone know ‘good music’ for SSA in the Gospel and Spiritual repertoire? Can be with piano, band, strings,… I would like to find a half concert program with this music.  Any help or tips are very welcome!     Rudy Van der Cruyssen Director Voices Belgium

I would like to know as to the directive as to when the chorus entry starts for Sanctus. My conductors score and vocal score clearly shows SOLI for the entire sanctus  and has the chorus entry at Benedictus at bar 114 for basses only AFTER the Praeludium. With SATB choir at bar 156 after more […]

Greetings Everyone; I’ve been receiving repetoire/anthems on approval from JWPepper and I have also gone to the ChorlaPublic Domain in search of interesting material.  Does anyone have any other suggestions for finding new repetoire?   John Rondeau,  Dir. of Music, The First Congregational Church of Dudley Dudley, Massachusetts

Whose arrangement is the “definitive” one of Orrin Hatch’s text “Heal Our Land?”  For SATB or solo.  Thanks!  Rob

Hi, Colleagues, I have a diverse population in my choruses and I try to include music from all the countries represented in my groups at some time during their study with me. (Czech, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese, British, French).  Most are first generation in the U.S.   Next year, I will have Persian and Turkish […]

I am looking for a collection of two part anthems edited by Hal Hopson and published by Lorenz ( I think).  My copy has disappeared and the collection is apparently out of print.  Composers included are Handel, Hopson (setting of Nettleton), and others.  Can any help me to identify the name of this collection so […]