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Hello all!   I don’t typically resort to this, but my wife is getting ready to have our first child and I need to get my hands on a German Diction exam for tomorrow.  If anyone has a copy of a German Diction test that I could have, I would be forever indebted to you.   Thanks!   Kyle

My composition In the Shadow of Your Wings written in 2009 was published in 2010 by ECS Publishing (Catalog No. 7394).  

I’m looking for the music for “Viva la musica” by Michael Praetorius.  I checked on CPDL and didn’t find it, and am wondering if it is available as a free download somewhere.    Can anyone help?   Thank you ~ Sally

Lucinda Thayer of Plover, conductor of the Wausau Lyric Choir, is scheduled to fly home today after her initial flight plans were canceled Sunday. Thayer, who is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was serving for the fourth time as the American judge in an international choir […]

 Do you have a copy of “Popular Voiceworks” (by Charles Beale & Steve Milloy, OUP)? If so, we would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.    If you teach elementary – high school choirs, this book is for you. Here’s a link to a description of the book with book and audio samples. 28 […]

 I am searching for an art song I learned many years ago, but now cannot find in a collection or separately.   Does anyone know an art song in English called “The Builder”?  If so, who is the composer?  Do you know where to find it?  

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth….. Put out my hand and touched the face of God.   High Flight , the evocative setting for choir and saxophone of John Magee’s famous poem will soon be en route to Scandinavia!   The Anderson University Chorale under director Richard Sowers and with Rebecca Chappell […]

Blue Heron announces the release of its new CD!Hugh Aston: Three Marian Antiphons · Robert Jones: Magnificat · John Mason: Quales sumus O miseri (Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, vol. 1). BHCD 1002   Blue Heron, directed by Scott Metcalfe, announces the release of the second CD on its own label. The disc is the […]

Colleagues,   I am investigating a possible choir tour to Rome, Naples, the Amalfi Coast and Pompeii with about 40 advanced high school singers in late February 2011. I would be interested in music from any of those cities. The music could be from any time period, including new music. A cappella or with individual […]

Can any forum member suggest ideas or resouces to make the case in support of music and the arts in a religious institutional setting where the management mindset appears to be to justify programming and spending decisions in terms of a corporate cost benefit analysis approach?  That is, where budgetary and performance evaluation decisions are strongly driven […]