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Greece Athena High School’s Show Choir will be able to cruise the Greek Isles after all, after ash from volcanic eruptions in Iceland disrupted travel plans here and around the world in the past few days.   Thousands of flights were canceled as a vast cloud of grit drifted over Europe. The Greece Athena students […]

New Haven, Connecticut (WTNH) – It may not sound like much of a problem to be stuck in Milan until the skies clear, but parents of the Branford High Concert Choir are beginning to get a little anxious. It’s a trip of a lifetime that has turned into a wait of a lifetime on both […]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4W5N7Shbs   Any one know where can I buy sheet music of this song? I searched through some major sites but I couldn’t find it. Thx very much. (Maybe some italian friends can help me on this? A lot of search results are in italian and I can’t read them)

I had decided to do the Fauré Requiem with my high school choir this year.  I had the numbers and the talent to be able to take on a major choral work, and thought the Fauré would be a good place to start.  We are opening our newly renovated auditorium this spring, so I worked […]

Dear Choral Friends,   I am opening a new web site (in about a week) about Latin American choral music. If you have a photo of your choir singing in a Latin American country, and would like to have it on my web site, please send it to me and tell me about it. Obviously, […]

  My volunteer church choir could sure use some group wisdom on this issue, as most of us, including the director and I as assistant director, are running out of ideas and patience.  The problem is twofold: difficult voice combined with difficult personality.  Sorry that this is looooong. . .   The subject is a […]

Does anyone have a translation for Suomalais-ugrilaisia maisemia: Vepsän poluilla   ( Finno-Ugric Landscapes:  On Vepsian Pathways).  I’m only looking for the English meaning of this one song in the cycle.  I found it on a Tapiola Children’s Choir recording (“Joy!”) and am interested to use it with my young women’s group.  The score is […]

On my new website, that features my blog (which has had 3 articles featured on Choralnet.org in the past 2 years), my video series (The American Choral Journey), and my upcoming Choral Compositions, it also has a DMA Choral Conducting Grad Program page and MM Choral Conducting program page (lists universities/ the professors/ and includes […]

I will soon be ending my second year as a middle school/high school choir director. At the end of my first year I had my students fill out an evaluation about me and my teaching. The feedback I got was useful but the form was for a general teacher, not a music teacher. I would […]

I have been working as the parish accompanist for several years, earning $70/2hour+  per service.  These have been on Wed. nights, Saturday and Sunday services with rehearsal prior. At same church was a Music Director who worked 20/hrs per week for $17-20,000. per year.   The church is now combining my position and that of […]