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Have a look at MISSA LUMEN for choir a cappella or with strings and organ www.youtube.com/user/MrCantemus#p/u/23/uTOp1EdzDaw   Lorenz www.maierhofer.cc

Hi, I am looking to do a mass work combining my two different schools’ advanced choirs next year.  They’ve done the Rutter Requiem (which they adored) and the Vivaldi Gloria (which they were lukewarm about).  Does anybody have any suggestions for contemporary mass works that would be enjoyable and accessible for high school singers?   Thanks! […]

PENSACOLA, Fla. — The McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church choir is on a tour from Oklahoma, and rather than cancel their plans to the Gulf Coast, they came anyway, looking for ways to help with the oil disaster.

Friends, I have started the planning process of selecting music for the 2010 Christmas season concerts for my 75 voice professional choral ensemble. The theme that keeps coming to mind is ‘light’, pretty broad yes, but it is what I have this far. Here is what I need from you kind folks: 1) Can you […]

 I have been asked to do a Brahms requiem choral workshop for 10 days in Asia with university music students. Which rehearsal tapes/cds would you recommend?  Any suggestions of rehearsal techniques?  

All– My HS program has two beginning/open groups, Men’s and Women’s choirs.  Our advanced auditioned groups buy their own uniforms, with the expectation that as multi-year musicians, it is an investment in our performance and an expectation at this level.  For our beginning groups, though, we have a high number of one-year students, as well as […]

Hi everyone,   I want to be sure my small college is obeying the laws. I am concerned about: choral/band/orchestral music for rehearsal and performance our performance venues used for both internal and external performances our recording studio   Where can I get a basic primer that will tell me what I need to do […]

Dear friends, I am honored to conduct an ensemble of incredibly hard-working middle school girls.  Last year we traveled to Ohio University, where Peter Jarjisian and his Singing Men treated the ladies to a weekend of music, laughter, and amazingly generous hospitality (the girls still talk about the trip, Peter, as do I 🙂   They […]

The Iowa Choral Directors Association cordially invite all to our Summer Symposium July 26-29 at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa. Featured clinicians include ERIC WHITACRE, EDITH COPLEY, RENE CLA– USEN, TOM CARTER, HISAE HASEGAWA and The Little Singers of Tokyo, KEN FULTON, JERRY ESTES, LY TARTELL, CRAIG ARNOLD, BRAD BARRETT and Chorale […]

I recently took over directing a group of men at my church.  This group was formerly known as the Saengerbund, and still participates in larger group singing with choruses from a few other area churches.  In the time I’ve been at the church not directing this group, I’ve heard them go from being a decent-sounding […]