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Has anyone ever performed (andhopefully recorded!) Arthur Foote’s The Skeleton in Armor?  I can’t find a recording anywhere on the web, and I’d love to hear the piece.  There seems to be a book, which I assume is the libretto, but no CD.  The score, by the way, is available at IMSLP.   Thanks!   David Janower

I took a job for next year teaching K-12 music at a rural, small school (actually the school I went to!). I will be responsible for elementary music, high school choir (was told it is open to grades 9-12), beginning band, and high school band.   I need help in building a solid choral program there. They have really never […]

The Southern Arizona Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Terrie Ashbaugh, MM,  is proud to share with our colleagues the celebration of our 25th anniversary season.    To commemorate this occasion, we have commissioned a new work by David Childs, with beautiful text by poet, philosopher, and theologist John O’Donahue (an excerpt from Beannacht).  This work will be premiered in […]

I am thinking of performing The Armed Man with my community choir and wanted to get any thoughts from those of you who have put this program together.  What orchestration did you use?  Did you use the video element to the performance or enhance the performance in any other way?  How did your singers respond […]

I just have a quick question for all of you that have conducted Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.  When the meter changes to 3/2 followed by 2/2 etc. is it more appropriate to direct in larger 3 and 2 patterns, or subdivided?  Thank you!

NGU is calling for original, sacred choral (SATB – some divisi) scores to compete in this contest. A cappella or piano accompaniment., duration 3-5 minutes.  Deadline for submission is July 15, 2010, by postmark.  Submission fee is $25. for the first and $10. for the second.  Submitted works may have been premiered but never published.  Six […]

I am writing to question a discrepancy in the Schubert Mass in G.  I have two scores in front of me – the Kalmus edition and the Parker-Shaw edition.   My question is regarding an alto note in the credo.  In measure 16 in the PS edition, the altos sing a G.  In the Kalmus the […]

 Does anyone know where I can buy a CD to train my choir SAB part arrangements for musical theatre & light popular songs. i would like the CD to include someone singing all 3 parts so they can take them home to practice.

I’ve been asked to reprise a performance I conducted last year of Carmina Burana.  We had about 60 singers in the chorus, and used the chamber score with two pianos and percussion ensemble of 5 (should be 6, but we made do with 5 and replaced the gong with a snare drum!!!).  This is for […]

Does anyone know of a major work for mixed chorus with a concert band?  Even a concert band arrangement of an orchestral score.  Thanks!