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Colleagues,   What do you make of the 32nd notes and the septuplet at the end of the 2nd mvmt. of Peaceable Kingdom? At any reasonable tempo, that measure is a blur. Why? How have you made sense of it? Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

My chorus is a co-curricular class of 50 8th grade boys and girls (14 boys and 36 girls). Many are into weekend activities such as soccer and cheer.   I recently found out that some of them are not attending a very important competition coming up that they have known about from day 1. A couple of […]

Hi Choir Friends,   I’m a first year director and next year we are starting a show choir! Our interest meeting is coming up in about a week. I’m hoping to take 10 girls and 10 guys. Auditions have been set. I have done my advertising, meet and greets, announcing and all that jazz but, I really […]

Hi all,   I am looking for a nice arrangement of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ for a choir of approx 100 voices (SATB or whatever is the closest!). I really like Robert Shaw’s arrangement sang by his famous chorale. Would anyone know where I could get this arrangement?   Many Thanks for you help in […]

Mo Li Hua, (Jasmine Flower) probably the most well-known of Chinese Folk Songs, has just been released in an arrangement by Wayland Rogers for SATB, flute and plucked string instrument. The dual-language text, in Mandarin and English, extols the beauty of the Jasmine Flower. The haunting melody, used intensively by Puccini in Turandot, in this version […]

My mind is blank.   I’m doing a grant application for some help with funding a series of concerts for a very special choral group of visually impaired singers.  We will be singing a cappella songs from around the world in harmony.   Some of the singers are also intellectually disabled but they produce a fantastic sound […]

Lighthouse Music Publications is pleased to announce the March 2010 release of the following choral scores:   Sweet Child (SSA, piano) – Alice Hietala My 2nd Favourite Blues (SB, piano) – Tony Dunn The Power Within (SAB, Descant, piano, percussion) – Tony Dunn A la Nanita Nana (SATB) – Jeff Smallman Dors, Dors, Dors (SATB) […]

Looking for choral/piano arrangement for NEVER ALONE by Anthony Evans on the original FAME movie soundtrack. I don’t understand why this never got published. Anybody do their own arrangement?

I began my musical life as an instrumentalist and was taught and prefered the numeric syllables for singing rhythms (one and two and three ee and uh four).   When I began teaching choir in high school I was recruiting 9 – 12 graders, like many of us do.  In order to quickly catch up students and teach rhythms […]

Hello, can anyone suggest an interesting arrangement of ani ma’amin for a small vocal group? The singers are young, so I am thinking of two or three parts, possibly soprano and tenor, or soprano, alto and tenor or baritone range for the boys.   Looking online I see various pieces entitled ani ma’amin but I can’t […]