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One of my spanish teachers wants to do a collaborative unit with my 7th or 8th grade treble or men’s choirs. She would like us to perform a piece by a Mexican born composer. Does anyone have any repertoire suggestions for a Mexican composer that has written music appropriate for middle school choirs?   Many […]

Has your church choir toured in Peru?  Can you give me suggestions for repertoire that is suitable and well-received by the Peruvians?  We have the Ramirez Misa Criolla ready to take.  Ideas for other pieces in Spanish that would be familiar to the audience?  Thanks for any help you can give. Dennis Coleman First Congregational […]

My College Chamber Singers are performing a concert of Madrigals this fall.  I’d like to find music for brass and choir (Motets?) to perform in the same concert.

I will be serving as music director for The PIrates of Penzance this fall.  I will have fairly limited space for the orchestra.  Does anyone have experience conducting this piece with a reduced orchestra?  If so, could you 1) recommend a particular reduced orchestration that has already been produced or 2) give some advice as […]

My administrator sent me an email the other day telling me, and all the other fine arts teachers in the building, that we would all have a section of Freshmen on a 4 1/2 weeks rotation all year. This, in theory, could be really cool and a great recruiting tool. But I am really not […]

Hawkins was born in Oakland and began singing in gospel choirs as a teenager, along with his brothers. In 1967, as a member of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he recorded “Oh Happy Day,” which would become one of the first gospel-leaning songs to cross over to the mainstream, winning a Grammy and being named one […]

When you first hear the remarkable singing in “Brick: An A Cappella Musical,” you scan the lineup of singers to find out where all those sounds are coming from. In place of a band, vocal arrangers Adam Hogston and Joe Mokrycki create instrumental sounds with voices: percussion, bass, melody line, rhythmic movement and harmonies — […]

The 2012 World Choir Games, to be held in Cincinnati, will have an estimated economic impact of $73.5 million, according to a University of Cincinnati report released Thursday. The impact includes direct spending of $36 million by the operators and organizers of the event, participants who will stay at hotels downtown and elsewhere, and by […]

Hello – my smallish (18-20 voices) chamber choir hopes to build a concert around the theme of Dance for April 2011. We already plan to use portions of Brahms’ Liebesliederwaltzes op 52. We have a student accompanist who’s a good reader and able to play organ, plus a second pianist who’s great. There are many […]

  WXXI NAMES PETER DUBOIS NEW HOST OF ITS NATIONAL RADIO PROGRAM WITH HEART AND VOICE   Rochester, New York (July 12, 2010) –Peter DuBois, Director of Music and Organist at Third Presbyterian Church, has been named host of With Heart and Voice, WXXI-FM’s national sacred choral and organ radio program. DuBois has served as […]