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Hi all –   Does anyone have any quick music theory insights on chord structure / voicing for “Baptist Style” Mass choir arranging? My church is quite diverse and this request came in to me. I do all the arrangements we have for special songs outside of the hymnal. My strength is tertian SATB – This is […]

My SSA choir will be performing A Ceremony of Carols as a massed choir with other SSA choirs so we are all learning that score.  A week later, for our organization’s performance that includes SATB choirs, it has been suggested that we all- SSA and SATB choirs- perform A Ceremony of Carols too.  After all, it’s a […]

If you have a policy regarding lending music to other churches, I would like to reveiw these.   Barry Lindley

 Hi everyone,   Does anyone know if there is an arrangement of Antiphon (the last movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs) for organ, brass quartet and timpani? I’m doing it for Easter.   Thank you, Karen Schuessler

Hi…   Does anyone know large (10′ +) pieces for SATB chorus and string orchestra?   Thanks!!   David Friddle    

The New Jersey Choral Consortium is hosting a launch party on Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 2:00-4:00 PM at the Morris County Library, Hanover Avenue, Morristown, NJ. We hope simply to socialize, get to know each other, and offer suggestions which might help us better serve each other. Refreshments will be served. The consortium was […]

Hello All,   One of my high school choirs will be participating in festival this spring in which they are required to present at least 1 ‘grade 5’ selection. I would appreciate any suggestions you can provide. They are a mixed choir of 24, and they sing primarily a cappella selections.   Thank you!

Does anyone know where I can find this arrangement (for Soprano and Chorus)?  Thank you!

I’m hoping those of you with an excellent understanding of Latin use and syntax can help me better understand the last line of Orban’s Daemon Irrepit Callidus.  I’ve been working to make sure I have a solid word for word translation for myself and my students.  Can you help me translate the last line – […]

Richard Proulx, renowned composer and conductor, died Thursday, 18 February 2010 at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. Born in Saint Paul, MN on 3 April 1937, Proulx was Organist and Director of Music from 1980 – 1994 at the Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago. During his tenure at Holy Name, he […]