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Wisconsin choir director returns home after being stranded by ash
Lucinda Thayer of Plover, conductor of the Wausau Lyric Choir, is scheduled to fly home today after her initial flight plans were canceled Sunday. Thayer, who is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was serving for the fourth time as the American judge in an international choir […]
Popular Voiceworks feedback
Do you have a copy of “Popular Voiceworks” (by Charles Beale & Steve Milloy, OUP)? If so, we would love to hear your feedback and suggestions. If you teach elementary – high school choirs, this book is for you. Here’s a link to a description of the book with book and audio samples. 28 […]
Art song “The Builder”?
I am searching for an art song I learned many years ago, but now cannot find in a collection or separately. Does anyone know an art song in English called “The Builder”? If so, who is the composer? Do you know where to find it?
High Flight in Scandinavia, and new recording
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth….. Put out my hand and touched the face of God. High Flight , the evocative setting for choir and saxophone of John Magee’s famous poem will soon be en route to Scandinavia! The Anderson University Chorale under director Richard Sowers and with Rebecca Chappell […]
BLUE HERON CD RELEASE
Blue Heron announces the release of its new CD!Hugh Aston: Three Marian Antiphons · Robert Jones: Magnificat · John Mason: Quales sumus O miseri (Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, vol. 1). BHCD 1002 Blue Heron, directed by Scott Metcalfe, announces the release of the second CD on its own label. The disc is the […]
Repertoire and people in Southern Italy
Colleagues, I am investigating a possible choir tour to Rome, Naples, the Amalfi Coast and Pompeii with about 40 advanced high school singers in late February 2011. I would be interested in music from any of those cities. The music could be from any time period, including new music. A cappella or with individual […]
Resources/Ideas to counter a cost benefit analysis mentality?
Can any forum member suggest ideas or resouces to make the case in support of music and the arts in a religious institutional setting where the management mindset appears to be to justify programming and spending decisions in terms of a corporate cost benefit analysis approach? That is, where budgetary and performance evaluation decisions are strongly driven […]
Songs From Far Away
Greetings List, I’m starting to prep for next year’s concerts and am looking for multicultural repertoire from around the world. Thank heavens for Standardized testing!I can finally catch up. Here is what I’ve come up with so far: Si Me Dan Pasteles-Puerto Rico Regle-Polish Lulajze Jezuniu -Polish Dodji Dodji-Bosnian Vem Kan Segla-Swedish Uskudar’a Gider iken […]
How do I help a singer who consistently sings sharp?
I am a K-12 vocal music teacher in a small rural school. I have a small choir with 14 girls and 1 boy. We generally sing SSA music with my one young man doubling the alto part down an octave. I am not allowed any control over who is placed in the choir, and even if […]
looking for repertoire ‘Tango et Amor’ for SSA
Hallo, I’m preparing a program with the titlle: ‘Tango et Amor’ with my women-choir ( 16 women, very good level). Libertango arr by Oscar Escalada is a very good score to work with in this program. But does anyone have other suggestions ( can be a capella, with band, strings,…) for music in this style: Latin, Tango, Swing, […]