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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

My instrumental colleague has approached me about including singing in his band rehearsals in order to further develop the aural skills of his students.  In our district, he is a 5-12 band director.  We met today about the best way to start incorporating solfege and singing in all of his band rehearsals including 5th grade […]

What songs are any of you using, that are planning music for a ceremony on National Day of Prayer?? Many around us do a combined event representing the county, and we will have a smaller service in church at night. We have access to musc by a Praise Band, organ, and piano. Thanks, in advance, […]

I’m interested in knowing how other choral directors deal with high school students in the only choir the school offers, who can’t match pitches.    Where do you “place” them in the choir? – Do you put them in the back row so their non-matching pitches aren’t heard?  (If so, doesn’t that throw off the […]

Colleagues,   I’m struggling with teaching my students how to pronounce final G’s and D’s and B’s in German when the word has been shortened for poetic reasons, like Habe becoming Hab (Hab’ ich), Tage becoming Tag, and so forth.  I have five Germans diction books by my side.  3 say to make them final […]

Dear colleagues,   I seem to be struggling with repertory choices more than usual.  Next year we will have a concert with larger-than-usual forces that will include on the second half the Sequence from the Berlioz requiem (dies to Lacrymosa).  I’m looking for a 20-30 minute wonderful work for the first half.  I’m econsidering Mendelssohn […]

Looking for short (10 – 15 minutes) work to program with an excellent brass quintet (union players) and possible timpani/percussion.   THANKS   Betty Devine