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Hello colleagues,   The professional choral ensemble in which I sing and on whose board I serve is considering offering a winter weekend choral festival, We are experienced festival hosts, having offered our 11th annual summer festival in 2009. Our summer festival hosts about 140 singers selected by application and recommendation.   Our summer singers tell […]

Greetings all!   I am the choir director of a small church in southeast Ohio.  We’ve been going through some changes and challenges at our church.  Our worship and music commission has received several comments coming back are to expand on the type of music we do during our worship.  We are an aging congregation […]

Hey all– I’m looking for one or two more pieces for our upcoming concert featuring music from around the world.  My beginner’s (HS) treble choir (50+) is doing a set of “Voice as Instrument” songs:  songs were the voices imitate local/indigenous instruments.  We have Mouth Music and Ej, za dworem , but I’m looking for […]

Schola Cantorum on Hudson (SCH) kicked off its 15th Anniversary Season with the global launch of Project Encore™, a searchable database of choral works that have been premiered, but have not yet garnered significant additional performances. The database provides detailed information about new works, links to composer and publisher websites, sound files, and sample pages […]

Brent F. Miller   Long-time ACDA leader Brent F. Miller passed away on January 4, 2010 after a short illness. He was a graduate of Rutgers University and Trenton State College, with a Bachelor degree in music education and a Master degree in choral conducting. While at Rutgers, he was a member of the Kirkpatrick […]

I would welcome suggestions for organ & brass selections for Easter that are not “too difficult” and am still looking for unusual Easter pieces for my choir   Blessings, John Rondeau, Dir. of Music The First Congregational Church of Dudley

Try the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir’s DVD. It is not a musical, but a DVD of fabulous performances, talking with the boys, and having the boys teach the melodies and dance movement to traditional African songs. It will add to your repertoire, and the kids will see an amazing group of boys who sing. You can […]

I’m looking for a few musicals that are good for middle school boys to watch – something with choreography that middle school boys would like.

Any experience or tips for working with a ‘family-choir’ in a church? I am thinking two part songs, canons and such, that we can teach by rote and add percussion to for rhythmic interest. “family-choir”: parents with children who are mostly under age 12. Other caregivers and grandparents are not excluded from the mix. N

Hello choral community! I am presently swamped with rehearsals from early morning to evening and cannot get to a library to check this out in collected works or other sources. Might you help me?   In measure 87 of the Mendelssohn “Laudate Pueri Dominum” (Op30 No2), I wonder if the Soprano 2 should (could?) have […]