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I conduct a mens chorus and have plans to do a concert on Mother’s Day.  Any suggestions? Besides an Ave Maria? You help will be much appreciated.

Hello Colleagues,   Those of you who have been lucky enough to attend musical performances in Europe know that full concert programs are sometimes available only for an extra fee. In addition to holding complete program notes and bios, for example, these programs are also nice souvenirs.   As frequent program annotator for a professional […]

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.