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I had decided to do the Fauré Requiem with my high school choir this year.  I had the numbers and the talent to be able to take on a major choral work, and thought the Fauré would be a good place to start.  We are opening our newly renovated auditorium this spring, so I worked […]

Dear Choral Friends,   I am opening a new web site (in about a week) about Latin American choral music. If you have a photo of your choir singing in a Latin American country, and would like to have it on my web site, please send it to me and tell me about it. Obviously, […]

  My volunteer church choir could sure use some group wisdom on this issue, as most of us, including the director and I as assistant director, are running out of ideas and patience.  The problem is twofold: difficult voice combined with difficult personality.  Sorry that this is looooong. . .   The subject is a […]

Does anyone have a translation for Suomalais-ugrilaisia maisemia: Vepsän poluilla   ( Finno-Ugric Landscapes:  On Vepsian Pathways).  I’m only looking for the English meaning of this one song in the cycle.  I found it on a Tapiola Children’s Choir recording (“Joy!”) and am interested to use it with my young women’s group.  The score is […]

On my new website, that features my blog (which has had 3 articles featured on Choralnet.org in the past 2 years), my video series (The American Choral Journey), and my upcoming Choral Compositions, it also has a DMA Choral Conducting Grad Program page and MM Choral Conducting program page (lists universities/ the professors/ and includes […]

I will soon be ending my second year as a middle school/high school choir director. At the end of my first year I had my students fill out an evaluation about me and my teaching. The feedback I got was useful but the form was for a general teacher, not a music teacher. I would […]

I have been working as the parish accompanist for several years, earning $70/2hour+  per service.  These have been on Wed. nights, Saturday and Sunday services with rehearsal prior. At same church was a Music Director who worked 20/hrs per week for $17-20,000. per year.   The church is now combining my position and that of […]

   I have done a choral setting of the poem “Song,” by Christina Rossetti.  It is for SATB voices, a cappella.  If you like it or wish to perform it, please feel free to contact me:   Brandon J. Spencer (313) 461-8421   Thanks, Brandon J. Spencer   file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner.SPENCER/My%20Documents/Song.pdf

I am a volunteer choir member who takes voice lessons and sings an occaisonal solo in church.  Is the cost of my lessons tax deductible as a voluntary contribution to the church?

A relative in Norway just sent me the breakdown, saying that it would probably be representative for all of Scandinavia (use Google Translate if necessary):   Talet på kor Kormedlemmer   I alt1 Blandakor Damekor Mannskor   1997 1 015 33 000 .. .. .. 1999  994 33 500 .. .. .. 2001 1 037 31 962 24 526 2 220 5 216 […]