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I’m hoping those of you with an excellent understanding of Latin use and syntax can help me better understand the last line of Orban’s Daemon Irrepit Callidus.  I’ve been working to make sure I have a solid word for word translation for myself and my students.  Can you help me translate the last line – […]

Richard Proulx, renowned composer and conductor, died Thursday, 18 February 2010 at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. Born in Saint Paul, MN on 3 April 1937, Proulx was Organist and Director of Music from 1980 – 1994 at the Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago. During his tenure at Holy Name, he […]

Hello,  I was looking for a “money” choral piece for my church singers( 12 people). I looked at the page in rep section and there was reply from Linda Surlak, who wrote a parody on Here we come a wassailing.  I really like it but there is just a n excerpt!! Any ideas similar to […]

  Dear friends,     Edition Music Contact now offers choral music by the british composer TIM KNIGHT  “A celtic Blessing of Light”.   In case you enjoy some latin moves please listen to the audio sample of  “O crux ave, spes unica” by Alberto Balzanelli.   These new publications and many others you can […]

I live in Australia, and may be able to apply for a scholarship to study overseas in 2011, so I’m looking for a 3-4 month course, in Europe or US.   I am very experienced in leading community and school choirs, including African-American Gospel, African, and Pop styles, but looking to ‘up-skill’ as it were. […]

 One of America’s foremost composers of vocal and choral music recently joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University. Z. Randall Stroope, who conducts the OSU Concert Chorale and Chamber Choir, has composed more than 90 works for voice and chorus in addition to works for various vocal forces featuring brass, organ and/or percussion.

I am looking for the version of John Lennon’s Imagine as sung with deaf choir on Glee.  This is a choral arrangement with instrumental accompaniment.  If anyone knows whether this arrangement is available in print I would appreciate it.   Thank you.

Hi, I am looking for large A CAPPELLA sacred choral works of 20th and 21st century, about around 20min and longer. The voicing and the language doesn’t matter. Body percussion/stomping parts are acceptable. So far, I got Martin’s “Mass for double chorus”, Rachmaninof’s “Vesper” and “Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom”, Schnittke’s “Choral Concerto.” All those […]

Hello colleagues:  I’ve been rehearsing Timor et Tremor with my church choir (St. Dominic’s, San Francisco) and found some dubious marks in our new Salabert scores.  ie M15, weird extra 16th and 32nd notes  and doubtful harmony on the last page, first measure (2nd sop sharp or natural?).  Is there a list of errata for […]

You are invited to sign up for the free Co-op Press Monthly Newsletter, featuring the compositions and arrangements of Sy Brandon. When you sign up, you can select a free composition or arrangement to be emailed to you as a pdf file. The Monthly Newsletter highlights a composition and/or arrangement each month and keeps you […]