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Hello my friends!   Groupanizer SING is a new tool for running your chorus, hosted online.  You will get better results with less effort.   Collaboration features include: Dashboard shows each member what they need to see at a glance Member tracking including picture, contact info, birth date Repertoire tracking, learning track downloads, and how […]

Any suggestions for a selection suitable for a 40 voice auditioned choir and not longer than 6 minutes would be greatly appreciated.  I would like to showcase the exceptional concertmaster that has been hired for an upcoming concert.  Cheryl

No, this isn’t a question as to whether you can sing it or not. Rather, I am interested in knowing if any other listers have created an ensemble within a public school setting that performs sacred repertoire exclusively.   In 2008, we started an extra-curricular group called Angelus that performs nothing but sacred repertoire (aside […]

I am researching for a program based on the idea of Many Shades of Joy, thinking of how Joy comes in so many forms: peace, elation, joy after sorrow (yes, I see that post!  Not a lot of responses, though), joys of love and joys of healing, etc. etc…   What comes to mind?   […]

Just Discovered: Two Pieces for Male Choir by the Young Brahms The musicologist Helmut Lauterwasser, staff member of the „Répertoire International des Sources Musicales“ (RISM) in the work group located at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, recently discovered two choral pieces for men’s voices by the young Johannes Brahms: „Des Postillons Morgenlied“ (text by Wilhelm Müller) and „Goldne Brücken“ […]

Good day colleagues!   I’m pleased to announce the competion of a new SATB work.  In Paradisum was composed in memory of a deceased friend, and I’m pleased to offer it to the choral community.  It is scored for SATB choir and Organ, and is accessible to a variety of high school, university, church and […]

 Does anyone have a copy of the Walter Collins edition of Handel’s Draw the tear from hopeless love from Solomon? I was told that Collins once published an edition that included the orchestra parts. As far as I know, this edition is out-of-print.   

Dear friends,    I’m looking for some songs that has connection in nature or earth for SATB community choir . If possible from baroque-romantic era. I found some already but i think asking some advice will be more helpful. Most of all, it’s to find a fast classical song the grand finale that has connection in […]

Dr. Clayton Parr, Director of Choral Activities at DePaul University’s School of Music, has been announced as the recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Award at the 2010 National Seminar of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Inc. at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  The Bartholomew Award, established in memory of the legendary conductor of the Yale Glee Club […]

One of the other discussions got me thinking about standard repetoire.   What are the standard pieces, that every student going through a High School choral program for 4 years, should have sung at least once?   I realize this may be somewhat subjective, but just as every HS student will have read Tom Sawyer, Beowolf, etc. and […]