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Good morning colleagues!   I have been in search of a singable English translation to the verses (all five, preferably) of Parce Domine, and I am turning to my ChoralNet friends for assistance.   What I’m looking to accomplish here is to sing the Parce Domine refrain in Latin, and the verses in English.  Seems that […]

Hello there –   I am looking for a multi-movement work that is up tempo and fun a la Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass.  I love Dr. Ray’s mass setting.  I find it fun to sing, upbeat, beautiful, and meaningful however I conduct at a Unitarian Church and some of my choristers said they would be uncomfortable singing the text.  Can you recommend  something […]

  ChoralExpress – Choral Calendar of the Midwest Post Concerts / Find Concerts www.choralexpress.com   New Website for Midwest Choirs to post their concerts and for concert-goers to find concerts For more information, please check out the Website or contact Tom Hale  

The “lost recording” of Chanticleer performing Aloha Oe is now exclusively available for download from Chanticleer’s website after their recent live performance on MPR’s A Prairie Home Companion.  Visit www.chanticleer.org to download this song or any song or album from Chanticleer’s discography.

I’ve just taken on leadership of a women’s choir, and I’m trying to get organised for the whole year – hence I am already asking questions about Christmas!   Can anyone recommend a carol collection for women’s voices, other than Oxford’s Carols for Choirs 4?   I’d ideally like to find the SA (SSA etc) equivalent […]

I am working in a middle school as chorus teacher and need money for trips, music, etc. Any fund-raising ideas are welcome! Please!!! Jack Louden 

by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff   It took classical choral composer George Handel less than a month to write his masterpiece Messiah , but more than 250 years for a lesser work to see the light of day. Tim Sharp conducts members of the combined Davidson Chorale, Southern Chorale from Georgia Southern University, and the Reid Memorial […]

 Hi everyone,   I don’t know if this is the appropriate forum to post this in, but I am wondering what topics people are interested in learning about in vocal jazz…  I’m giving a session at a music educator conference, and want it to be relevant to the people who teach vocal jazz…  What areas would […]

Does anyone know where I can find recordings of Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 and 95 in English? Thanks  

 Hi!   We are doing a concert on Thanksgiving day and are looking for suggestions on sacred masterpieces from American composers for mixed choir, tenor solo and brass and percussion accompaniment.  Should be no more than eight minutes (< 8 min.) long.  We want it to be the closing piece for the first part of […]