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I am programming a concert centered on songs from the years during which America was involved in wars. I have been successful in finding songs from the Civil War and WWII but would welcome any other suggestions from the Revolutionary War, WWI, Vietnam (or appropriate protest songs) and anything recent (Desert Storm and post 9/11 America). […]

Please help!    The community college where I teach has long relied on a small handful of volunteers to supplement the membership in our ensembles. These volunteers are non-music department faculty, alumni, and current students who have taken the ensemble so many times that their financial aid will no longer cover it. The college has […]

I’m looking for a simplified version — just thru the first “sing cuccu” maybe, to be sung as a round by  an amateur group that doesn’t read music very well.  Alan McPherron, Portland OR

Composer, conductor, teacher, and church musician are all titles familiar to John Leavitt. To the students of MidAmerica Nazarene University, he is the new choir director. Just days before the end of the fall semester, Professor Juan Hernandez stepped down as the Director of Choral Activities to take the position of Assistant Dean of Music […]

I am looking for Renaissance pieces suitable for Middle or High School choirs. Any suggestions??? Thanks!!

 Hi…   I’m looking for a concert length work, or two large works, prefer English, with some kind of ensemble. Full orchestra would be hard for us. Any suggestions? This is a chorus attached to a church, but secular pieces are definitely good.    Thanks

Hi: I am working on my dissertation at the University of Maryland and have trying to get in contact of Jorge Cordoba, the Mexican composer. Does anyone knows could I contact him? I am interested in his choral compositions. Thanks.

 Hello fellow choir nerds!!!!   My friend and I are doing a session at our local MENC and ACDA conventions and we are looking for websites that have any free sight-reading material. We have the big ones like CPDL and a resource from this website and jsbchorales.net. we are also looking for something for smaller […]

How important/necessary is it to have an encore prepared for a choral concert?  We have a tradition of closing our Christmas concert with a piece about peace, which is usually fairly quiet and contemplative.  I have difficulty finding a suitable encore, and sometimes wonder if it’s really necessary.  Is it perhaps better to send the […]

 Having been inspired by someone’s question and many answers on the topic of “Singing the Annual Music Report”, I decided to try it myself.  Anglican Chant was the vehicle, as many of you suggested, and the result was great!  I’m the music director of a small church with a very decent singing congregation and choir […]