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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 […]

I am seeking recommendations for public domain SSA madrigals appropriate for a group of twelve (12) relatively strong 11-12th grade girls. I’m new to high school this year after nine years of middle school, so I was hoping to learn from others’ experience.   There was another ChoralNet posting on this subject, but nothing was public […]

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 […]