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Colleagues,   My 48 voice HS honor choir will travel with our 85 member symphony orchestra this spring. For our tour program, we’d like to include a finale with combined forces. You can see from the numbers that balance will be a concern. Any suggestions for a strong finale in which the singers will a) […]

I am looking for upbeat and powerful songs for the processional and recessional of our schools Baccalaureate ceremony for the end of the year (It’s the Senior class liturgy).  We have an SSAA choir and an orchestra.  We’ve been using the same music for the last few years (Sing, O Sing, Here we go Rejoicing) […]

I have a wonderful ladies’ vocal ensemble of 14 members.  Six of these will graduate this spring, and I want to feature the group somewhat in our spring gala.  I am interested in a piece 10-15 minutes in length that will not only challenge and showcase these lovely voices, but that will be an audience-pleaser as well.  […]

I have been searching for an online/mp3/wav recording of Robert Boyd’s arrangement of “Sigh no more, Ladies”  Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can find a recording of this arrangement?  Here the choirs sing, and countless google searches have lead me astray.   Thank you,   Jason Meissner Director of choirs Wauwatosa West High School Wauwatosa, […]

Aspen Grove Music announces its new website. At the site directors can find multi-page score samples of all of our acclaimed choral music.   If you are a director looking for music that is fresh, exciting and compelling, come to the grove … Aspen Grove Music.   www.aspengrovemusic.com

I am looking for an arrangement of Mel Brooks’s “Men in Tights”.  I’m with the Portland Symphonic Choir and several of us men want to perform it for a fund raiser.   Does anyone have it (and would let me borrow) or know where I can obtain it?   Thank you, Joshua Strickler Baritone

Which, if any, text book (s) have you found to be “the text book that you must have to teach undergraduate choral conducting”. These students have taken one semester of instrumental conducting. This course is entitled “Advanced Choral Conducting and Choral Literature”…..Juniors in college are eligible to take the course. I hope to hear from […]

“Mid-winter Songs” Morten Lauridsen on poems of Robert Graves   Don McCullough www.donaldmccullough.com  

My school finally changed to a schedule that allows us to have choir (and band) the entire year.  We need to find an Oregon festival that would be appropriate for us to consider attending, as “beginners”, so to speak.  We are a 7th/8th combined group with no audition required for admission.  (I will also need […]

I am looking for as diverse a group of choral arrangements of Stephen Foster songs as I can find. The arrangements can be anything from 2pt to SATB with some divisi, accompanied or a capella. I would love to have suggestions from the collective body who subscribes to ChoralNet.   Thank you for your help […]