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This week Dr. Joel Tranquilla of the Canadian Chamber Choir takes a closer look at “Tabula Rasa” by BC composer Don Macdonald. Cypress Choral Music Publishing is excited about the work Joel does for choral music in Canada and we are happy to help share it. Enjoy! Visit the Tabula Rasa page on Cypresschoral.com https://cypresschoral.com/composers/don-macdonald/tabula-rasa/

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope you and your loved ones are all safe and well during this difficult time. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts has announced semi-finalist COMPOSERS in all divisions for 2021, including in choral music. A link to the listings on our blog is below. Finalist announcements […]

Thanks to posting a request to collaborate for a short collage-film in progress, I was contacted by the multi-talented Cathy McEvoy, https://cathymcevoy.com/ Via our correspondence I was introduced to her lovely composition, An Coinneal (Irish for “candle”). I live in the United States and Cathy lives in Ireland, so I am really bowled over that […]

Could ten weeks change your life? What if you spent those weeks all alone on a fire lookout tower in the Pacific Northwest near Mount St. Helens, with your only human contact from the once-a-week food delivery? That’s what put Morten Lauridsen on track to becoming one of the greatest living composers. This book is […]

American Choral Directors Association’s 2021 Robert Shaw Choral Awardee, Rodney Eichenberger, officially received his award surrounded by a few close friends and colleagues at his Oregon home, and joined by many others online during the last day of ACDA’s national conference in March. In making the award, Past National ACDA President Karen Fulmer noted that […]

Bent, But Not Broken is a four-day conference that amplifies the musical contributions of Black musicians and composers across time and across genres. Combining performances from artists like EXIGENCE, American Spiritual Ensemble, Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand, and Dr. Rollo Dilworth, with discussions and workshops by some of the nation’s most accomplished scholars such as Dr. […]

I have 15 copies of this SATB Thanksgiving anthem composed by Virgil T. Ford. The cost is $.30 cents per copy plus the mailing postage. Listen to the YouTube video and let me know if you would like to buy copies for your choir. https://youtu.be/io44YJGB1LY

I have ten manuscript copies of this choral anthem by my father, Virgil T. Ford. The size is 5 1/2″ X 8 1/2″. These copies are free if you agree to pay the mailing charge. Listen to the YouTube video and send me an email if interested.

I have copies of this SATB anthem, composed by Virgil T. Ford. The cost is $.25 cents per copy plus the mailing postage. Listen to the YouTube video and let me know if you would like to buy copies for your choir.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope you and your loved ones are all safe and well during this difficult time. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts has announced semi-finalist conductors in all divisions for 2021. The links to the listings on our blog are below. Finalist announcements are expected in May. […]