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We are seeking an assistant concert site manager for the ACDA Eastern Division Conference, February 9-12 2022 in Boston. Please contact me if interested and available.

My friends,

It’s been a while.
I hope you’re doing well. It’s been a rough year for most of us, but I’m hoping this message finds you well and looking forward to the new year.

My wish is to end this year and start the new one in the best way possible.
It’s time to get together again and feel the beauty of music.

I am presenting to you a new commission for choirs
I am a Voice That Sings!
Here is the link to join: https://consortio.io/mbqstudio/i-am-a-voice-that-sings

Here’s a sample draft so you can hear what a solo voice performance sounds like:

The approximate length is around 4 minutes.
The score will be delivered on January 17th 2022
Here’s what you will get:
• Pre-recorded panel discussion with composer & lyricist
• PDF of score
• Listing on inside cover of score
• Live session with composer
• pre-recorded panel video
• midi rehearsal tracks
• monthly Zoom mixer for choir directors of project

The deadline to register is January 5th (payment can be made up to the delivery date, 1/17)

I hope you can join us!

Warmly,
Michael

Bring new music to life and reinvigorate your choir program this year by joining Graphite Publishing’s 2021-22 Commissioning Consortium:

https://consortio.io/graphite/2021-22–christopher-harris-christine-donkin

Graphite has commissioned a diverse pair of our composers to write new pieces for choir.

• Christopher Harris is on faculty at Arkansas Tech University as Director of Choral Studies and Assistant Professor of Music. He is the founder of the Houston Master Singers and has served as the Assistant Director for the Houston Ebony Opera Guild.
• Music from Canadian composer Christine Donkin has been described by critics as “stunning”, “poignant”, and “astonishingly beautiful”, her work is promoted by several publishers and is performed all over the continent and beyond.

These will be two exquisite and gorgeous works for SATB choir and piano. This project must be funded by Dec. 17th, 2021; help us bring these pieces to life! These new pieces will be written for a Level 3 difficulty rating, with easily sung lines and minimal divisions, perfect for high school, college, and community choirs. This project will deliver both PDF scores to print for all your singers and a 9-month local premiere window. Join the consortium here!

Scores delivered by Jan. 7th, 2022
Must be funded by Dec. 17th, 2021
$285 / ensemble
Difficulty: 3 · Medium
Length: 4 minutes (for each work)

Consortio 

Hello ChoralNet Community,

I would like to make a request* of you all and ask you to spread the word. My son, Ben, is missing. He left in a huff Saturday afternoon and hasn’t been home or in contact since. He is on a national missing persons database and was last seen in a town in Arkansas just west of Memphis. That is a decision point, highway-wise, so he could be anywhere.

He has mental health issues and does not have his medication. He is also a wonderful musician, Dean of his local AGO chapter and directs choirs. I won’t go into details except to say he is one of us and just beginning his career and work in Sacred Music.

*Now to my request. On Thanksgiving after dinner, he played a BEAUTIFUL improvisation on the folk Hymn “Wondrous Love” along with several Mendelssohn “Songs Without Words.” If you are in church work, could you somehow work in “Wondrous Love” to your services this week and dedicate it to Ben? Could you spread the word to AGO chapters and choirs directors and pastors? Ben is very religious and he might attend a service somewhere and maybe would know we are thinking of him and praying for him and many people love him and we can get him back home.

Ben is a baptized Lutheran and has served Episcopal churches for the last ten years. I am Presbyterian and his father–not a religious guy but is the one who suggested this idea–is Roman Catholic. One of Ben’s aunts is a Methodist minister. He could show up at any of these denominations or any church, really, wherever he is. In any event, it would comfort his heartbroken parents to know that people are singing and playing “Wondrous Love” for him.

Much love and please pray for Ben,

Marie

Write Carolyn Eynon Singers at for inquiry
Basically;
Job description involves; serving on the BOD for a 2 year commitment to create awareness of the non profit 501 c3 chamber choir of 24 auditioned adults. We meet weekly as a choir from September thru May, and perform 4 concerts annually plus a fundraiser.
Our BOD meets from August thru May once a month, with social media and marketing a very large arm of the BOD.
Please inquire asap, the position is open January 2, 2022. Small stipend per month. Enthusiast volunteer with a passion for the choral art and time to donate, is what CES is needing. THANK YOU for your interest.
WEBSITE cesingers.com
phone 480-591-7000

In the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus, audio transmission delays caused us to struggle with rehearsing over Zoom. Low-latency technology, on the other hand, reduced audio delays enough for members of our chorus to sing to and listen to each other at the same time. At the end of 2020, chorus members started using Soundjack to transmit super low-latency audio. In the spring of 2021, we started using LiveLab to transmit low-latency video as well. 

On Friday, 2021 November 12, Harvey Mudd College’s Office of Alumni and Parent Relations hosted Mudd Talks: “Making Music Using Low-Latency Technology in the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus.” Sarah Michal (Artistic Director) and David Liao (Bass Section Member & Low-Latency Project Chief) gave a presentation including live demonstrations of singing using Soundjack and LiveLab. 

Find out more by watching the video recording of the session on Harvey Mudd College’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHuZggd_3Cc and visiting the companion website at https://15til.com/talk.njgmc.