continued from Solfège: Part 4: Teaching Modes with Solfège Solfège: Part 5 Solfège Exercises This episode in my series of posts on Solfège recounts examples of solfège exercises I used in high school choir rehearsals. My usual practice was to begin every choir rehearsal with physical stretches followed by vocal warm-ups and solfège exercises (or […]
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Chor Leoni announces weekly livestream – Chor Leoni Inside – premiering April 1 @ 7pm PST
(Vancouver, BC) Vancouver’s JUNO-nominated Chor Leoni is inviting audiences far and wide to tune in on Wednesday evenings for Chor Leoni Inside, the choir’s new livestream show premiering April 1st (7:00pm PST) on Facebook and YouTube. Hosted by Chor Leoni’s Artistic Director Erick Lichte, Chor Leoni Inside features high-quality concert videos from the past seven […]
A Word to Choral Conductors & Singers During This Challenging Time – Lynne Gackle, ACDA National President
For many of us, our ensemble rehearsals and performances are cancelled for the foreseeable future. The community found within the choral rehearsal or in the concert between singers and audience is now even more precious since we find ourselves without the ability to make music – together. Resulting feelings of sadness, frustration, pessimism, loneliness and […]
Leading Voices: “What Would it Look Like?”
What Would it Look Like? This was the heading of the activity I distributed to my SATB Concert Choir for the last period of the day, on Friday, March 13th. Earlier that same day, we found out that due to the COVID-19 outbreak: The District Vocal Concert on Wednesday, 3/18 was postponed, The High School […]
KYLE PEDERSON wins The American Prize in Composition, 2019—choral octavos division
KYLE PEDERSON of Eagan MN s the winner of The American Prize in Composition, 2019, in the choral division (octavos), for his compositions entitled Can We Sing the Darkness to Light?; Psallite; In the Beginning; Stars; A Mighty Fortress is our God. KYLE PEDERSON was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, May 29, 2016
My playlists are on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – May 29, 2016 https://goo.gl/PKf1Ei Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern. Rob Kennedy WCPE The Classical Station Web: TheClassicalStation.org Facebook: www.facebook/theclassicalstation —————————– 08:01:36 Edwin Fissinger: Lux aeterna Woodley Ensemble, Robert Lehman Matthias […]