A favorite song heard every Christmas is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” music and lyrics by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. Teaching in high school, I loved to work with vocal jazz and one Christmas I made an a cappella arrangement of this song for my POP Group. But because of copyright, it […]
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Submissions for Choral Journal’s New ADEIBR Column, Lift Every Voice
Lift Every Voice is a new column in Choral Journal concerning issues of access, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and restorative practice (ADEIBR) in choral music. ACDA hopes that this column can provide a space to incubate ideas about inclusive practices and provide mentorship for choral practitioners. Logistics: 1,000-word minimum; 3,500-word maximum Shorter pieces on similar […]
2022 Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Competition
2022 Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prizes NDSU Challey School of Music honors the legacy and traditions of noted choral composer and long-time NDSU choral conductor Edwin Fissinger with its annual choral composition competition. Guidelines Entries should be: • for mixed choir (SATB), divisi is acceptable • unaccompanied, or with keyboard accompaniment, obbligato instruments ok • […]
Twelve Songs by Zemlinsky arranged for Soprano Solo, SATB Chorus, and Piano or Chamber Orchestra
I wrote my 1993 doctoral dissertation based on this set of songs. Nearly all of Zemlinsky’s music entered the Public Domain in 2012. In 2017–2018, I completed a newly edited piano/vocal score which includes my own English translations. I also orchestrated the songs and created versions of them for soprano solo and SATB chorus. Copyright […]
“Twelve Songs” by Zemlinsky arranged for Soprano Solo, SATB Chorus, and Piano or Chamber Orchestra
1. Abduction (Entführung) – Stefan George2. Summer (Sommer) – Kalidasa3. Spring (Frühling) – Kalidasa4. Now Is the Time (Jetzt ist die Zeit) – Kalidasa5. The Rejected (Die Verschmähte) – Amaru6. The Autumn Wind (Der Wind des Herbstes) – Kalidasa7. Misery (Elend) – Langston Hughes8. Harlem Dancer (Harlem Tänzerin) – Claude McKay9. African Dance (Afrikanischer Tanz) – Langston Hughes10. Give Me a Song Again (Gib ein Lied mir wieder)– Stefan George11. The Time of Rain (Regenzeit) – […]
Indigenous Composers Choral Composition Competition – Call for Scores
Deadline Extended to March 1, 2022! Indigenous Composers Choral Composition Competition This call for scores by the University Chorale at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro specifically seeks to amplify the voices and compositions of composers who identify as Indigenous, Native peoples of the Americas, and/or First Nations, and write in any compositional style […]