FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: MIDDLE SCHOOL MEN by Gretchen Harrison 1. "Canto del Agua," David Hill, TTB, Alliance SMP 0834 This Venezuelan folk song is fun and full of teachable concepts. GREAT bass line! Absolutely appropriate for MS men's choirs. There is lots of text so memorization can be tricky. 2. "Tenting Tonight," […]
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Dave Brubeck Memorial Concert
DAVE BRUBECK MEMORIAL CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE AT WWW.SARATOGACHORALFEST.ORG SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. The Saratoga Choral Festival will present a memorial concert for Dave Brubeck at the SPA LITTLE THEATER on Sunday, July 28th, at 3:00 p.m. Featured on the program will be his rarely heard choral music for chorus, orchestra and jazz combo including the popular Pange Lingua […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, July 14, 2013
An all French program this week to celebrate Bastille Day. Rob Kennedy Host of Great Sacred Music Sundays, 8-11 a.m. eastern http://theclassicalstation.org ———————————— 08:00:27 Francois Couperin: Offertoire ~ Messe pour les Couvents Philippe Lefebvre, organ Clicquot organ in Saint-Gervais de Paris Cesar Franck: Panis angelicus Accentus, Laurence Equilbey Pavol Breslik, tenor; Sonia Wieder-Atherton, […]
CJ Replay: Rutter’s “The Falcon”
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “John Rutter The Falcon: A Textual Analysis,” by Robert J. Ward) The Falcon, Rutter’s first large scale choral and orchestral work, was written in 1969 while the composer was a post-graduate student at Clare College, Cambridge. The work is cast in three movements, and is scored […]
CJ Replay: Forming an ACDA Student Chapter
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “Forming a Student Chapter of ACDA,” by Lori Wiest) Student chapters of ACDA have been established by the American Choral DirectorsAssociation to provide opportunities for future choral directors to be involved with their professional choral organization while still in college and high school. A student chapter […]
CJ Replay: Defining “Good” Music
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal “Understanding and Applying Aesthetics,” by Randall Gill) “Junk!" "Drivel!" "Pabulum!" Perhaps every choral director harbors a secret fear that these adjectives or others like them will at some point be directed toward the literature performed by his or her choir. If it is the conductor's intent to […]