Choirs can now apply to perform at the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Seoul, Rep. Korea (WSCM10) 7-14 August 2014. Would your choir like to perform at the world’s most prestigious choral event and participate in the excitement and thrill amongst the world’s best? The International Federation for Choral Music and UNWTO ST-EP Foundation (ST-EP […]
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Nearly Christmas! New British record release
Hello everyone. I’m very excited to tell you about the new release by the British choral group Albion – SALUTATION. SALUTATION tells the Christmas story through new realisations of six beautiful and much-loved carols, leading us on a midwinter’s journey from longing expectation to joyful birth. Listen to our special preview […]
Stick Time: Entering the “Field”
I like the way football teams come on the field. Flags flying! Cheerleaders flipping! Bands playing a fanfare! Smoke, and fireworks, and confetti, and cheers! Choirs, well, usually not so much . . . Finding a way to enter the concert hall (our “playing field”) in a manner that provides a little interest […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, November 11, 2012
Music for Veterans Day this Sunday. If you have not heard Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, it is profoundly moving on so many levels. Britten was anti-war. He abhorred war and its senseless violence. He wrote his Requiem for the re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral which had been destroyed in World War II. But Britten was also passionate […]
Free a cappella CDs for your students
If you direct a junior high or high school choir, introduce your students to the fast-rising world of a cappella music! Tunes To Teens is a program of the nonprofit Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) that sends a cappella CDs (for free!) to junior high and high school choruses across the US and around the […]
GUEST BLOG: “The Importance of Youth in our Future” by Amanda Quist
The Importance of Youth in Our Future by Amanda Quist The next time you are in a high school or college choral rehearsal, look around you: seated somewhere is the next president, your future CEO, the next Alice Parker or Robert Shaw. The future of choral music in America is being shaped right now […]