The Lord bless you and keep you has just been released by Hal Leonard. This setting by PHILIP STOPFORD is for ‘a cappella’ choir SSATB and can be performed at any time of the year. Series: Henry Leck Creating Artistry Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation SSATB A Cappella Composer: Philip Stopford An absolutely stunning […]
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Grammy for Best Choral Performance
By Anastasia Tsioulcas Best Choral Performance: Whitacre, Light & Gold This album of choral selections, all written by Eric Whitacre (of “Virtual Choir” fame), was an obvious front-runner for this category, in terms of broadest-level name recognition and most widespread programmatic appeal. To wit: Fellow nominees included not one but two albums of music by contemporary […]
Revised “Song of the Klutz” — “pussycats” are now “kittycats”
A kind choral director just told me that the word “pussycats” in my new and recently-announced piece “Song of the Klutz” was liable to generate snickers (or worse) in adolescent choirs. So, I have changed the word to “kittycats” and hope that solves the problem. The revised score can be downloaded (still FREE) from my […]
Alan Davis : Go Love, Red Red Rose for SATB (div) a cappella
Go Lovely, Red Red Rose is a collaboration of two texts; “Go, Lovely Rose!” by Waller, and “A Red, Red Rose” by Burns. This piece features creative divisi and tells a story of a man talking to a rose about the woman he loves while secretly she is standing over his shoulder listening. The level […]
A Valentine Treat from SoundWaves
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A Day in the Life of a Choral Music Ed Student
By Pat Sutphin CARBONDALE, IL — At 7:30 a.m., the music begins. For Monica Bertrand, a senior from St. Charles studying music education, the last note does not hit until well after the sun sets. Bertrand begins each day by assisting Carlyn Zimmermann, choir director of Carbondale Community High School. Bertrand said she is not […]