Are you looking for a way to encourage members of the choir to take ownership of their sound while simultaneously reducing your chances of ending up in a rubber room? Barbara Retzko can help. In her article “Perhaps Wishing Will Make It So” (ChorTeach, Volume 4, Issue 2), Barb discusses how posting her “Wish […]
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Choral Caffeine: Strange But Cool
Over the next few weeks, many of us will feel it. We’ll be sitting at the ACDA Conference listening to a brilliant performance that includes avant garde repertoire, and we’ll think to ourselves, “Wow, that piece is cool. Strange but cool. Shoot . . . there is no way my choir could possibly sing […]
Canadian Symposium Aims to Foster Choral Conductors
By David Gordon Duke VANCOUVER — One of the things that animates our choral environment is that Vancouver’s many impressive choirs take their community responsibilities seriously. In outreach and thinking over the long term, the record of the Vancouver Chamber Choir is particularly strong. Leaving aside full seasons of concerts, plus national and international touring, […]
New ChoralNet Composition Showcase/Market Ready for Beta Testing
The ChoralNet Composers of Choral Music Community has gone to great lengths to create a new interface between composers and conductors. We recognize the difficulties in searching through individual composers’ websites, trudging through so many listings to find the one piece that fits your needs. We also understand that many of you have […]
Robert Parker Music presents: Music for Lent!
The penitential season of Lent is celebrated differently in each denomination and congregation, and its music is performed differently by each choir. But the special magic of music of the season is the contemplation of mystery—something that is not only proper to this time of the Liturgical Year, but appropriate for this time of the calendar […]
Profile: Dr. Jason Bishop
By Cyndie Zahner ERIE, PA — ‘Never underestimate young people,” Jason Bishop, Ph.D., often advises. “If we expect great things from them, they begin to expect great things of themselves.” Bishop said it is the greatest lesson he has learned while working as the artistic director for the Young People’s Chorus of Erie and as […]