“It is indeed a challenge to try to satisfy everyone’s professional interests. Like many of you, I belong to MENC, ACDA, and now, NCCo. Some of you also belong to the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Each organization is unique; each provides something of great value to us as choral musicians. What concerns […]
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175 Boys Sing Together
All-City Boychoir Festival: 175 boys from Greater Cincinnati to spend a day singing together On Saturday, February 25th, the Cincinnati Boychoir will present the first-annual All-City Boychoir Festival, for any boy in the first through fourth grades from the Greater Cincinnati area. Boys will spend a morning rehearsing music, learning music theory, and getting […]
Joining Black, Jewish Voices
By Deborah Hirsch PHILADELPHIA — Between raising two young boys in Merion Station and working as an organizational consultant, Lisa Kollisch Gottesman said she never had time to keep up her former involvement in choral singing. Just the first rehearsal “reignited my passion for singing,” said Gottesman, 52.But at a friend’s urging, last week she […]
Choral spectacular chosen to be in nationwide spotlight
By Leanne Ehren CAMBRIDGE, UK — An Uttlesford choral spectacular is one of only 15 projects in the UK chosen for a nationwide event to herald the 2012 Olympic Games. Three choral groups – Saffron Walden Choral Society, Granta Chorale and youth project SignuptoSing – are to join forces for Maze Music, a one-off gala performance. […]
Easter Introit by Bob Moore
New from Bob Moore and just in time for Easter. Available from GIA Publications: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=19834 Text (from the Gospel of Luke): Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, he is risen. Alleluia! A short, fanfare-like setting for SATB choir, trumpet, chimes (optional) and organ. […]
Lisa Hanson Honored As Teacher Of Year
By Christine Gordillo LAKEWOOD, OH — Congratulations to Lakewood High School Choir Director Dr. Lisa Hanson for being named the Ohio Music Education Association Teacher of the Year. Hanson was told of the honor in a surprise announcement at the conclusion of the Winter Choral Concert, December 14. Hanson, who is in her 15th year at LHS, directs the […]