Wayland Rogers has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Wenger International Choral Composition Competition sponsored by the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies. The winning work, ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE, is for SATB a cappella choir on a Shakespeare text.
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Play List for Great Sacred Music, Sunday, November 6, 2011
We contine our survey of the various liturgical forms with a sampling of Te Deums this Sunday. One of the reasons I post this play list each week is to give you some ideas of sacred choral music worth a listen. I hope that you find it helpful. Enjoy! Great Sacred Music airs […]
NCCO 2011: First impressions
NCCO is in Fort Collins, Colorado this week. It is the fourth conference for the relatively new organization. I’ve been to three: the first in San Antonio, the second in Cincinnati (with my choir performing), and this one. This is a very strong conference – top notch sessions and very strong performances from college […]
Conductor as dictator
A podcast on station WQXR talks about changing role of the orchestra conductor. It was Arturo Toscanini whose famously broke batons, berated musicians and even threw a score at his orchestra during rehearsals, all we were told, in the service of the music. By the 1960s, collective bargaining agreements and workplace rules helped to do […]
Stick Time: Ears
Like any good coach, we all work to train our teams to get the most out of their bodies: to use their voices with tremendous skill, to focus the energies of their breathing mechanism, to mind their posture whether seated or standing. This choir has obviously work do develop the hearing of the singers to […]
CJ Replay: The Conductor’s Face
“As choral conductors we are called upon to grasp hold of a composer’s intentions and then communicate those intentions first to our choirs and then, through performance, to our audiences. The conductor’s primary tools of communication are gestures, though in our rehearsals we rely heavily on words often far too heavily. Ab, the patience of […]