She thought she was all alone . . . While talking with a newly-minted choral music teacher about the initial couple weeks in her first job, it soon became all-too apparent that she was the only music teacher in that school. Sadly, she was already feeling lonely. Rather than being surrounded by other choral […]
Search Results for: choir
“sequel” to Peace oin Earth and lots of l;ittle crickets
Following the overwhelming popularity over the last few years of my SA/percussion Walton publication “Peace on Earth…and lots of little crickets”, I’m happy to announce a sort of sequel to it. It’s an uptempo SA/piano arrangement of the American folk tune “Clap your Hands” which shares its melody with “Old Joe Clarke”. It was commissioned […]
9/11 WE ARE ONE (America’s Day of Wrath)
A poem by Sheryl Sawyer, a wonderful poetess, so moved me that I composed music to it. Since schools start in late August, and September 11 occurs so soon after that, no one has time to prepare this piece for any event regarding the tragedy. Maybe someone will consider preparing the piece at the end […]
Robert Moran Requiem to be debuted at 9/11 concert
“Trinity Requiem” was commissioned by Robert Ridgell for his Trinity Youth Group, comprising young people from the five boroughs of New York. Most of the performers were born around the year 2000, too late for any personal recollections of the tragedy the music attempts to address. Moran tried to keep his musical vocabulary direct, and […]
Gayle Marcus to lead Prairie Arts Chorale
GRANITE FALLS, MN — The Prairie Arts Chorale, composed of singers from southwest Minnesota, is now under the direction of Gayle Marcus from Willmar. Marcus, who has a master’s of music degree with specialization in choral conducting, currently is an adjunct music instructor at Ridgewater College Hutchinson Campus. Marcus’ first endeavor with Prairie Arts Chorale […]
Cantata 113 by Johann Sebastian Bach
This Sunday on Great Sacred Music The Choir of St. Paul’s Church, K Street, Sequentia and the Corydon Singers will be featured in the first hour of Great Sacred Music this Sunday beginning at 8 a.m. eastern. They will sing music by Thomas Haweis, Hildegard von Bingen, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Anton Bruckner. At 9 […]