Vox Humana, a new 24-voice chamber choir based in Nashville, Tennessee, is currently raising money for its upcoming concert and recording on June 20th. Please check out the Vox Humana website at: www.voxhumanaensemble.com for details about donating, participating in the on-line auction (two choral composition commissions are included), or attending the VH concert/dinner on Sunday, […]
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The War on Pronouns, cont’d
[one of an occasional series on political correctness in church anthems…] Today’s travesty: the anonymous Renaissance anthem Rejoice in the Lord Alway, which contains the line "let your softness be known unto all men", now corrected to "…be known to all the world". My wife, who directs the children’s choir, last year had […]
Opportunities and Realities
Here is the third part of my vision for impacting our world for choral music. There are two previous entries: An Opportunity for Every Child Doing it – In Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap, the author outlines seven survival skills for the 21st century. For each of these areas, we must individually, in […]
Doing It –
This is a followup on my previous entry, An Opportunity for Every Child. How We Are Going to Do It Over the last two years I have traveled the country holding round table discussions, children’s leader summits, focus group and industry meetings, attending association and guild events, and engaging in numerous detailed discussions on […]
“There is an old belief” SATB Score and Rights to Copy/Print (FREE)
“There is an old belief”, text: John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), music: J.D. Jude Jicha (b.1984; Lawrence Conservatory ’06) This challenging accapella piece “on” F-major begins and ends with striking unisons and divides into as many as 8 parts ranging from F2 to A5. It offers many possibilties through rubato for the skilled conductor. There are […]
Angelic Voices
Choral music lifts spirits. Even in a flood. This from Nashville during the flood: The Morgan Park students were forced to leave their hotel rooms, abandoning their costumes and personal belongings, and headed for higher ground. “When we went to the upstairs, to the ballroom, we sang, and people were like, ‘Wow,’ recalled choral director […]