Male singers are like dollar bills. We never seem to have enough. Choral conductors have been dealing with this problem for centuries; certainly we have commented about it time, after time. What’s a choral educator to do with only a handful of male singers bobbing helplessly amid a sea of female voices? One possibility […]
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“Five from the Folder: Boy Choir” by Ken Taylor
FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: BOY CHOIR by Ken Taylor 1. “Annabel Lee.” Patti Drennan. Hal Leonard 08703365. Beautiful, haunting setting of Edgar Allan Poe; simple TBB with divisi. 2. “Kyrie Eleison” – Dan Davison – Hal Leonard 08501555. Energetic TB piece; it feels like it was written by Mozart. Good for teaching tone […]
Name That Choir Tune (No. 2)
“Five from the Folder: Treble Choirs” by Ashley Conway
FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: TREBLE CHOIR by Ashley Conway 1. “Sisters” (from “My Girls”). Gwyneth Walker. SSA a cappella. Treble Clef Music Press. This text can serve to unify women of all backgrounds because we, indeed, are all “sisters.” School-yard clapping and an upbeat tempo make this a popular piece with choirs. 2. […]
CJ Replay: Reposition That Choir
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Choral/Orchestral Balance: An Old Problem Reviewed” by James Fankhauser) Can anyone imagine a choral director who would not choose to have his choir within eight feet of the podium for choral-orchestral works? Does anyone really like placing the choir at the back of the stage, behind […]
New Pieces for Women’s choir by See-A-Dot Publishing
We pride ourselves on carrying a small, tightly curated, and excellent collection of new choral music, and we love it so much we want to make sure it’s available for anyone who wants to perform it. Whenever possible, we (well, the composers usually) create arrangements of each piece for a variety choir types, so if […]