SOLD Cassocks- Red Only - $5 - mostly child size
CONTACT INFO in ATLANTA below.We have a variety of red choir cassocks available for sale for $5 each. (They currently retail for $60 each.) They are all the same style mostly made by Gaspard. Sizes are...
View ArticleChristmas Music Lists
Would it be appropriate to share what music we've programmed for the Christmas services?
View ArticleRenaisance Polyphony Weekend with William Mahrt
Spanish Vespers will be the music sung by the Renaissance Polyphony Weekend in Dallas, Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. For a pdf of a complete brochure of the event, e-mail mahrt@stanford.edu
View ArticleHELP: Epiphany Hymns/Motets (2nd Sunday of Epiphany)
Hello,I am hoping to get some advice, as I am ignorant about music in the Tridentine form. I've been tasked with selecting music for low mass, but I do get confused when it comes to if our music should...
View ArticleLenten choral music with accompaniment
I usually do nearly all a cappella music for Lent, but I'd like to find a piece or three with accompaniment to trot out this Lent. Any suggestions?
View ArticleTracking Down English Communion Settings
Does anyone, perhaps someone working with Anglican Use parishes, know where one could find some of the older English communion service settings, such as Titcomb's Communion Service in D, and settings...
View ArticleFascistol makers?
By any chance, does anyone know of a good fascistol maker?The closest thing I could find are these beautiful music stands by Alden Lee Company. They're so perfect for quartets and stuff.They don't have...
View ArticleHow to choose a good rehearsal day and time?
In asking the choir if they would like to continue with Monday night rehearsals (as last year), some said they will be taking college classes on Monday nights, others said they are afraid to come out...
View ArticleInevitable: Papa Francesco "likes" Missa Criolla.
From a new topic at PTB:Cardinal Sean O’Malley (Boston) writes about his visit to Argentina:When I had to make a trip to South America for the US Bishops Conference to visit projects in Paraguay that...
View ArticlePop music writer transformed by Mozart
The composer's choral piece 'Ave Verum Corpus' becomes a part of Times pop music writer Randy Lewis' life and leads him to a performance of a lifetime with the Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale.
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Stand up straight, hold your music high, face forward.
The protestant need to see the choir perform has badly influenced Catholic choirs, even those who are aware that choirs do not sing for the people.When in Nashville I observed the Men's Schola very...
View ArticleSpritual reflections for hard working singers
I wonder if anyone has a link to some reflections for those of us who work very hard at doing our absolute best, especially during a musically difficult week such as this one, and have very little time...
View Articleintroducing change
As mentioned in another thread, I am working on a "5-year vision" for music at our parish. One point is to do the Propers "properly" with congregational responses. If and when I'm asked, "OK, how do...
View ArticleColloquium workshop: Leading and energizing volunteers
I've been talking with Arlene, and am planning to lead a workshop at the Colloquium around best practices in leading an enthusiastic choir of volunteers. I know that many of us are choir or schola...
View ArticleNew Renaissance Style choral work
Dear Friends, some time ago I was working with a friend of mine on a project to set the Memorare to music in the renaissance style, Victoria to be precise. Well we got bogged down and weren't able to...
View ArticleSEP & PBoEP
Do I need to obtain any permissions or pay anyone to record Simple English Propers and/or AOZ's English psalms? My children's choir is working on a recording to be sold to raise funds for a...
View ArticleChoir Directors: celebrate our CMAA composers by singing their works!
To me, whenever Chuck Giffen, Richard Rice, Peter Kwasniewski, Michael Olbash, Noel Jones, Francis Koerber, Heath Morber et al address this forum, I react as if in the old E.F. Hutton commercials, I...
View ArticleCMAA Magazine
I received my FALL CMAA MagazineWonderful to see articles of such variety, by new authors !
View ArticleCamera and monitor for conducting organ
Hi all,Our parish is having our annual Christmas concert, and we are using the Saint Saens Christmas Oratorio this year. Our traditional setup for a concert is with the choir and instrumentalists in...
View ArticlePronunciation of H in Latin
I was considering the pronunciation of one of my choir's choral pieces this week, Hodie Christus Natus Est. I realized that I have always taught my choirs to make all Latin "H's" silent (excepting mihi...
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