Many choir MDs find that one size definitely doesn’t fit all when it comes to sheet music for their community choirs. You may be running a mixed ability choir, or a choir with a limited vocal range. It may be (as the Case sadly is with many communit...

Just in Case your choir hasn't already participated in this new research from Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK, this is a reminder that the survey is open until the beginning of September. The study is exploring why people sing in choirs, ch...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Many of us are in choirs where a particular section needs bolstering. In my Case it’s a lack of altos, for others it might be too few tenors.  ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   2012 is almost over so I thought it would be an idea to look back on my most popular posts of the year in Case you missed any of them. Just click on the tit...

  Episode 165 on YouTube! In this episode I draw on a few sources, including audience comments to present an advocacy conversation. To make the Case for Choral Music classrooms, infrastructure support, and educational priorities. You will see or he...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s usually the Case that professional singers have had some sort of training in a particular singing technique.   photo by Kevin Cea...

Tania de Jong AM makes the Case that people singing together can change the brain. Pushing the idea that creativity is the strategic tool of the 21st century, she says how our voices have been silenced and that it's not doing us any good. She explains how...  moreTania de Jong AM makes the Case that people singing together can change the brain. Pushing the idea that creativity is the strategic tool of the 21st century, she says how our voices have been silenced and that it's not doing us any good. She explains how singing is a survival mechanism, how it makes our hearts beat together and can help heal strokes and depression. With singing, and the potential she believes it has, Tania dedicates herself to enhancing and promoting ingenuity and founded Creativity Australia and Creative Universe to do so. As a leading Australian soprano and through 'With One Voice', Tania works with disadvantaged communities. In 2008 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the arts and for the establishment and development of arts enrichment programs for schools and communities. Connect with Tania: Tw: @TaniadeJong FB: https://www.facebook.com/taniadjongam Ln: http://www.linkedin.com/in/taniadejong G+: https://plus.google.com/102004449932208558046/posts...    less

(Music begins at 3:30 after introduction) World Premiere - Florida ACDA Conference - October 31, 2014. Treble Voices (Lake Nona Middle School) & Lake Nona Singers-(Lake Nona High School)... Justin Chase, Courtney Connelly, & Michelle Bendett, director...  more(Music begins at 3:30 after introduction) World Premiere - Florida ACDA Conference - October 31, 2014. Treble Voices (Lake Nona Middle School) & Lake Nona Singers-(Lake Nona High School)... Justin Chase, Courtney Connelly, & Michelle Bendett, directors. - - - For the score, go to: sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-it…n-monn-nouvo - - - Haitian Creole text by: Gabriel T. Guillaume - - - English Translation Yon Monn Nouvo (A World Anew) Open your ears and listen, Hear and listen, my friends. Open your hearts and hear, Hear and listen, my brothers: Both you and I are full of dreams; You help me and I help you. That is how we will come to build a world anew. “With many hands, the load is light." “One finger alone cannot eat okra.” Knowledge and wealth are goods of humanity That we must share in all friendliness. These are statements that bring happiness; Words of wisdom that make life harvest. We are, each one of us, seeds of eternity That sprout and bloom in our humanity. L...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] In Case you haven’t noticed: this is the modern world.   photo by Yoel Ben-Avraham   If you’re not promoting your choir on social ...