Ass="view_more">"A Palette to Paint Us As We Are" by Elizabeth Alexander. Text by Geral Rich. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir ...  Ass="view_more_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">moreAss="view_more" style="display:none;">"A Palette to Paint Us As We Are" by Elizabeth Alexander. Text by Geral Rich. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Give Us a Palette to Paint Us As We Are. Enough of black and white, yellow and red, Those false colors that sham at fact. Coffee chocolate, and cafe au lait Ivoried-saffron and saffroned-ivory, Bronze and brAss, copper and rose gold, Tea and pale butter, golden almond, Infinite varieties of browns and tans, Pale rose, pink, and soft rose cream, Mahogany, oak, cedar, and champagne. These Are the colors of people I see, Not black and white, not yellow and red. Those false colors no longer will do. Give Us a Palette to Paint Us true.  Ass="view_less_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getPrevioUs().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">less

Ass="view_more">"I Had a Paint Box" by Z. Randall Stroope. Text bAsed on "The Paint Box" by Tali Shurel (age 13), from the book "My Shalom, My Peace: Paintings and Poems by Jewish and Arab Children". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center in the ...  Ass="view_more_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">moreAss="view_more" style="display:none;">"I Had a Paint Box" by Z. Randall Stroope. Text bAsed on "The Paint Box" by Tali Shurel (age 13), from the book "My Shalom, My Peace: Paintings and Poems by Jewish and Arab Children". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center in the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: SUsan Dodd. I had a Paint box. Each color glowing with delight. I had a Paint box with colors warm, With colors cool and bright. I had no red for wounds and red for blood. I had no black for an orphaned child. I had no white for the face of the dead. I had no yellow for burning sands. But I had a Paint box. Each color glowing with delight. I had a Paint box with colors warm, With colors cool and bright. I had orange for joy and life. I had green for buds and bloom. I had blue for clear, bright skies. I had pink for dreams and rest. I had a Paint box. Each color g...    Ass="view_less_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getPrevioUs().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">less

Choosing exactly the right repertoire for an ensemble is one of the most essential responsibilities of a conductor.  We want mUsic that stimulates growth within the ensemble, and also enriches the mUsical Palette of the singers and of the audience me...

[this is a version of a post which first appeAred on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I met a Painter a while back and he Asked me if I wAs an artist. I told him that I didn’t Paint, but that I worked with mUsic. He then Asked: “...

Ass="view_more">It's a choir whose aim is to combine modern mUsical visions with choir mUsic. Nowadays, clAssical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the lAst 20 years Palette of mUsic offered by the media hAs been watered down on an unprecedented sc...  Ass="view_more_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">moreAss="view_more" style="display:none;">It's a choir whose aim is to combine modern mUsical visions with choir mUsic. Nowadays, clAssical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the lAst 20 years Palette of mUsic offered by the media hAs been watered down on an unprecedented scale, and the frigthening fact is that human values can be found less and less in them. The Voisingers is a novel approach to each song by the newly born transcripts, a new community, a decision that evaluates and realizes - considering mUsical needs of young people more than ever - the further development of the world-famoUs Hungarian choral mUsic  Ass="view_less_link" href="javAscript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getPArent().getPrevioUs().style.display='';$(this).getPArent().style.display='none';">less