| Borrowing request: Anything You Can Do (SSA) | Jason Sickel | March 25, 2012 |
| Item: Anything You Can Do (SSA) from Annie Get Your Gun
Composer/Arranger/Edition: Berlin/Kerr HL 08564471
Starting: as soon as possible
For: 2 months
Copies: 40
Willing to rent: No
It seems that the only setting of this classic Irving Berlin number is in 2 parts and every other voicing is o... |
| Comment: Re: Fifth grade music | Jason Sickel | February 2, 2011 |
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Stephen,
To be more specific regarding BriLee publications, I have had wonderful success with three of Mark Patterson's pieces:
The Silence and the Song
This Shall Be for Music
Life Has Loveliness
Another excellent piece that "hooks" younger students is Under the Calico Tree by... |
| Forum message: La Tricotea - help with translation | Jason Sickel | November 28, 2010 |
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I'm needing assistance with this anonymous and apparent Spanish drinking song entitled La Tricotea. It is in the choral public domain and I understand that some of it might be gibberish but I'd like to get another perspective. Any help you can give, especially on this first verse, would be gre... |
| Comment: Re: Repertoire for Middle School Boys | Jason Sickel | November 3, 2010 |
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Hi Erin,
I'm currently having success with Laura Farnell's setting of Cantate Domino (TTB). The first tenor occasionally touches the A below middle C and spends most of the piece in the treble clef - PERFECT for your upper voices! Another Farnell piece that seems to fit my boys well ... |
| Comment: Re: What books have helped you the most as a choral director? | Jason Sickel | October 25, 2010 |
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Pamela,
In addition to the James Jordan texts, I have found the Shirlee Emmons' book entitled "Prescriptions For Choral Excellence" to be an outstanding resource for me. I feel comfortable with its ideas and strategies because Ms. Emmons was such a well respected voice teacher & coa... |
| Comment: Re: Song needed for Boys' Choir High School | Jason Sickel | August 24, 2010 |
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How about Let All Men Sing by Keith Christopher? Accessible four part texture with a final chord that would fit your description perfectly!
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| Comment: Re: Unison Music for Middle School | Jason Sickel | July 25, 2010 |
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Hi John,
I think you're on to something in terms of your focus on unison singing and I'd like to concur with what Linda and John Howell have said. I often forget that unison singing is one of the best ways to teach the foundation of intonation and appropriate choral vowels. I'm not s... |
| Forum message: Singing in band?? | Jason Sickel | April 21, 2010 |
| My instrumental colleague has approached me about including singing in his band rehearsals in order to further develop the aural skills of his students. In our district, he is a 5-12 band director. We met today about the best way to start incorporating solfege and singing in all of his band rehe... |
| Comment: Re: High school choir voice placement | Jason Sickel | April 1, 2010 |
| Hi Carolyn,
What a wonderfully valid question and I hope you receive many helpful comments!! First of all let me say that I'm in my 6th year of teaching and I can tell you that I have learned a great deal from my students and... (this is important!) by watching other outstanding veteran choral di... |
| Forum message: Need help with last line of Daemon | Jason Sickel | February 23, 2010 |
| I'm hoping those of you with an excellent understanding of Latin use and syntax can help me better understand the last line of Orban's Daemon Irrepit Callidus. I've been working to make sure I have a solid word for word translation for myself and my students. Can you help me translate the last l... |
| Forum message: HS Choral Budget issues | Jason Sickel | February 6, 2010 |
| The state of Kansas and my local school district are looking at unfortunate and drastic cuts to public education. I teach both middle and high school choir in a smaller district (500 students in the high school) and have always enjoyed a great deal of administrational and financial support. I'm ... |
| Comment: Re: "Love" Song Suggestions | Jason Sickel | December 28, 2009 |
| Hello Dannielle,
I think anything by James Mulholland is a sure-fire winner!
To contrast this, you might consider Kirke Mechem's The Lighthearted Lovers based on John Dryden's poem "Fair Iris I love and hourly I die..." I have been listening to it quite a bit lately and find it very enjoyabl... |
| Comment: Re: Seeking repertoire suggestions... | Jason Sickel | December 27, 2009 |
| Craig,
I have had great success with You Stole My Love. Based on the repertoire you have mentioned, I think your students would be able to handle the MacFarren arrangement, although there are many other settings out there.
Jason Sickel |
| Forum message: Need SATB middle school winter/holiday suggestions | Jason Sickel | October 10, 2009 |
| I have a middle school intermediate choir with 7th & 8th graders combined. I need some suggestions for winter or holiday music that is upbeat, appropriate for middle school voices, and has a rather high tenor part (A below middle C on up to G and A above middle C).
Thanks for your help!
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| Forum message: Combined Middle & High School Boys | Jason Sickel | August 28, 2009 |
| I'm considering a spring concert finale that would involve a combined piece including both my middle school boys (7th & 8th grade) and high school guys. Has anybody had experience with this and if so, what piece(s) worked the best?
Many thanks,
Jason Sickel
Choral Director
Louisburg Mi... |
| Forum message: exciting 2-part literature for 6th grade choir | Jason Sickel | May 26, 2009 |
| Dear Colleagues,
I teach in a school district where I'm responsible for choirs in grades 6-12. I have found that if I can "hook" the 6th graders and get them to love singing, then they stick with me for the remainder of their middle school career and then in to high school! My elementary feed... |
| Comment: Re: Middle School (SAB) rep for Holocaust service? | Jason Sickel | April 20, 2009 |
| Kurt,
I personally think Stroope's Inscription of Hope is absolutely perfect for this event especially since the text is taken from a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany where Jews were hiding from the Nazis.
Another possiblity would be Leavitt's arrangement of Oseh Shalom (I believe it even ... |
