| Concert: Guys and Dolls: Music for Men by Women Composers | Frank Albinder | May 18, 2012 |
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Join the Washington Men's Camerata for our final season concert on Saturday, June 2nd at 7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The entire program will be devoted to the music of women composers, including rarities by Hildegard von... |
| Community Forum Post: A Category Problem | Frank Albinder | April 23, 2012 |
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Hi All,
This morning, Jack Senzig submitted this post (please take a look) in Forums: Repertoire Questions and Discussions. I didn't think it was the right category, since the post doesn't ask a question about repertoire or require discussion, so I moved it to Announcements: Community Notic... |
| Comment: Re: Male chorus and American poets | Frank Albinder | April 20, 2012 |
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You should check the Musica database at www.musicanet.org. You can search by author to find things for particular voicings with texts by poets you like.
You can also check the online database of the Washington Men's Camerata's National Library of Men's Choral Music here. You can search the ... |
| Announcement: Thomas Jenrette receives Marshall Bartholomew Award | Frank Albinder | April 16, 2012 |
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Dr. Thomas Jenrette, Director of Choral Activities at East Tennessee State University, received the Marshall Bartholomew Award on April 13th at the 45th National Seminar of Intercollegiate Men's Choruses at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. The award was established in 1978 to honor those who... |
| Comment: Re: music advocacy video | Frank Albinder | March 26, 2012 |
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Here's a great piece 60 Minutes ran a couple of years ago in response to a study on choral singing conducted by Chorus America.
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| Concert: Washington Men's Camerata presents Visions of the East | Frank Albinder | March 19, 2012 |
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Join the Washington Men's Camerata this Sunday, March 25th, at Church of the Epiphany in Washington, DC at 4:00 p.m. for "Visions of the East," a concert of music featuring works by Osamu Shimizu, Ko Matshshita, Taki Rentaro, Victor Paranjoti and more. We'll be performing the U.S. premiere of four... |
| Comment: Re: Erb's Shenandoah TTBBB | Frank Albinder | March 19, 2012 |
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I'm pretty familiar with this arrangement, since he wrote it for the Virginia Glee Club at the University of Virginia, which I conduct, and it's always in our repertoire. Did you notice his footnote at the bottom of the page? "Close immediately to consonant "n," stressing the third eighth-note." T... |
| Comment: Re: Performing Biebl's Ave Maria: how long is too long, and where do you place your choirs? | Frank Albinder | March 12, 2012 |
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Hi all,
Speaking as a ChoralNet moderator, this thread has wandered way off course for some of you. The original post was about performance options for the Biebl Ave Maria. If you'd like to continue a discussion about Renaissance instruments and church acoustics, please start a new thread.
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| Comment: Re: Burying the alleluias | Frank Albinder | March 12, 2012 |
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It seems like the question has been thoroughly answered, so in the interest of saving our subscribers from having to read a lot of "me too" posts, we're closing this thread to further comments.
On behalf of your volunteer ChoralNet moderators,
Frank
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| Community Forum Post: Take a look in the Classifieds... | Frank Albinder | March 10, 2012 |
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...and you'll find several posts from the same guy. The first one, about wanting a job, I approved last Monday. The poster deleted it and submitted a new post on Friday that has basically the same information, plus a picture. Allen correctly points out that once a post is approved, the poster can'... |
| Concert: Go west, young men! | Frank Albinder | February 20, 2012 |
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Hi all,
I'm bringing The Virginia Glee Club, the 141-year-old men's chorus at the University of Virginia, on tour to the West Coast during our spring break. If you're near one of our concerts, come say hello and enjoy the rich, warm sound of men's voices raised in song. Admission is free (e... |
| Community Forum Post: Organizational vs. Community Announcements | Frank Albinder | January 23, 2012 |
| Someone just submitted an announcement about a university
alumni reception in the organizational category. I changed it to a
community notice and approved it. I then went to the Organizational
Announcements page to see what was there. At the top of the page,
it very clearly says the category is for ... |
| Community Forum Post: Kalamazoo Bach Festival solo voice competition | Frank Albinder | January 23, 2012 |
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We got a post from them today and I discarded it and wrote to tell her that we couldn't post it because it's not choral in any way. She wrote back to say that we approved the same post last year (we might have even discussed it then) and they got over 1100 views. Any suggestions on what we should ... |
| Community Forum Post: About the Gay Composers thread... | Frank Albinder | January 23, 2012 |
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I approved a couple of more messages today on this lengthy and now off-topic thread and then I closed it to further comments. There might be some folks who complain about not being able to comment anymore, but I think the messages have strayed so far afield from the original poster's question that... |
| Comment: Re: Men's Chamber Chorus Repertoire | Frank Albinder | January 20, 2012 |
| While Chanticleer is a male ensemble by gender, it's mostly
an SATB ensemble in terms of repertoire. So their programs wouldn't
be of much help. Cantus is a professional TTBB group that performs
a lot of interesting men's music. You can find them, their
recordings and their programs online.
Check ou... |
| Community Forum Post: I finally snapped... | Frank Albinder | January 9, 2012 |
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John Howell posted the first response (as I knew he would!) to a question about administrative medling in a choral program. The original poster mentioned that he wasn't sure he was posting his message in the right category (he was). John ended his response with this PS:
P.S. This does see... |
| Comment: Re: Masterwork for 80 voice HS choir | Frank Albinder | December 23, 2011 |
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When I think of masterworks, I think of larger-scale works by major composers, especially since you say you want to expose your students to some of the "great works for large chorus."
While nearly all "choral masterworks" are meant to be accompanied by orchestra, Brahms wrote a two-piano ac... |
| Comment: Re: Salt Lake Children's Choir Patapan | Frank Albinder | December 19, 2011 |
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http://bit.ly/s3IDWp
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| Community Forum Post: Anyone else getting messages from GroupTwin.com? | Frank Albinder | December 9, 2011 |
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I've received six of them today and wonder if they're trolling the ChoralNet archives and spamming people...
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| Comment: Re: Raucous drinking and sailor songs for men's voices | Frank Albinder | November 9, 2011 |
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Drunken Sailor is the classic that everyone does to great effect. Here are a few others of varying levels of difficulty and sophistication:
A-Rovin' - arr. Ron Jeffers
Away to Rio - arr. Marshall Bartholomew
Chantey - Tom Benjamin
Sick of the Songs of the Sea - Charles Bennett
Ward ... |
| Comment: Re: Purchasing copies of compilation books | Frank Albinder | November 7, 2011 |
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I've run into this challenge a number of times and have frequently been able to pay the publisher of the collection for the rights to photocopy one piece from the book. If the publisher has a web site, you'll likely be able to find information on requesting permissions on the site and complete the... |
| Forum message: Piano four-hands accompaniment for Parry's "I Was Glad?" | Frank Albinder | October 20, 2011 |
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Hi all,
One of my choruses is participating in a combined performance of Parry's "I Was Glad." The organ in the hall doesn't work, so we're having to use piano accompaniment, which will likely seem weak with 175 singers. I'm curious to know if anyone has ever arranged the keyboard part for ... |
| Website suggestion: ChoralNet Website Suggestions | Frank Albinder | September 19, 2011 |
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Donald Patriquin submitted a post as a follow-up to a recent
thread about ChoralNet:
"This post is in response to the many replies made to
Charles Chapman’s provocative statement: Why ChoralNet is not
"taking off" It would be useful for concerned readers to make
specific sugg... |
| Comment: Re: Why ChoralNet is not "taking off" | Frank Albinder | September 16, 2011 |
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Jim wasn't speaking of communities in the broad sense; he was talking about ChoralNet Communities, which can be found under the purple tab on the ChoralNet home page. They're more specialized groups that ChoralNet users can start and moderate on their own--kind of like Facebook groups, but living ... |
| Concert: Community Chorus of Detroit -- 2011-2012 season | Frank Albinder | September 5, 2011 |
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2011-2012 CCD Season
We are pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Community Chorus of Detroit season.
For our fall program, we will perform George Frideric Handel’s legendary Messiah with orchestra and soloists. Performances will be held at our beautiful new home, Jefferson Avenue Presb... |
| Forum message: Wagner: Das Liebesmahl der Apostel | Frank Albinder | September 2, 2011 |
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I stumbled upon this work by Richard Wagner (The Holy Supper of the Apostles) and was surprised--I'd never heard of it before. Does anyone have any experience with it? It's for triple men's chorus (!), 12 basses (the apostles) and full orchestra. Wagner wrote it in 1843 for a large men's chorus fe... |
| Community Forum Post: Should I post this? | Frank Albinder | August 26, 2011 |
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I feel the need to remind people how to reply to CN messages, so I've written a post:
http://www.choralnet.org/view/293485
Do you think it would do any good? I feel like occasional reminders might be a good idea...
F.
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| Comment: Re: Easier works for double chorus | Frank Albinder | August 22, 2011 |
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Jacob Handl - Haec est dies
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| Comment: Re: COOL repertoire for middle school boys | Frank Albinder | August 18, 2011 |
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At our local summer ACDA conference last week (ACDA Voices United), Philip Keirstead from Marsteller Middle School in Virginia did a session on music for this age group. Here's what he chose:
My America, arr. Laura Farnell, TB, Hal Leonard
Rain Music, Laura Farnell, TB, Hal Leonard
Moun... |
| Comment: Re: Alister McAlpiaes Lament | Frank Albinder | August 8, 2011 |
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Hi Dan,
I see it listed on the RVW Society page here:
http://www.rvwsociety.com/worksarrange.html
And it looks like you can buy it here:
http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/054569/details.html
Best,
Frank
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| Comment: Re: Poulenc "Gloria" | Frank Albinder | July 26, 2011 |
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Hi Eileen,
My collegiate men's chorus sang the Poulenc as guests of a collegiate women's chorus a few years ago. They couldn't afford to hire an orchestra so we did it with organ. I have to say that I thought it was less than successful. Poulenc's orchestrations involve so many distinctive ... |
| Comment: Re: Folk song from India | Frank Albinder | July 25, 2011 |
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earthsongs publishing is a great source for world music. You can search by region, country, voicing, etc. I'm sure you'll find something there.
Frank
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| Community Forum Post: Just a reminder... | Frank Albinder | July 22, 2011 |
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...that we shouldn't be approving requests for solo repertoire. I rejected a message from someone on Monday who was looking for a solo soprano song. (And I wrote her explaining why.) It turns out she was looking for the song to do in unison with her girls chorus, but she didn't say that in the mes... |
| Comment: Re: Christmas TTBB in Spanish | Frank Albinder | July 21, 2011 |
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Here are a few off the top of my head:
Riu, Riu, Chiu, arr. Jim Leininger (Alliance)
La Virgen Lava Pañales, arr. Parker/Shaw (Lawson Gould)
Fum, Fum, Fum, there are several different arrangements/voicings--check JWPepper.com
A la naninita, arr. Norman Luboff (Walton)
Carols and Lu... |
| Comment: Re: pinkham christmas cantata | Frank Albinder | July 15, 2011 |
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Dan Pinkham was my professor in graduate school and I sang in his church choir, so when I wanted to perform the TTB version of the piece with one of my choruses in 2000 and couldn't figure out the published materials, I gave him a call to get the skinny. He wrote the single gender versions of Chri... |
| Comment: Re: Mozart Requiem -- flutes and oboes | Frank Albinder | July 1, 2011 |
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Because the original poster has had his question answered, we've decided to close this thread to further comments (since they're getting farther and farther afield). If you'd like to contact any of the folks who have responded to this thread, click on their name and then click on Contact this User... |
| Community Forum Post: A couple of things | Frank Albinder | June 30, 2011 |
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Hi all,
I saw all the posts and flags about the James Taylor arrangement, so I posted a "final" comment in the thread explaining how users can contact David directly for the music, and then I locked the thread to further comments.
When I got my digest this morning, I noticed two mess... |
| Comment: Re: James Taylor Shed a Little Light for SATB arrangement?! | Frank Albinder | June 30, 2011 |
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Rather than continue approving messages asking for copies of J. David Moore's arrangement, we've closed this thread to further comments. If you'd like to see David's arrangement, you can contact him directly by clicking on his name and then clicking on Contact This User on his personal page.
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| Community Forum Post: New questions on older threads | Frank Albinder | June 24, 2011 |
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Hi all,
There are two posts in the Forum queue that ask new questions on threads that have mostly run their courses. Would you approve these new posts or ask the posters to start completely new threads? We don't have an official policy on such things, but it strikes me that it would be bett... |
| Community Forum Post: Clearing out the queue | Frank Albinder | June 17, 2011 |
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Hi all,
I'm tired at looking at so many flagged messages in the queue, so I'm dumping (or approving) them. In case you didn't see the pertinent flags, here are the basics:
We've been getting a number of what appear to be duplicate posts lately. If you... |
| Community Forum Post: Blank posts | Frank Albinder | June 3, 2011 |
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Hi again,
I've cleared out the queue, mostly because I'm tired of looking at all those flags (though I accidentally approved one more Music Storage File Cabinet post. Oops.). I also sent a message to each of the flagged posters explaining why we weren't posting their message and how they ca... |
| Community Forum Post: Music Folder Storage Cabinet Posts | Frank Albinder | June 2, 2011 |
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Hi all,
By now you've probably all seen the backed-up posts on this subject in the Forum queue. I've written the woman with the plans two different ways--through ChoralNet and through Facebook--but haven't received a reply. I doubt she's seeing the recent additions to this nearly two-year-o... |
| Comment: Re: What are your must have pieces for sacred male ensemble? | Frank Albinder | May 17, 2011 |
| I think he might be thinking of Robert Hunter's arrangement,
published by Hinshaw. I don't know of an arrangement of the piece
by AP. |
| Community Forum Post: Approved double post in today's digest | Frank Albinder | May 12, 2011 |
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I'm not sure if there's a solution to this problem, but I thought I'd put it out there in case anyone has any ideas. When I received my digest this morning, I noticed two posts that appeared to be the same. The first one has slightly different spacing than the second, but other than that, they're ... |
| Comment: Re: Disposing of Unwanted Music | Frank Albinder | May 1, 2011 |
| You can also offer the music for sale right here on ChoralNet
under Classifieds: For Sale - Used. Or you can give it away under
Classifieds: For Free. |
| Comment: Re: 9/11 Concert Repertoire for Men's Chorus | Frank Albinder | April 2, 2011 |
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Here are a few off the top of my head:
Dona Nobis Pacem - Joseph Gregorio
In Remembrance - Eleanor Daley
Last Letter Home - Lee Hoiby
In Flanders Fields - Stephen Chatman
Five Ways to Kill a Man - Bob Chilcott
We Shall Walk Through the Valley In Peace - arr. William Appling
Lass... |
| Comment: Re: pronunciation of 'Elijah' | Frank Albinder | March 25, 2011 |
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I think a lot of us use IPA, but a lot of folks can't type it on their computers, so they have to improvise.
I've been watching this discussion with some amusement as I've moderated the responses for ChoralNet today. I honestly never knew that the correct pronunciation of Elijah involved pu... |
| Comment: Re: Settings of the Ten Commandments | Frank Albinder | March 24, 2011 |
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There's a wonderful set of canons by Franz Josef Haydn: Die heiligen zehn Gebote, H. 27a.
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| Concert: Mozart Requiem to celebrate Virginia Glee Club's 140th Anniversary | Frank Albinder | March 14, 2011 |
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Greetings, colleagues,
To kick off the Virginia Glee Club's 140th anniversary celebration this weekend, the U.Va.'s oldest musical organization will present a performance of Mozart's Requiem in D Minor. If you're in the Charlottesville area, we hope you'll join us for what promises to be a ... |
| Comment: Re: Amen in Levin edition of Mozart Requiem | Frank Albinder | March 3, 2011 |
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After years of hearing, singing and conducting the standard Süssmayr completion of the Requiem, it's hard for me to accept any of the various alternate completions of the work (though they're always interesting to listen to). Here's an interesting paragraph the Wikipedia article on the Requiem. A... |
