| Comment: Re: Choral Masterwork Suggestions for beginning and intermediate singers | Colleen Mahal | February 19, 2010 |
| HI Everyone,
This is a wonderful list. Thank you for all your input. We ended up choosing the Vivaldi Gloria and it is a wonderful fit!
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| Comment: Re: Jul, jul, stralande jul | Colleen Mahal | February 19, 2010 |
| Hi Roland (what a great name for a musician!)
Here is what I found on jwpepper.com
WONDERFUL PEACE
(Jul, Jul, Stralande Jul)
Gustaf Nordquist/arr. Davison
WALTON MUSIC CORP. Medium Easy
One ... |
| Comment: Re: your core repertoire | Colleen Mahal | February 19, 2010 |
| Stephen,
Your post is wonderful. I could use the same advice as well. It is also a great rep. list. Thank you for taking the time to post in such wonderful detail. |
| Forum message: How to find an orchestra for a high school concert | Colleen Mahal | December 24, 2009 |
| I have decided to do my first large choral work with my high school choirs. I think it is an amazing experience to sing a great work with a full orchestra. However, I really want to find a great orchestra to join us to help make the event extra special. We don't have a high school orchestra th... |
| Forum message: Choral Masterwork Suggestions for beginning and intermediate singers | Colleen Mahal | November 4, 2009 |
| I am looking for a choral-orchestral masterwork that I can do with my singers of beginning and intermediate level. I want them to experience the great choral masterworks and have a good challenge put before them but nothing extremely difficult. I am combining with two other schools in my distr... |
| Forum message: Make Up activities for High School Students | Colleen Mahal | October 2, 2009 |
| I grade heavily on daily participation and performance. However, I have had a few students out sick due to the flu and they want to make up their missed participation points for they days they were sick since the absence is excused by the school and technically I am required to let them make up th... |
| Comment: Re: HS Choir Rehearsal Time | Colleen Mahal | October 2, 2009 |
| I teach two high school choirs in a school of about 1500 students. We meet alternating days so some weeks it is MWF and the next will be TTH. We meet for 95 minutes each class. I actually prefer to meet every day for only 50 minutes so the students retain more the next time I see them.
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| Comment: Re: Sight-singing Series | Colleen Mahal | August 14, 2009 |
| Nancy Telfer's "Successful Sight Singing" is progressive, colorful and fun. You can do just a little daily for 5 minutes and before you know it your making great progress.
Writing out your own exercises on over-head/powerpoint or on the board is always great too. |
| Forum message: Music Folder Storage Cabinets | Colleen Mahal | August 6, 2009 |
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Hello Everyone,
Does anyone have recommendations for music folder storage cabinets that are under $1,000? I love what Wagner offers but it is too expensive. If anyone is looking to donate or sell theirs I am looking for a 60-100 shelf cabinet that fits orchestral ... |
| Comment: Re: Easy and fun pieces to start the year with | Colleen Mahal | August 6, 2009 |
| Starting the year with good unison pieces, canon pieces and part songs is a great way to begin. This way you can teach good tone and tuning with a nice unison piece, then advance to a canon which begins to teach independence of parts. On the first day you can teach everyone a unison song and beg... |
| Forum message: Practice Files | Colleen Mahal | July 9, 2009 |
| Hello Everyone,
As I am preparing for the school year and thinking about all the
new musical possibilities that lie ahead, the daunting thought of
note-learning brings me to a screeching halt in my lofty
dare-to-dream goals of possible great music making.
I was wondering how all the other wonderful ... |
| Archive Comments: School Musicals | Colleen Mahal | March 22, 2009 |
| Hi allDoes anyone know if there is a website that has a database of school musicals and can rate them according to the musical, staging, production difficulty?Thank youColleencmahalchoral@gmail.com |
| Archives: School Musical | Colleen Mahal | March 22, 2009 |
| Fellow Teachers:I wanted to thank everyone for all the great advise regarding my previous question about doing musicals. I just finished the musical at my high school for this year and we are now planning the musical for next year. The drama teacher has given me a suggestion for next year, he ... |
