APRIL-MAY 1964
Official Publication of the AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION Front FRANCO COLOMBO, INC. (:HORAL MUSIC SUITABLE FOR YOUR 1964-1965 SCHOOL YEAR
For the APRIL IS IN HER LOVELY FACE-Morley /Wilson , 25 MADRIGAL SINGERS FORTH FROM THY HOME ON HIGH-Du Caurroy (Fr. Eng.) 25 GOOD MORROW, MY LADY-Scandello , 20 NOW .NOEL HAS COME AGAIN--'-Darcieux (Fr. Eng.) , .. , , 30
For the COME TO THE WATERS-Da Vittoria (Lat. Eng.) 25 A CAPPELLA CHOIR THE RAISING OF LAZARUS-,-Willaert (Lat. Eng.) 25 ALLELUIA-Scarlatti 25 0 LEAVE ME-Monteverdi (Lat. Eng.) (SSATB) 25 A BOY IS BORN-Ammann (Lat. Eng.) 20 DESCEND, THOU HEAVENLY. DOVE-Palestrina (Lat. Eng.) 20 HODIE GHRI$TUS NATUS EST-Sweelinck (Lat, Eng.) (SSATB) 25 COME, CELES'J'IAL FIRE-Gesualdo (Lat. Eng.) (SATTB) _,_:.::~~,,,._,__,gQ___ . ------
For the THE SOLDIERS' CHORUS-Donizetti 25 MALE CHORUS DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN-Fitzgerald (TBB) 20 McCARTHY'S MARE-Fitzgerald 25 THREE WHALE SONGS-Kastle 60 THE CONSPIRATORS' CHORUS (Rigoletto)-Verdi 25 JUBILATE DEO-Wiltberger/Vene (Lat. Eng.) 25
For the HEART,WE WILL FORGET HIM-Smith (SSA) 20 GIRLS' CHORUS WE TALKED AS GIRLS DO-Smith (SSA) 20 SPRING COMES ON THE WORLD-Smith (SSA) , 20 WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTER'D--'-Castelnuovo-Tedesco (SSA) 25 A SONG FOR MAY (French Folk Songj=--Vene 20 SLEEP, BABE DIVINE-Gevaert/Harris (Fr; Eng.) (SSAA) 20 HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST-Monteverdi (Lat. Eng.) (SSA) 20 PETITES VOIX (5 Choruses)-Poulenc (Fr. Eng.) (SSA) 35 MUSETTA'S WALTZ SONG (La Boheme)-Puccini/Vene (SSA) 20 MISTS (Nebbie)-Respighi/Harris (It. Eng.) (SSA) 20 4 AZURE EPIGRAMS-Fernandez (SSA) 25
For CHRISTMAS ISAIAH'S PROPHECY-Paul Creston (SATB with Soloists) Chorus Parts 1.25 Vocal Score 5.00
For. your SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN-Arthur Kreutz (A new folk opera in one act) SPRING MUSICAL Vocal Score 7.50
For FESTIVAL GLORY TO GOD-Bach/Wilson (Band arr. by Lang) SATB with BAND Full Band 9.00 Chorus Parts 25
OPERATIC CHORUSES BALLAD on themes from THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST- Puccini/Ross (Baritone Solo and Mixed Chorus) 35 PROLOGUE IN THE HEAVENS (Mefistofele)-Boito (SATE) .75 SONG OF PRAISE (Toscaj-e-Puccini/Vene (SSATB) 25 FRANCO COLOMBO, INC. 16 '\Vest 61st Street New York 23, New York GYMANFA GANU cooperation that has been apparent in all might become part of the national con• ACDA conventions. It was a joy to vention in future years. PROVES A SUCCESS sing, a joy to hear, and a joy to see so Assisting Bill at the piano was Mrs. many members having a wonderful time Blanche F. Bowlsbey of Maryland, who "What is it?" and "How do you making music together. The outgrowth was pressed into service at. the last min• pronounce it?" were the most common of this and the reading se~sions was an ute and did a fine job. Our congratula• reactions to the Wednesday evening 7 :30 expressed desire on the part of many tions and thanks to Bill, both for the section of the Convention program which members to have an ACDA chorus which idea and its successful conclusion. • announced William Roberts, Wilkes• 0. SINGING CITY announces Barre, Pa., as conductor of a Gymanfa TWO SUMMER WORKSHOPS IN THE CHORAL ART On beautiful 40-ocre campus of Crozer Seminary 13 miles from Philadelphia Ganu (pronounced Geh-mahn-vah Gah• August 9-1 5, 1964 ·. CO-ORDINATED STUDY AND REHEARSAL OF THE ENTIRE WORKS OF ORLANDO nee). Proving both a delightful speaker DI LASSUS. Elaine Brown ond Julius Herford, Co-directors 2. August 16-22, 1964 and director, Bill very shortly succeeded AN INTEGRATED STUDY OF VOCAL AND CONDUCTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE CHORAL MUSICIAN. Elaine Brown, Phyllis Jenness ond Singing City Stoff in capturing some of the flavor of a For further information writer SINGING CITY, 35 S. 9th St., Philo. 7, Penna. real Welsh hymn-sing and exposed many ACDA members to their first acquain• tance with some of the more traditional Welsh hymns that are the basis for such a "sing". Specially prepared songbooks, the beauty of the hymn arrangements, and the spicy Welsh-English comments found the half-hour allotted too short with calls from the participants to sing other tunes in the book before breaking WHEN I GAZE ON THY LIPS OF ROSES up the session. 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Announces Choral Reservations should be sent to Dr. Vernon Fay, Director of Choral Activi~ Directors Workshop ties at Northern Illinois University, De• Kalb, Ill., by June 20, 1964. 8 This summer, the Music Department of Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, The Original offers a concentrated three-day Choral Directors Workshop under the leadership of Dr. Lara Hoggard, Music Director and Conductor of the Midland-Odessa ~q~i~ Symphony Orchestra and Chorale in Texas. Dr. Hoggard is one of America's . <5obrirl Jaure ~ THE PERFECT MUSICAL OFFERING FOR foremost choral authorities and a highly. Lenten, Palm Sunday, successful director. He is well known for and Memorial Services his seven years work ..as choral· director with Latin and English Text by and assistant conductor of Fred Waring's DR. LAitA HOGGARD MACK EVANS Pennsylvanians. His choral works and -VOcCllScore, complete $r:oo- --- hearsal of the Vivaldi "Gloria," Dr. arrangements are published by Shawnee Full Orchestral Score, $10.00 Hoggard conducting. Press. Through hundreds of festival con• Harp part $2.00 6. Friday, July 3 at 4 p.m. The (from the orchestration) certs, music workshops and seminars, Dr. Organ part $3.00 Hoggard has inspired and challenged culmination of the Workshop: an Open (from the orchestration) Orchestra parts available on rental students and teachers alike toward the Rehearsal of the Vivaldi "Gloria" with only from the goal of excellence. During the past 15 Chorus, including Workshop members, H. T. FitzSimons Co., Inc. years he has conducted more than 300 and orchestra. 615 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. choral workshops, festivals and clinics, All interested musicians may enroll in and has published more than 30 choral the .1964 Choral Directors Workshop works and various articles for profession• for a fee ·of $25.00. al journals and publications. Graduate students enrolled in a full Take ... For those interested in choral work course of study in the summer session this intensive 3-day workshop is an out• Good Acoustics standing opportunity. Not only will Dr. with you. o. Hoggard bring his professional experi• Missouri Establishes ence here to ·share with all who attend; District Chairmen but all Workshop Members attending will be able to exchange ideas that work. Following the January meeting of The Workshop will include, on each about 35 Missouri ACDA members at of the 3 days: their luncheon at which time Dr. Archie Jones was featured as guest speaker, the l, A Master Class on Choral Tech• state was divided into six districts by niques and Vocal Procedures, voice State Chairman Kent Toalson and other building, tone production, technique of members to assist in state ACDA affairs the vocal art. Dr. Hoggard. and to serve as a steering committee. 2. Summer Chorus rehearsal of Vi• Those chosen to serve are Northeast, Dr. valdi's "Gloria," conducted by Dr. Hog• Kenneth Miller, Kirksville; Northwest, Porlatfe gard. Workshop members will join this Gene Bryant, Maryville; Southeast, large group to work under Dr. Hog• Doyle Dumas, Cape Girardeau; Central, gard' s direction and observe his rehearsal Carl Burkel, Jefferson City; St. Louis, SHELLS technique. Dr. Charles Procasky, University City; 3. Seminar on Rehearsal Problems. and Kansas City, Gene Kelsey, Indepen• and Risers An open discussion of fine points of re• dence. o Improve the sound hearsal technique, with Dr. Hoggard An impressive performance by the of your group 100%! presiding. Heritage Singers of the University of For complete information write 4. A Conductor's Chorus (workshop Missouri under the direction of ACDA members only), Dr. Hoggard, conductor. WENGER MUSIC EQUIPMENT CO. member, Dr. W. Everett Hendricks, 24 Wenger Bldg. Owatonna, Minn. 5. Thursday evening: orchestra re- was presented at the dinner.
THE CHORAL ,JOURNAL temporary art collection in' the afternoon .. · man of the SUNY Buffalo Music De• State U at Buffa.lo was followed by an open rehearsal of partment ; Eric Salzman, music critic on Sponsors N~w Momenie to Weekend participants. The the New York Herald-Tribune, and evening event, a panel and open discus- composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. sion on the topic, "Is. Choral Music Ob- Fallowing special morning services at Music Festival solete ?" was headed by Lukas Foss, of various Buffalo churches featuring works Under the joint sponsorship · of the the Philharmonic orchestra, with George by living composers, the final concert Music Department, State U ·of New Rochberg, Chairman of U of Pennsyl- was presented at 2 :30 with works of York at Buffalo,· the Buffalo Philhar• vania Music Dept. and visiting Glee Pro- Boulez, Moussorgsky, and featuring the monic Orchestra, and the Albright-Knox fessor at Buffalo; Allen Sapp, Chair- American premiere of the M omen le. 8 Art Gallery· and under the directorship of Robert S. Beckwith of the Buffalo Music Department, a week~nd of New Choral Music was featured Feb. 29 and NEW - bg :Jean J3erger March I at Buffalo.' In the invitational PSALM 140 (Deliver Me, 0 Lord), PSALM 146. (Praise letter sent out by Beckwith the following Ye the Lord). Two new, original pieces for chorus with. questions were listed. What is to blame string accompaniments .. These are excellent concert works for. the present state of affairs in choral for college, professional; or high school groups. String music? Have vocal and choral training parts are for Violin I and II, Viola, Cello, and Contrabass. failed to keep up (with contemporary Choral score for each, 50c demands)? Are composers willingly turn• HOW LOVELY ARE THY TABERNACLES ing their back on the natural demands A concert piece for double chorus and soloists, a cappella, of the human voice? What new possi• in three parts. Part I 50c, Part II 50c, Part Ill 50c bilities are being explored? AUGSBURG 426 South 5th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415 Buffalo's Weekend of New Choral PUBLISHING HOUSE 57 East Main Street, Colum.bus, Ohio 43215 Music will bring together a group of peo• ple concerned for the future -of the choral a rt to consider some of these questions. The Weekend. is built around a central A event: the American premiere of Karl• UNIQUE heinz Stockhausen's latest choral-orches• EDUCATIONAL tral work, M omenie, which dramatizes EXPERIENCE in vivid and practical fashion the special FOR THE challenge of,advanced·. choral Il1usic. The. Buffalo Orchestra. and its new director;" MUSICALLY• Lukas Foss, have undertaken. the Stock• TALENTED hausen premiere as part of an entire sea• BOY son of audacious programming, which has spread Buffalo's reputation as a Copyright 1964 by ·The· :Arfiertcan ·Choral .. Directors Assciciation, P. APRIL - !\IA Y l!Hi4 ;~ NOMINATING COMMITTEE SLATE ACCEPTED ,J. CLARI{ RHODES HAROLD DECKER HARVEY E. MAIER At the I :30 General Session Wed• dent Bernard Kohn to serve the 2-year and David . N. Davenport. Following nesday, March 11, Donald G. Foltz, term. suggestions from the floor and discus• Wisconsin, presented the proposed Slate Pictures of all officers will appear in sion in the joint meeting. of old and new of Officers to the Convention for con• this and the following issue of The Chor• officers on Friday, March 13, it was sideration in the election which took al Journal. Members of the Nominating decided to return to a two member slate place Wednesday and Thursday. Ac• Committee were Donald G. Foltz, chair• the next biennium, due to the phenom• ceptance of the slate was proposed by man; Jane Skinner, Benjamin V. Grasso, inal growth of ACDA. GD Mr. Foltz and seconded by Harry Ro• bert Wilson, New York, with a unani• mous vote of acceptance following. Fi• nal count of ballots which took place Thursday noon gave a unanimous con• vention vote to the proposed slate. Officers for the next biennium are J. Clark Rhodes, Tennessee, President; Harold A. Decker, Illinois, Second Vice President; and Harvey E. Maier, Mis; Music sissippi, Secretary-Treasurer. President Imig will automatically become First by Vice President on July I when the new officers assume responsibility for the or• Jerome ganization. To assure elections in future years for Moross chairmen at divisional level, the follow• ing chairmen were elected for a I year term: Eastern: Ivan Trusler, Delaware; THE CARDINAL (Main Theme): N orthwest: Robert E. Robins, Oregon; and Southwestern: Theron Kirk, Texas. STAY WITH ME ~::o~;nbleigh Western Chairman: Howard S. Swan, California; North Central Chairman: for Two Part Chorus, 25¢ Robert M. McCowen, Iowa, and South• for SSA Chorus, 25¢ ern Chairman: Paul B. Fry, North Car• for SATB Chorus, 25¢ olina, were elected for a three year term. for Voice and Piano, 60¢ Representative-at-large, J an e Skinner, California, was elected for a 2-year term Available at your local dealer and Industry Associate Representative Don Malin of Mills Music, Inc., New ~~~-~6011 York, was appointed by MPA Presi- Chappell & Co., Inc. ~~~if6~~ 4 THE CHORAL JOURNAL "' '""::··-····~·'.., ··•,-·.,···:·-:··:·~-;· -.-·"--·;~ • : i PRESIDENT WARNER IMIG Boulder, Colorado FlRsT VICE PREslDENT • THE ELWOOD J. KEISTER 'j • I Gainesville. Florida· i'" . •;.j 1 SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: .. HELEN M. HOSMER . Potsdam, New York. SECRETARY-TREASURER ]. CLARK RHODES Knoxvme·, ·' _Terlhesse'e ··· Official Publication of the American Choral Directors Association BOARD OF DIRECTORs ELAINE BROWN Philadelphia 4, Pennsyl~ani~ Copyright© 1964 by the American Choral Directors Association HAROLD A DECKER Urbana, Illinois · R. WAYNE HUGO BOOM, Managing Editor VOL. IV, NO. 5 . CHARLES C. HIRT Los Angel~s 7 •. California.· .. i R. WAYNE HUGOBOOM Tampa, Florida· 33612. APRIL-MAY 1964 • Nominating Committee Slate When the Men Came Aov1sonv. Bo~m:> Accepted by Convention 4 H enrJ) E. Busche ...... ,• .... 15 ARCHIE N. JONES . Kansas City 11; Missouri The Joy of Discovery Sit and Sight Read . 17 EARL WILLHOITE . Luther Goodhart 9 Delaware Water' Gap, Pa.· President's Convention Address N. C. Summer . Choral Workshop HARRY R. WILSON I Robert H. Ellis . 18 New York 27, New York·.· . . I Warner Imig ...... 11 e Of Choral Music for the Church ACDA Active in California REVIEWERs FOR CHORAL )oURNAL .\ Wayne Barlow . 13 Lee Kjelson ..... 20 ALFRED R. BUNDE . ·. I .Chadron, Nebraska j ANTHONY C. CAPPADONIA1 Alfred, New York .: i ·I GEORGE L. GANSZ' SHORT SUBJECTS: From the Editor, 6; President's Message, 7; From the Secretary• Philadelphia 4, Pennsyl~ania · Treasurer, 8; ACDA Convention Reviewed, 8; "Come Alive" Singing, 14; ACDA Con• MAURICE R. KING vention Has Thrilling Close, 16; Record Reviews, 19.; Luncheon Well Attended, .21; Tallahassee, Florida Wayne Hertz, 21; ACDA Minutes, 22; Book Reviews, 25 and 29; Choral Reviews, 26-27; KENT A. NEWBURY . New Members, 28. Chicago 43; ·Illinois · e REGIONAL, CHAIRMEN EASTERN COVER PICTURES: Edward F. D'Arms, Associate Director of the Ford Foun• Ivan Trusler, Newark, Del., · i dation Program of Humanities, Julius Herford, and Hugh Ross, New York, are SOUTHERN 'pictured receiving the Recognition Plaque and Honorary Life Membership Paul B. Fry, Albemarle, N. C •. Awards from ACDA. Awards were presented by President Warner Imig at the NORTH CENTRAL Thursday afternoon General Session of the ACDA Convention. Robert M. McCowen, Ames, Ia. . . SOUTHWESTERN Theron Kirk, Laredo,. Thas NORTHWESTERN · ! Bernard Regier, B,elli.nghani, Wash. WESTERN Lee Kielson, Hayward, Calif. Publication Office, Route 1, Box 2720, Port Richey, ·Florida (Do not return mail ·to, or communicate with this office) All cominunications regarding The Choral Journal should be addressed to the Editor, P. o, Box 17736,Tampa, Florida - 33612 APRIL· MAY 1964 5 for dissemination among interested di• such questions if you will submit them. rectors who should become members and All correspondence must bear the signa• 1FrfJm it is expected that before the close of ture of the sender, but no names will the Er/itfJ~ this year we should number close to be used in the Question Corner. 2,000. Each of you can help tremendous• ly if you bring only one member each Final Words Three factors will govern the future into ACDA, if you invite or insist on your size of The Choral Journal: Advertising, conducting classes becoming group sub• Membership and Subscriptions have News Material, and the growth of both scribers to The Journal, or if· you insist been discussed under the first heading. ACDA membership and Journal sub• on your school library becoming a regu• There is no need for further discussion. scriptions. The Convention issue gave lar subscriber to The Journal. Each Only a summary follows of what each members an idea of the relative size and copy means greater reading power to of you can do to .help ACDA and The scope of our official .magazine, yet this us and to our advertisers. Choral Journal continue its phenomenal level cannot be maintained without more Aside from sheer number of copies, growth. financial support than is forthcoming the most essential point for any adver• by dues and subscriptions alone. The tiser is results. And here again, we sin- To All Publisher Friends: Please give Choral Journal began using advertising cerely urge each .of you to use those ma- serious consideration to adverUsing now this year and while we are pleased with terials advertised in The Journal when and in the coming years in The Choral the results through the first four issues, you can, be sure to tell the company that Journal, of.ficial magazine of ACDA, there still ,remains the .problem of soli• their ad in The Journal does have some that sends a total of over 2,000 copies citing and maintaining enough advertis• influence on your order, and that as an to active choral directors throughout ing to help The Journal become entirely ACDA member you appreciate their as- the U. S. and Canada every other month. self-sufficient. sistance in keeping The Journal and Our distribution grows "steadily with ACDA alive and active .. Occosional .test each issue as more and more names of Advertising runs are made by advertisers to learn if buyers and users of your products are their ads have drawing power. We ask added to our membership list. Your ac- Through letters to all Associate .A each of you to respond to these requests tive support now will enable us to con• members and personal contacts, the Feb- or specials to help give the advertiser an ti ue enlarging and improving The ruary-March issue came up with a little idea of the selling power of Journal ad- C~ 1 J r al s it has grown in the over $1,000 worth of advertising. Despite vertising. Needless to say, if The Jour- . ~r~ yeoa~ n anda the entire membership -----pr,omises,this-issue-cal.'1.'ies-less-than~half--~al--Ooes-not-~ave-adequate-subscl'iption--f:;ns us in ~hanking you for your active-• that amount. It was stressed at the ltsts or drawing power we cannot ex- t . our undertakings Our 1~eeads11 Convention that we must continue to · pect. Industry to make use of our pages. ~~~~~n should only bri~g us contact not only our Industry Members Durmg the ·past year or so The Journal t th we grow in strength but al] others to secure more and longer has grown steadily in quality and quan- c 1 o~ei: ffge er as · contracts for advertising. It is an im- tity; it can and must continue to do so an m uence. possibility for your editor to do this if we are to serve both ACDA and our alone, so we ask each of you to mention advertisers. It is up to each member to To Our Members: Your individual res• advertising in The Journal each time do his part, By simple arithmetic, . if ponsibilities to your organization can you see, write, or contact your various each present member brings in one more best be summed up as follows: publishers to .help make them aware of outstanding choral conductor in his area the joint need for Journal advertising. our membership will again more than 1. Enroll at least 1 new member NOW. We also ask our Associate A members double in the next biennium. Won't you 2. Write, talk to, or contact publishers who have not as yet responded to make do your part to :help us grow? urging them to advertise in The Choral an. effort to bring some of their. adver- Journal. tising to The Journal pages. Together News Material 3. Each time you use the services of we· can· make 'I'he Journal a real force one of our advertisers, mention The among music publications, but we need In .past issues we have .been constantly Choral Journal and thank them for ad• your support and help to reach and asking for more and .more materials. vertising. maintain a level that makes The Choral We thank all of you who are so willingly· 4. Insist that your school library be- Journal an outstanding magazine. Na• contrfbuting to our pages and we now come a subscriber. · turally we must walk before we can run, have a fairly steady flow of materials but having started to walk we don't coming in. But the search is never-end• 5. Invite your school to become an In• feel inclined to creep again. ing. We urge each State Chairman to stitutional Associate under the new Con• appoint a responsible and active State stitution. Memberships and Subscriptions Editor whose job is to disseminate 6. Institute .group subscriptions among ACDA news within the state and to send conducting and/or music students, our To our members, the points that make copy about the State to The Choral future ACDA members. any publication desirable for use by ad• Journal regularly so we can maintain 7. Cooperate in any way you can with vertisers is the number of copies dis• Divisional and .State News sections every your State and Division Chairman with tributed throughout the country and the issue. To those of you who do not want present activities or suggest new or buying potential of that distribution. to or do not have the time to write long broader activities under ACDA spon• From a membership of less than 500 feature articles, we have suggested a sorship. two years ago at Chicago, ACDA now "To the Editor" column where ideas, 8. Read The Choral Journal and send numbers close to 1,400 active choral di• new wrinkles, plans, etc., can be pre• us news of yourself and your area. rectors all of whom are potential pur• ·sented briefly. There must be many chasers. Nearly 100 •subscriptions,. both questions in the minds of beginning and 9. The Choral Journal is your maga• single and group, as well as 51 Associate fairly new conductors (even you veter• zine; help make it one you can be proud A members, brings our total near to ans may have an occasional question). of. 1,600. Additional copies are furnished all We plan to set .up a panel of well-known 10. An occasional note of appreciation National, Divisional, and State Officers vocalists and choralists to answer any will be gratefully accepted. e "'A M E R I CA I s F A s T E s T s H E E T M u s I c s E R v I c E II ALL MUSIC OF ALL SHEET MUSIC PUBLISHERS Band, Choral, Organ, Cantatas, Operettas, Award Pins and Music Holders When Customer Furnishes Complete and Correct Description We GUARANTEESHIPMENT-From 1 Day to 10 Day Maximum. We carry in excess of 60,000 Educators Music Supply Co., Inc. different chorol items in stock SYLACAUGA, ALA. 6 THE CHORAL JOURNAL President's A few weeks ago it was my pleas· They are quite far removed from what we call ure to have a very stimulating as well as soul• the usual cultural benefits of our society. (This searching experience. We. who work in the may be the one reason that they sing so well.) field of the arts and particularly in the field They are singing music which is challenging . of music, I feel, are often confused or more and in fact quite sophisticated and difficult, properly feel a lack of security in this day of but they did not know it, and with good· leader· the great scientific push. The profound and ship they accomplished much. complex changes taking place in man's world Later in the same day I heard the Rehobeth today are astounding. Man's ability to man• Mission Choir sing -the following numbers: ipulate the world, to compare and evaluate Tiger' Tiger' by Virgil Thomson, Salvation Is thought, to increase physical stamina, and to Created by Tschesnokoff, K})rie Eleison by "reduce ills, is amazing. We may even ask a Haydn. Again you will note that this was a machine to solve a mathematical problem that challenging and difficult group of choral pieces. might take one hundred thousand man hours Again the. group consisted, for the most part, but only takes the machine seconds. All of of Indian youngsters; this time I believe they these many examples and thousands more are were Navajoes. Again the performance was salient features of our present society, and are stimulating and challenging. The above points 'ones that give us at times a feeling of futility are not to emphasize the fact that from Indian in working with the arts. But we must continue youngsters should less be expected, . but is to and realize the worth of our program. point out the fact that a reservation is not a But to go back to my first sentence, my very basic sort of place for some musical cul• soul-searching came after a musical experience tural advantages. But anyone can, with the I was in New Mexico a few weeks ago as a proper leadership and direction, have an ex• judge for a regional contest. During the course perience of an exciting performance. Our soul• of the judging, we heard many groups of va• searching should relate to how good a job we ried sizes and varied quality. (I should note are doing many times in elaborate educational that as the years go on I find myself accepting plants with large budgets, sophisticated school very few invitations to judge for some of the systems, ·and so-called culture abounding obvious reasons that you all know.) But during around us. You and I alone can answer this the day there were two experiences that I should question and do a little soul-searching. We are like to share with you. One, was hearing the too prone to blame everything and everyone Zuni High School Mixed Chorus sing Jon except ourselves. But I look back to the above Waselu by Leontovich, Weep 0 Mine Eyes two examples of exciting music making and by John Bennet, and Innocence by Carr-Law• think again what can be done by small schools son. Here was a group of 60 or . so singers with low budgets and the same .problems which consisting of, I suppose, 98 percent descendants many of us have. The answer comes to me of this proud Indian nation, the Zunis. As you from a rather abrupt expression that a football know, the three numbers are rather difficult coach had, under whom I played in college. and varied in style, but I must say that they His comment when the going was tough was were performed very well. These youngsters to say to a player who was not doing well, understood the style and the quality as well as "remember that guy that's licking you puts on the meaning of the words. I do not mean to his pants the same way you do, one leg at a indicate that these young men and women are time." I think we should remember this too different than anyone else. Rather, the quality from time to time. of their performance pointed out the fact that music and musical expression is a universal language. Here was a group of boys and girls who live on a reservation, as I understand it. APRIL-MAY 1964 7 t1/.1t0Ht Ute ------.. AtDA Convention Reviewed Secretary.. Treasurer's What was the ACDA Convention? the St. Kilian Boychoir who stole their ._ :l)e,d,k It is amazingly difficult to state in simple hearts. terms, for any convention is all things to While it is impossible to satisfy every• The current issue of The Choral all people. To your editor, it was a pleas- one attending such a meeting, the gener• Journal is being delivered to the member• ant nightmare, a kaleidescopic movement al concensus of opinion so far as we ship and to subscribers somewhat behind of events and personalities all crowded could gather was a plea for more than schedule. Our dedicated and hard-work• into two short days that found us hear- two reading sessions (all Associate A ing Editor, Wayne Hugoboom, has been ing parts of programs and speeches and members were represented in the music delayed in his work by the Secretary• spending the remainder of the time talk- used), much more time be devoted to ac• T reasurer and by circumstances beyond ing with officers, chairmen, guests, old tual demonstrations of all types of choral his control. Yours truly was away from friends, and meeting new members and techniques, a move to organize an ACDA his desk during the month of March due interested people who were in attendance. Chorus to rehearse and sing at our next to illness and Mrs. Wand a McSpadden, To those of you who may have requested National Convention, and to continue to his secretary, was unavoidably absent information or action, we beg indulgence seek out top performing groups for both from the first week in March to April if we are delayed in responding. If you demonstration and concert. 22. ·Both are back on the job now and will refresh our memory we shall try We were especially touched by the it is hoped that we will get caught up during the coming months to bring order warm and sincere greetings extended to soon on the big_wg_r_k_l_o_a.d_that_f_ac_eLus. out of those two chaotic day__s. _ . ~A~C~D~AMENC~by President Alex Zim- You will read a review of the conven• There will be special reports in this merman, Executive Secretary Vanett ticn elsewhere in this 'issue. Many reports and the following issue of The Choral Lawler, MIC President Nilo Hovey, and have come to my desk telling of the won• Journal to be certain that we have missed MPA President Bernard Kohn. Lack of derful su~cess of the convention. Don noone in giving credit for the tremendous recording facilities hinders our bringing Razey, Convention Chairman, and his amount of work that went into preparing you their exact words, but each of the committee, and, indeed, all who contrib• and presenting the Convention. Our hats four speakers evinced a genuine interest uted to the program are to be commend• are off to Don H. Razey for a tremen- in and a spirit of cooperation with our ed. It was a job very well done. It was dous job as Convention Chairman, and organization that made us proud of being certainly a disappointment for me to to all those whose efforts helped to make a member of both ACDA and MENC have to be absent. the convention a success. The choirs were and so closely affiliated with MP A and A big job of reorganization faces the all beautifully trained, with special men- MIC activities. officers and board of our association. tion going to the U. of Texas Madrigal With so short a time as two days, it The Revisions of the "Constitution and Singers with Morris ]. Beachey, to the was impossible to talk with any one of Bylaws" published in the January issue Singing City Choir with Elaine Brown, you for 'any length and we sincerely hope were further changed to a slight degree to the Manhattan Chorus with Hugh you will follow up these brief meetings and voted into "law" by the members Ross, and to the multiple choirs at the via. the postal system and help us main• at the convention. All. members are urged final concert. The fine precision and tain these lines of communication that to read the Revisions in the J anuar}i is• thorough training of both the North Da- are open between all ACDA members. we. The additional changes to be pub• kota and the Germantown choirs de- Yes, the Convention was a success and lished in the [une-] uly issue should also lighted the convention goers as did the we now look forward to seeing many of be read by ever}) member. Baltimore City College High School you at Divisional meetings the coming The following important items of bus-· boys and Cranford girls, but it was year and at our next National in. 1966. mess are called to your attention: With the highlight past, we must all join for the 1964-66 biennium. 1. Helen Hosmer, Second Vice Pres• efforts now to work and help ACDA In closing I should like to take this ident ( 1962-1964) has kindly consented grow with at least the same rate of speed opportunity to thank the many members to continue the work of this office until it has grown the past two years. To those of ACDA who sent me greetings and Harold 'Decker returns from Europe in who attended the convention we hope the good wishes during my illness. One "get September. torch was lighted for increased ACDA well'' card alone, mailed from the con• activity; to those of you who were un• 2. State Chairmen in states of less vention, contained 1 36 signatures and a able to attend, we hope these brief than twenty members are now m process "gesundheit" in the handwriting of our glimpses will help to quicken your inter• of appointment. good friend, Bob Schmitt! est and . activity at the state level to help 3. State Chairmen in states of twenty And last, but certainly not least im• us reach the goal to which our potential or more members are being elected by the portant of the thanks I want to extend is clearly pointing. members within their states. to you is my appreciation for the confi• We shall welcome letters, comments, 4. It is hoped that an announcement dence that you have expressed by electing articles, etc., from any attending the con• can be made in the June-July issue of me to the presidency of ACDA for vention to help us bring our members a The Journal concerning all state chair• 1964-1966. I shall do my best to be broader picture of the entire proceedings. men and persons appointed to committees worthy of the honor bestowed upon me. -Continued on page 1 2 8 THE CHORAL JOURNAL of motivation exists in connection with our select performing groups as well. One wonders whether public perform• ance ·as such is sufficient motivation, or Luther Goodhart · the proper motivation, for achieving the results we should seek to achieve. Each has at some time or another felt that he Pr-esent.ed at ACDA Convention. Philadelphia, March 12 was so bogged down in "getting ready" for a program that he couldn't teach "The time has come," the Walrus tivity, critical investigation, movement -r-r• music or, if you prefer, teach boys and said, "to speak of many things." And, movement toward, and in, areas and dis• girls! like the character in Lewis Carroll's de• ciplines hitherto unfamiliar or unknown I feel very strongly about this latter lightful story, Alice in Wonderland, we to us. That discoveries in many areas point. We shall, during the ensuing days, too should like to speak of many things, other than the geographical and scienti• witness many excellent demonstrations of though cabbages and kings are not among fic are being sought and made is evi• music-making. And, admirable as these them. denced by but a cursory review of the will be, one can only hope that they rep• To select a suitable topic for the pur• literature.· Witness, if you will, the fol• resent, and are demonstrative of, much pose of addressing such a distinguished lowing titles: more than the .auditor can possibly assess. body of music educators, and at this Each of us has participated in and a. Discovering design through drawing juncture, was not an easy matter. A thrilled to stupendous and never-to-be• b. Discovering drama solution was arrived at when Wayne forgotten musical spectacles at conven• c. Discovering poetry lowered the H-boom ~ apologies to tions and elsewhere only to find after• d. Discovering music Clancy; and no explosive report intended! wards that the lack of self-motivation on e. Discovering Jesus - and suggested the topic that appears the part of the performers still persists, and, finally, there is Edward Adam on your program, namely; THE JOY the lack of musical discrimination and Strecker's book entitled "Discovering OF DISCOVERY. intelligence remains conspicuous and, re• Ourselves." Here, . perhaps, is the clue to Although a topic of limitless scope, ~rettably, reading and performing skills a never-ending search that must . accom• and one of but four words, this hypo• are not markedly advanced. pany all discoveries if we, and those thesis at· once proved interesting, arrest• True, we have much reason in our whom we . would teach, are to experience ing and highly fascinating; not alone be• country to point with pride to quality of recurring joy, the' emotion excited by the cause of pedagogical implications but performance' and to· the countless· boys acquisition and/ or expectation of good! rather because of the two principal words · and girls who sing and play while in it comprises; Note their order: grammat• And now you ask, "What are some school. The number of those who sing ical construction demands that the three• of the areas which await the explorer, and play while in school is not enough, letter word joy, a resultant, though at the discoverer, in music education?" I however. We 'must explore with greater times transieent, whose full meaning is assure. you they are not completely un• energy and increased determination means unfathomable, precedes the action or cas• known to you, for though many have for decreasing the numbers of those boys ventured before you, many are courses ual term and thus points up a most de• and girls who do not sing and play while sirable concomitant and outcome of that remain to be charted. in school. And, equally important, we teaching and learning and, hence, a po• Most important, it seems to me, is the must discover means for shaping or re• tent motivating force for both teacher constant need for discovering new, old, shaping our instruction so as to effect, if and student. better and, at times different techniques at all possible, increased performance With respect to the second of these for motivating our instruction. Each of us during the years following high school terms, namely, discovery, let it be stated recognizes the tendency to allow our graduation. here that our brief discussion is not one teaching to degenerate into a series of This is just another way of indicating dealing with a teaching method or tech• rarely-changing routines. In this connec• a condition or situation familiar to you, nique, or the logic of discovery. Rather, tion, it occurs to me that we should per• a status that has for a long time re• we shall think of the term in its broadest haps explore more fully the increased mained unaltered. This plight, neverthe• peerceptual sense: to detect; to disclose; use of personnel resources both in the less, should not go on unchallenged. More to find; to find out. We discover what school and the community in conjunction succinctly stated: that our problems are has (perhaps) existed but has not been with our regularly scheduled instructional not new is little reason for reassurance · known to us. classes and assemblies. More specifically, or apathy, that they persist should be We assume that, as dedicated teach• I am thinking of faculty resources, par• our concern. ers, ever desirous of increasing our com• ents, professional performers and instruc• I would like to relate an incident petence, we derive joy in rethinking, in tors and, in fact, any combination of which occurred, and was recorded, more reevaluating, in establishing new goals or these. It is unthinkable that a course than three hundred years ago in Eng• destinations and, consequently, in blazing of study need be so rigidly followed as land. We are told that at Oxford Uni• new trails which will insure pleasant tra• to preclude the use of resources not pre• versity in 1626 there was appointed a vel and hopeful arrival. scribed in the official syllabus. Choragus (the name originally applied And so our topic rs one denoting ac- The need for discovering new methods to the choral director in ancient Greek Al'RIL-l\lAY J!i64 The Joy of Discovery --- student performers are capable of relat• The music editor added the following ing and exhibiting all these, they demon• comment: strate too little evidence of accurate in• "This, we might observe in conclu• drama) to give instruction in the theory tonation or of "what a good tone should sion, is what singing is for - the pro• of music and "superintend its practice." sound like." Like the artist, the perform• viding of a sense of real communication The success of this academic appoint• er must be directed to "see" his subject between the music sung and the a~dience. ment, made by a Dr. Heyther, also the at the beginning as a unified form. Unless the singers give this, there is little benefactor, can be judged by the fol• Now it follows that we should seek to use in preparing programs and gathering lowing quotation attributed to him: discover means for enabling and encour• audiences to hear them." "If no one shall attend the meetings aging our classes and performing groups The late David Bispham, eminent bar• in the Music School, then the Choragus to critically evaluate their efforts. It is itone of the Metropolitan Opera Asso• himself shall sing with two boys for at conceivable that the discovery .of such ciation remarked, with respect to song least an hour." means will not be fully made until our literature that, lying on the publishers' Choral conductors in England are to• students are afforded greater opportunity shelves throughout the country are day plagued with continuing musical il• in• and, in fact, charged with greater re• numerable gems, unknown or· seldom per• literacy, according to the author of a sponsibility for assisting in the planning formed; the same might be stated of sight singing text which no doubt has of lessons, projects, programs, selection of choral literature. Should we not extend recently come to your attention; I refer uniforms, and the stuff that really mat• our search for literature which will con• to a text entitled, Five Minutes Weekly, ters. Contrast the potential values of tribute to a broader and more vital mu• presumably a jet ( ! ) method. The au• such cooperative efforts in terms of at• sical experience for the students and au- thor in his preface writes as follows: titude_with_those_r_es_ulting_from menial diences who participate in our choral [>er- _ "One of the most remarkable features tasks as moving of chairs or mending of formances? Certainly there is no more of social and musical life during this cen• music, however important those might be. practical research in which the music tury has been the development of choral The evaluatory process and its suc• educator can engage with the resulting singing in such movements as the W o• cess obviously presuppose the establishing Joy of Discovery assured and shared men's Institutes, Townswomen' s Guilds, of criteria by teacher and students - with and by so many! and similar organizations. In spite of agreed to and clearly understood by all It will be noted that, in pointing to this, however, little advance seems to concerned. Every means should be - ex• the discoverer, we at times have turned have been made in the all-important prob• plored to create within the students a from the educator to the student - from lem of reading music and, in spite of the feeling of pride in achievement and indi• the teacher to the learner ; it is indisput• ever-increasing attention which is being vidual responsibility for group success. able that The Joy of Discovery experi• given to music generally in schools, choral In this manner we are taking steps to re• enced· by one will be shared by both. singers for the most part remain musical• lease the creative and recreative power Certainly the student will not be caught ly illiterate and unable to sing even the inherent i11 our performers and, in so do• up m a whirlwind of devotion and en• simplest song at first sight. Even in im• ing, are evoking the joy and eliciting the thusiasm if there is no generator of au portant music festivals few competitors interest that are so necessary if music is currents! have the courage to attempt a simple to have the communicative force we claim Yes, we need creative teachers - sight test, and the mere mention of such for it. teachers who are sufficiently resourceful a thing is still frequently an occasion for I am reminded of the comments of and inventive to seek out - and I re• mirth." two New York critics that appeared in peat - to seek out new and better ways The fact that Five Minutes W eelel:Y the press several years past following ex• of arousing, maintaining, and fostering is, presumably, a plan designed to rem• cellent performances by two visiting col• interest and obtaining wider and more edy, if not remove, the dire condition of lege choirs. In the first instance, the critic enthusiastic participation of all students. musical illiteracy in England should give stated, following his critique, that: Dr. Kelley of Wayne University, on each of us heart! " .... for most college choral groups commenting upon the word creative, has• .... but to return to additional areas the notion that their work has anything tens to point out that the term does not in need of exploration and discovery: to do with 'glee' is an anachronism ill• necessarily mean painting a picture or There is need to explore and to dis• suited to the Wagner and the Villa• writing a symphony. "Creativity occurs," cover more effective means for enabling Lobos, the Palestrina and the Prokovieff he states, "whenever a person contrives a and encouraging students to exercise crit• that are drilled into them and some• new way out of a unique dilemma." ical self-evaluation; this is particularly times drawn out." The responsibility of teachers - all true with respect to pitch and tonal con• In the second instance, the critic noted teachers - has never been greater than cepts in both individual and group prac• that: it is today. And the fact. that our stu• tice and performance. A knowledge of "The musical amenities were observed dents find .as sources of information, and .. correct" embouchure, "correct" breath• with an ease and a perfection rare in learning, and appreciation, so many ar• ing pattern, "proper" posture, "correct" choral bodies. They sang with devotion, eas outside the classroom, almost to the position of head, chin, fingers, elbows, too, as if the sacred text meant deep and exclusion of the home, has immeasurably etc., is indispensable to the performer, grand things to them and as if caring for increased rather than diminished our res• but it is merely preparatory to production. Bach's melodious musical beauties were ponsibility. We are thus confronted with All too frequently we find that, while a privilege." the need for teachers who not only rec- 10 THE CHORAL JOURNAL Predidenl -91nig'd Convenlion _A-Jdre&& Presented at the 1 :30 General Session, Wednesday, March 11 Eom Shakespeare and Twelfth leader in choral music in our country. ident, have had a glorious and exciting Night: "Not old enough for a man, nor Who can guess or even foretell the pos• time. Our membership, our magazine, young enough for a boy," I take this sible and now implausible events that we our state organizations, our divisional or• theme for this brief address to you in may lead to in the development of choral ganizations, have all shown great growth this meeting gathered where we repre• literature, composition in choral music, and development. This has been at con• sent a boy with the wealth and love of research in the field and general promo• siderable sacrifice and interest by the older ideals. Ours, in ACDA; is a heri• tion of the art that is now. a boy with the officers and individuals concerned. Our tage of many hundreds of years but endowment of ages behind him. programs on these two days show the strangely enough coming to some fruition Youth is not an easy time of life for worth and dedication that has been as• with the innocence of a boy. Ours has either the young man or his elders. You cribed by the persons concerned with been a short but vibrant and stimulating who are more aware of this know whereof these duties also. I take great pleasure life to us and I foresee a life of amazing I speak. But youth has the blessing of and pride in proffering my thanks to development and great portent for. the being able to make creative mistakes. these people. They are the salt which future. Ours, I hope, have been mistakes of gives the meal you are enjoying a tang We who met but a few years ago to creativity and energy and not of sloth. and a zest which comes from high ideals, organize with a modest and searching If so, it has not happened without the but more than that from a belief and group of 40 or 50 have now grown - energy and ideas of dedicated people. dedication to the furtherance of our art. grown to a manhood of growth, but an We have far to move and I would To turn to the man from the · boy, infancy of realization. Stunning and sig• not be presumptuous enough to define may I call your attention to a problem nificant things have occurred in this or• plans of growth nor programs at this which I believe will point up one need ganization. Two years ago a membership time in my administrative career in we all must be concerned with at this of about 500, now a fellowship of about ACDA. But may I say to you that our time. I quote from the First Progress Re• 1500, and how many in ten years is development and growth cannot be port of the Committee on Government anyone's guess. Your leadership has been halted nor even hindered if we continue Research of the House of Representa• our inspiration and a prognosis for a fu• to receive the support we have from you, tives 88th Congressional Session - Feb• ture that will be most exciting. The the membership, and the dedicated peo• ruarv 1 7. 1964: younger women and men in our field of ple who are working so hard to light a "Additional funds requested for re• endeavor will long remember and con• path for our future. search and development in the coming tinue an organization which will be· a In the past two years, I, as your pres- fiscal year are less than $I billion, the lowest annual increase in recent years. with music "is better than nothing." In Nonetheless, the 1965 Federal budget The Joy of Discovery --- certain types of medical research such a proposes an expenditure for research and degree. of advancement might be regard• development larger than that ·for any cgnize the almost insuperable task that ed as momentous; in music education it is other single category of goods or ser• confronts them, but who because of this preposterous and inconceivable! So it is vices to be purchased. Research and de• awareness, and in spite of past successes, not the satisfaction that .might be experi• velopment continues to be, therefore, t1 are seeking all available means to equip enced by the student in learning some larger item in the aggregate than the ap• themselves for meeting the challenge. interesting fact or facts about, or related propriation for any single Federal de• Except as we establish, or reestablish, to music, but rather the deep inner joy partment or agency except the Depart• The Joy of Discovery in all phases of that comes to him on discovering that the ment of Defense. our work, arid on all levels, and for all newly acquired bit of knowledge or skill The research and development expen• students, each in turn: the beginning stu• is indeed a valuable and usable tool in ditures estimated in the new budget are dent, the average as well as the musical• the art of musicmaking and, hence, 'a nearly seven times greater than those for ly-gifted student, we are apt to delude means for experiencing further musical the conduct of our foreign policy, in• ourselves into thinking that, for our stu• adventure and THE JOY OF DIS• cluding foreign aid. They are about dents, any knowledge of and contact COVERY. e triple the amount estimated for all vet- APRIL-MAY 1964 11 President Imig's By fiscal 1962, institutions of higher St. Kilian Boychoir learning received $613.1 million from the Federal Government for basic re- Scores Hit at Convention erans' benefits and services, or for all search alone, according to the report2 of the agricultural programs of the Federal the Special Subcommittee on Education Introduced by Clyde R. Dengler, Government. They are about 50 percent of the House Committee on Education Chairman of Upper Darby, Pa., the St. greater than the total of all Federal fi- and Labor, under the chairmanship of Kilian Boychoir proved to be one of nancial assistance to state and local gov- Representative Edith Green. Most of the highlights of the ACDA Convention ernments. both · in demonstration and performance. t h ese funds have gone to a comparatively But perhaps the most significant thing small number of institutions." The Choir from Farmingdale, N · Y., that can be said about these figures is Now to continue, if we in the arts and and its director, Arpad Darazs, who was that, isolated, the]) are misleading. At humanities are to meet the program that a student of Zoltan Kodaly and a well- best, they may be educated estimates and is now necessary and vital in all fields of known conductor in Hungary prior to generalizations. To make an accurate education we must have some sort of coming to this country, proved that such comparison between today's level of sup- added nurture. We of course have . had a group can sing with. a free, unrestrained port and that of former years, for ex- aid from the great foundations _ wit- tone throughout its voice range to prove ample, one must consider not only the ness the assistance given to us by the itself as one of the outstanding boychoirs changes in dollar values but also the Ford Foundation; but if we are to meet in the country today. N~t only did . this changes in the Federal agencies' defini- these needs we must establish a program free)~ emitted .tone keep from hardening tions. These definitions now include, as of future research and development. at higher dynamic levels but served the ---·!'esearch-and-development,--many-items-Ma-rk-this-weH,-Lam-noLad_v:ocating.-:.a __b~~s to .show excellence )n pitch recog- an d projects· w hi ic h m· f ormer times· may federal subsidy · of the aforementioned. · mtion · · have been found and funded in other ad- magnitude, but I am advocating research . A demonstration of interval recogni- ministrative categories. to find assistance to our problems - be non through the use of hand signals by For one thing, the figures ordinarily they government administered or private. Direct9r Darazs and his singers paved the used do not distinguish between the ac- I speak to you who today have the basic way. for 'a different approach to sight tual conduct of research and development problem of the time allocation in your readmg and ear . training, with various and the agencies' administrative support; own public schools and the press of the signals denoting diatonic and chromatic hence, the entire budget of NASA, near- so-called "solids." What is more "solid" degrees of the scale. The system of hand ly $5 billion in fiscal year 1964, is con- than the performance of a Bach cantata signals used by Mr. Darazs is explained sidered as research and development." as a part and parcel of a young man's in a text published by, N. A. Kjos Music May I now skip to a later paragraph: or woman's life in the . life of the 30- Co. Rhythmic patterns were discovered "In 1939, about $500 million was ex- hour week? This is a matter of concern, through vario.~s signs written on the black- pended for research and development by but it is a matter for us who know it board to jndicate note and rest values. industry, the universities, foundations, and can research it. No one will help A. brief concert by the Boychoir fol- and the ·federal Government, of which us but ourselves and we must be the lowed the demonstration and the recep- the Federal share was but some 1 5 per- leaders to the search and realization of tive audience heartily applauded the fine cent. Now, the Federal Government per- research and truth. I hope that our pro- work of these young boys who are being forms or finances more than two-thirds grams, and I feel they must, will foster trained .to sing with both heart and mind. of the research and development effort the research and studies that will help tis Due to illness of some of the older mern• in the United States, insofar as this ac- to solve many of the issues that are our bers of the group, Director Darazs al- tivity can be measured by expenditures. greatest test today. lowed some. of the li~st year students to In 195 3, private industry expended $4.3 I promised to be brief, and I will, but join the group and one . of the tiniest in billion for research and development, of I cannot conclude without again calling the group not only "stole the show" but which 60 percent was derived from cor- to your minds the idea of the man and the hearts of the audience as well. porate funds. Today, industry's annual the boy of Shakespeare. We are now out The Choral Journal plans to carry an outlays for research and development to- of infancy. We have eyes, minds, ears article in the near future by Mr. Darazs ta! $1 3 billion, of which 60 percent is and hearts to do with in our work. We which will help better to tell of the sue- derived from the Federal Government. have the spirit and the dedication of peo- c.ess in the use of 'hand signals to train While industry's research and develop- pie who are searching. Will you do your early reading and listening' skills. 8 ment expenditures doubled in this period, part, and will I do mine, to make the those of the Federal Government were young man a man of vision and vigor - ACDA Convention --- multiplied by 4% times. of worth and quality - of future and -Continued from poge 8 Although smaller in magnitude, re• vision - of eagerness and life - but To those attending, we were delighted to search and development expenditures in most of all a young man who may con• either meet you for the first time or to the field of higher education may have tribute to this world of ours a light and see you again. To those unable to be had a greater impact than those in in• message of truth and inspiration? @ with us, we are still looking forward to dustry. In 1940, the Federal Govern• meeting you all in ACDA fellowship. ment expended only about $1 5 million Z"The Federal Government and Edu• Why not start planning now to take an cation," H. Doc. 159, 88th Cong., 1st for research in colleges and universities. sess., September 1963. active part in our coming conventions? 4t 12 THE CHORAL JOURNAL or CHO L for the C u H Wayne Barlow Er from being a matter of ab• be searching constantly for new material, stract interest; the question of what con• both old and new. A stagnant library is stitutes good, appropriate, and useful a token of mental laziness. music for the church choir is being an• As a composer, I am often asked my swered hundreds of times a day. It is views about the appropriateness of vari• answered, at least to the choir director's ous kinds of music for use in the wor• satisfaction, each time he places an order ship service. I am just as often tempted for anthems or service music. Assuming to remark that, ideally, there should be Heinrich-Tamara 'Btudloa that he can find· the type of music that no distinction between music within and many, if not all, of the characteristics of he is looking for - and the available without the church. For a considerable the serious music with which it was con• publications pretty well run the gamut period of time in the history of music, of temporaneous. On the other hand, jazz from bad to good - his selections in• course, this was literally true. The dis• as we know it very quickly acquired evitably reflect his concept of what sort parity in style between sacred and secular traits that set it apart from 'the main of music belongs in church. So the ques• music, if one can be said to exist, came stream of serious music, and it remains a tion has as many answers, in a sense, as about as the "culture lag" between com• very special kind of functional music with there are choir directors. Yet the question posers and listeners gradually widened in the most primitive kind of appeal that is invites serious thought, and I am grateful the post-romantic and contemporary pe• an affront to many - I am tempted to for this opportunity to offer my own riods. The increasing dissonance content say most - members of congregations views. of music, · its growing rhythmic complex• that are asked to accept a jazz idiom as Every so often I am brought up short ity, and above all the progressive weak• expressive of the highest aspirations of by the impact of the words in the sum• ening of tonality, have outdistanced the man. mary of the law found in the communion understanding of a fair proportion of If the service music and anthems of service (I play and direct in an Episco• serious listeners, and it is obvious, too, the church are to be consonant with its pal church) : "Thou shalt love the Lord that from the standpoint of practicality, hymns, a predominantly diatonic approach thy God with all thy heart, and with all these are the very factors that tend. to to choir music is clearly in order. Let me thy soul, and with .all thy mind .... " place contemporary music beyond the hasten to add, however, that if this con• To me this is a clear direction to go be• reach of any but the most capable choirs. veys the thought of having nothing to yond the shallow emotionalism that so It is no wonder that what one hears in sing but music in the key of C with triad• often passes for sacred music and to seek the churches bears little relation to the ic harmony, nothing could be farther out music that reflects, in words and contemporary music of the concert hall. from the truth. There are good reasons; sound, a well-ordered and intelligent ap• I suspect that some choir directors de• to begin with, why diatonic music is ap• proach to the problem of providing music velop inferiority complexes as a result of propriate to the church, other than mere for the church. This means texts that this situation, and out of sheer frustra• consistency with hymns. The diatonic will stand scrutiny (there is a great deal tion throw their choirs and congregations system arises from the most fundamental of good sense in adhering to the hymn into a state of consternation by attempt• of acoustical relationships, and the pri• book, the prayer book, or the Bible), ing works far beyond the comprehension mordial origins of diatonic music account and music that betrays an understanding and tolerance of both, or by going · out for the basic strength that this music has. of part writing, of counterpoint, of mel• and hiring a saxophonist and a drummer I use the term "strength" advisedly, be• odic writing, of harmonic progression, and putting on a jazz mass. At the risk cause I feel that this is the most vital and principles of good craftmanship gen• of being considered a traitor to the cause characteristic of the diatonic system and erally. I cannot stress too strongly my be• of modern music, I submit that both should also characterize the music of the lief that this requirement places upon all courses of action are ill conceived, the church. choir directors the obligation ·to become first for reasons already given, and the To repeat, what is so often overlooked as knowledgeable as possible about these second for the reason that jazz, in my by composers is the fact that diatonicism and all other facets of choral music, for view, is not the "language of the people" encompasses much more than seven-note herein lies the foundation of good musi• that it is supposed to be. Dance· music major scales and tertian harmony. Quar• cal taste. There is another obligation, has always existed, it is true, but up to tal and quintal harmonic structures, as too; this is the necessity for directors to the beginnings of modern jazz it shared well as a wide variety of other types, are APRIL-1\IAY 1964 IS Of Choral Music --- University of Texas. "Come-Alive" .Singing perfectly. at home, and there is no system Madrigal Singers Score By Mark Troxell in which complex contrapuntal activity I am a book. My name is HYMNAL. comes off better. There is also no system Last name HYMNAL. Not Joe Hym- in which dissonance as a harmonic or Following greetings by MENC, MIC, rial or Jane Hymnal. No first name. linear property is so quickly and easily and MPA officials on Wednesday af- Just family of Hymnal. Wish I did have understood by singers and is therefore as lernoon at 3 :50, the University of Texas a first name. We are very different effective. Composers have not yet ex- Madrigal Singers presented a varied con- from each other. Some of us are useful. hausted the possibilities within the seven- cert of Madrigal works which delighted active, and vibrant. Others are dormant, note diatonic scale, and there remains a the audience with their charming and placid, and useless. Just like people. We whole world of experience withiri the musical presentation. The group was need people. various expansions to eight notes and be- beautifully balanced and sang with a On Sundays - our BIG day - some yond. If it is recalled that the entire warmth of understanding that demon- folks leave us in the rack to remain life- modal system is contained within the strated the art of ensemble singing at less, while others breathe life and mean- seven-note diatonic framework, one can its best. ing into our notes and words. Sometimes begin to appreciate something of the .pos- Opening with John Farmer's Fai, Elder Tacit stands in front of me, but sibilities that are opened up by the. ap- Phyllis, the group presented John Ben- leaves me sadly closed and unwanted. plication of the modal principle to ex- net's O Sleep, Fond F anc,Y and Thomas He never mutters a word. Next to him, ---panded-diatonic-,scales.-(-By-expanded-Vautoh-Mother-/-W-ilL-Have-a-Hus--·Eldar-1'.roll-makes-my-eousin-Hymnal-• diatoriicism is meant the scales resulting band from the English madrigal school. feel needed and a part of the worship from the projection of the perfect fifth Moving to the Italian group, two selec- service by singing God's praise with a beyond seven notes, e.g., F-C-G-D-A- tionsbydiLassoMaiona,LovelyA1aiden strong, full voice! My, how warm and E-B-F sharp.) , . and Olaf o che bon eccho ! were sepa- happy it makes me feel at Christmas to A good place to begin the exploration rated by the Gesualdo's Ilene o rmei have someone wake me· and rejuvenate of unfamiliar diatonic music is the hym- sospirir and Ecco moriro dunque. me with joyful singing! It tickles my nal itself. I am always rather appalled From the French school the group appendix pink! Those great words and at the resistance of congregations to presented the tender Mon coeur se re- melodies warm the very cockles of my change, and by the pitifully small num- commande a vous by di Lasso, and index. ber of hymns sung by many congrega- Claude le jeune's Within Our Arbor Last Sunday I overheard a lady com• tions in the course of a church year. The Green in May. Following works by ment to her neighbor about using some practice of introducing new (in the sense Hassler and Senfl, tenor· Frank Stovall "Come-Alive" hair shampoo. Huh! I of unfamiliar) and effective hymns as and soprano Diane Tobola were fea- wish she would use "Come-Alive" sing• anthems by the choir is to be commended, lured in solos with lute accompaniment, ing on me! This could catch on so and can be followed up by their inclus- and a quartet presented Peerson's Sing, tremendously that my whole family of ion in the service for congregational sing- Love is Blind. HYMNALS would "come-alive" with ing within the next Sunday or two. I feel In the contemporary field were Bar- contagious singing. strongly that it is equally as intolerable ber's Let Down the Bars, O Death, If all my HYMNAL cousins were for a congregation never to learn a new Britten's A Boy Was Born, Halsey used and made to feel "wanted" by our hymn as for a choir never to sing a new Stevens' Lilce as the Culver, and the church folk, the rafters would literally anthem. Chavez Arbolucu, le sequesie. The Sing- rock with joyful singing. The great mel- Another source of new and sometimes ers closed their program with the first odies of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, exciting music is the increasing number of and last of the Debussy T rois Chansons: and the immortal words of Luther, Cal• unison and two-part settings of the com- Dieu ! qu' il la fail ban regaider ! and vin, and Tennyson would then be un• munion service. There is no valid reason Yver, vous n' estes qu' un villain. locked from my pages and made to why the Episcopal church should hold a Organizer and director of the group "come-alive". When this permeates the monopoly on this type of music, as so is Morris J. Beachy, director of Choral hearts and voices of all our people, then often seems to be the case, and I com- Organizations at the University of Tex- will we "Praise the Lord with a Joy- mend to other churches the use of indi- as. e ful Noise!" vidual movements from these services as anthems. I have the feeling that many choir directors tend to look down upon returning to a point made earlier, to wit, of the wheat from the chaff is a time• singing in anything less than four parts that the choir director, upon assuming consuming task. But I can think of no as somehow beneath them ! I think this the responsibility for the music in a more rewarding labor than the building is an unwarranted attitude, as anyone church, has a special and personal obli• of a really fine library: the reward is who has taken seriously the special chal• gation to search out the best music that paid each time the director and the choir lenge of blend in this type of music will he can find. There is an incredible cooperate in the singing in the worship readily agree. amount of second and third-rate anthem service of music truly worthy to be pre• I would conclude this discussion .by literature to be had, and the separating sented as an offering to God. 8 THE CHORAL JOURNAL ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Henry E. Busche is one of the charter mem• WHEN THE MEN CAME bers of the American Choral Direc• tors Association, and· is one .of the district representatives for Illinois. Henry E. Busche Dr. Busche bas been director of choral activities at MacMurray College for the past 18 years. He received his Doc• tor of Education from the University ~s is an account of the tran• of men. This attitude had been tradition• of Illinois. sition of a choral program in a college al throughout the history of the woman's t:m;;;:mff:g:gm::t'f!itrnt:t:r:,mm:''''''''rn:f:t:::::::;:::g:t:t:fnt::m:mii:tlf:tt:1 which opened its doors to men students college and its continuance was a fore• for the first time in 195 7, after 111 gone conclusion. They realized that the of this choir had been carefully routined years of being a college for women only. good students, without regard to sex.: are in appreciation of treble choral repertoire The choir at MacMurray College, drawn to music of lasting value and can and were reluctant to change. Alumna located in Jacksonville, Illinois, before be also a subject for concentration. As members of this choir pointed with pride 195 7 had acquired local fame for its this had been the successful procedure at the uniqueness of their experiences and good singing at the weekly chapel ser• in the development of the choral pro• the satisfaction they had received. The vices, the carefully rehearsed Christmas gram in the women's college, they saw choral director had devoted much of his and Easter vespers (traditionally sung on no need for the change in principle. Ex• study in search for the most suitable mu• the Sundays which preceded the respec• perienced members of the music faculty sic repertoire. The college had invested tive vacations), and as the musical rep• were already available, as well as neces• in a very large library of treble music. resentative of the college at its public sary funds for implementing the program. Would the women's choir continue to functions such as Dad's Day, Commence• It would be the objective to emphasize dominate the other choral groups in qual• ments and Baccalaureates. Later, as tra• the performance values of the music not ity? What would this do to the morale vel became easier, this choir toured the so much for the purpose of entertaining of the men in the choir? After all, is it midwestern states, appearing in numerous average audience but also for the richness not true that men are used to playing the churches, before state and national ser• of experience derived by the men from dominant role? How could a director vice clubs meetings, teachers institutes its study. Realistic implementation meant reach the talented men singers who might and other civic club gatherings. With the that the rehearsals involving the men's also have other campus interests such as advent of radio, invitations to appear on choirs were not to be merely recreation. debate, athletics, and science clubs? national hook-ups were received and ac• periods for the sole encouragement of Could the campus be convinced that the cepted. good fellowship in song, but a time for men's choir would be able to acquire the the careful study of the vocal problems Claims to fame for this choir were le• finesse already apparent in the women's gitimate, ones and the quality of singing which can be solved for the production groups? compared favorably with similar college of the beautiful and expressive qualities The music department decided that one groups. Members of the music faculty of the music. director should be appointed to conduct assumed the direction. Quality voices Putting this program into effect at both groups. Another dimension could were never lacking for members such as MacMurray presented the choral direc• and was added: The performance by the Sylvia Anerson's, the Laura Smith's, tor with some challenges. The women's members of both choirs music for the the Joan Drew's and the Linda Smith• choir had been established, enjoyed great mixed choirs. Rehearsals were scheduled ey's (the voice majors) were in ample prestige among both the men and women at a time convenient for both groups to numbers to influence the non-music ma• students of the campus. Senior members combine when needed. The men and jor members for high choral standards. The choir also enjoyed such peer pres• tige that fully half the student body au• ditioned for membership, Then, in 1957, the men arrived. Co• ordinate education became a reality at MacMurray College. Men and women used the same campus facilities and were instructed by the same faculty but formed separate student governments, published separate newspapers, and in cases where the administration considered it desirable, attended separate classes. The MacMurray administration felt strongly (even in the very first plans for a men's college) that opportunities in the study of the arts were of the greatest importance to the well rounded education APRIL-1\IAY 1964 15 When the Men --- AtDA Convention Hag Thrilling etoge women joined in the fall Choir Revue (a program of lighter selections based on The most thrilling event of the Con- parts as well as the masses of tone evoked some musical show). The men's choir vention was saved for the final evening from time to time by the use of several was challenged to match the excellent session on Thursday, Marth 12, when choirs at once. performances of the women's group as an audience of well over 1,000 attended The most thrilling and exciting work each shared appearances at the weekly the closing session at Irvine Auditorium of the evening was the Thomas Tallis chapel services. At the Christmas and on the University of Pennsylvania cam- Motet in Forty Parts, using eight five• Easter vespers, the two choirs featured pus. President Warner Imig introduced part choirs, with no parallel doubling of such mixed choral works as Bach's Mag- Luther Goodhart, Professor of Music parts to allow each part to live by itself. niiicai, Brahms' Requiem, Faure's Re- Education at New York University, as The intent of the work was a clockwise quiem, ·etc. The talented men singers such guest speaker for the evening and his and counter-clockwise passing of sound as Douglas Hatch and James Russell talk, "The Joy of Discovery." from choir to choir. Opening with the were encouraged to study voice with Jo- Robert Page, Temple University at choir at the conductor's far left in the seph C. Cleeland, head of the music de- Philadelphia, introduced the. concert per- balcony, the . sound moved impellingly partment. Men students, majoring in in- formances of the Germantown Friends through intervening choirs to the eighth strumental music, were encouraged to School Choir with Mary Emma Brewer choir at the conductor's far right. The join the choir. Tour programs included as conductor and Music for Multiple kaleidescopic shifting of tone from one both choirs ·as well as mixed choir music Choirs and Brass, conducted by Ralph group to another was followed by a mass ---from-the-two-groups-combined.--- Hun.ter,_guesLcQndJJ_ctQr,_oLNeJY Yor"'k"-.--'s=t=at,,,,e,,,m,,e,.,n"'"t--'o,,.,f,___,th=e_.,.,te,,_,x::Jt,.__'_'..,,B:c:uoo_t---"in,.,__-'T"-'h:::e:::.:e~,- This "revolution" in the program at The beautifully controlled German- God of Israel." which was followed by MacMurray had some difficulties. At town Friends Choir opened the evening a reversal of the original pattern. The first the greatest challenge was to es- concert program with works by Sweelinck, choirs were then paired: one and two tablish the attitude that rehearsals were Pac;:helbel, Persichetti, Debussy, and answered five and six; three and four not casual social gatherings for relaxed Hairston. Through the years this fine answered seven and eight. Finally with "barbershopping," but a time when chor- group has performed works of high cal- the words, "Look down on our lowli• al classics were studied and mastered. ibre including the Stravinsky S:ymphony ness," all choirs unite to complete the Slowly, but surely, regular attendances of Psalms, the Honegger Le Roi David, masterfully conceived and executed to rehearsals became a habit. The search and Bach's Cantata No. 65 and the score. for true high tenors is never ending here. M agnificat. Excellent preparation and The Br~ss Ensemble from Temple The development of good readers and well controlled performance gained the University, prepared by Larry Weed, an awareness to good tone and diction hearty applause of the audience. performed the Gabrielli Canzone Septimi among the less experienced men members Selected singers from the Temple Uni• Toni Nos. l and 2. The remainder of is a continuous problem. The resistance versity Choir, the Glassboro ( N. J, ) the program was devoted to the presen• on the part of some women members to State College Concert Choir, the Glass• tation of the Giovanelli Jubilate Deo, for accept the men in the choral plans on boro College-Community Chorale and two 4-part choirs with brass, the Bassano an equal basis had to be overcome. selected singers from southern New Jer• Cobavi! Nos ex Adipe Frumenti for two Today, in 1964, many of the original sey and greater. Philadelphia area choirs 4-part choirs, the Benevoli Agnus Dei objectives have been accomplished: A joined forces under the masterful direc• from the Missa Maria Prodigio Celeste solid nucleus of men who love to sing tion of Ralph Hunter to present a thril• for 4-part choirs with organ, and the and work on music which "stretches ling performance of works for multiple Gabrielli Jubilate Deo for 8-part choir them" has been found. Balanced- sections choirs by Tallis, Gabrielli, Giovanelli, with brass. are present this year but this could and Benevoli, Their very fine groups To allow the audience a second time change. Low altos need no longer help · "were prepared by Clarence W. Miller to hear and enjoy a work of its magni• the tenors in mixed selections. Rehearsals Jr., Director of Choral Music at Glass• tude, the choir and Mr. Hunter repeated have become times for serious study as boro State College and Robert ,Page of the Tallis Motet as the closing section on well as the enjoyment of working on Temple University. the program and a fitting climax to two good choral music. Both groups have A fitting climax to two days of de• days of exciting and concentrated choral respect for each other. Both seem .to en• monstrations, lectures, · reading sessions, actiivities. The choirs, Mr. Miller and joy the uniqueness of the choir plan in panels, and performances by groups from Mr. Page, and especially guest conductor, which opportunities are given for them to all over the country, the multiple choir Ralph Hunter, are to be congratulated perform separately and combined. Then, concert served to demonstrate and con• for their devotion and efforts in under• too, a great deal has to be said about firm Mr. Hunter's interest in works ·of taking, training, rehearsing, uniting, and the wonderful social advantages which such magnitude and to afford many of its performing works of such magnitude arid have become apparent as one views the hearers their first and perhaps only op• beauty for the convention and we are cer• romantic results which rehearsals and portunity to hear such a magnificent work tain that all ACDA members, whether tours have brought about. After all, the as the Tallis performed. Irvine Auditor• in attendance or not, will join us in of• Choir is bound to bring together those ium served admirably for the stereophonic fering our deepest gratitude for such a who have a common love for singing. 9 effect of the intricately woven choral gruelling yet gratifying undertaking. 9 16 THE CHORAL·JOURNAL Part of the ACDA convention goers begin the Thursday afternoon Reading Session while others still linger at the Kaffeldatsch for a SIT and little more conversation and coffee Southwest Iowa Choral Warner Lawson, Conducting Festival at Shenandoah SIGHT READ Praise the Lord (Psalm 150) - Lang• lais, TTB, 25c, McLaughlin & Reilly Co.; For the past 13 years the Concert Sightreading sessions at the Philadel• The Holy Infant's Lullaby - Delio Joio, Choir of Shenandoah High School has phia National Convention of the Amer• 25c, Edward B. Marks, Corp.; Blessed ican Choral Directors Association' were Be the Lord God of Sabbath - Genuchi, sponsored the Southwest Iowa Choral held both Wednesday and Thursday in 20c, Ludwig Music Pub. Co.; Gloria - Festival with the finest choirs in South• Bellevue Stratford Hotel Ballroom. Persichetti, 30c, Elkan Vogel Co., Inc.; John Raymond, Lafayette College, Eas• l\Iagnificat - Peeters, 60c, McLaughlin west Iowa invited to attend the festival ton, Pa., presided at the Wednesday ses• & Reilly Co.; Sentimental Journey - arr. and clinic. Among most recent guest con• sion, Sally Ann Eatough, Minister of Mu• Luboff, 25c, Edwin H. Morris & Co. sic, First Methodist Church, Moores• ductors who have served as clinicians and town, N. J., accompanying. directors have been Leland Sateran, Lee Kjelson, California State College, SESSION II Haywood, presided at the Thursday ses• MUSIC OF CLASSIC Augsburg College, and Daniel Moe, sion and accompanist was Richard D. COMPOSERS AND FOLKSONGS State University of Iowa. Guest con• Ringenwald, United Church of Christ, (SATE Unless Otherwise Specified) Glenside, Pa. ductor for ·this year was Marion V ree, John Held, Conducting Assistant Professor of Music at Pierce Ave Verum Corpus - Byrd, 25c, Galaxy SESSION I Music Corp.; We Seek Not; God Our College, Los Angeles, Calif. Director of CHORAL MUSIC OF ESTABLISHED Lord, For GlOI'Y - Haydn, 40c, Concordia the All-City High School Choir of Los CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pub. House; Fanfare for · Christmas - (SATE Unless OtJherwise Specified) Pfautsch, 25c, Harold Flammer, Inc.; Angeles Public School, she is also Pres• St. Hellen's Tune - Marlin Merrill, 30c, ident of the Southern California Junior Thel"OnKirk, Conducting Oxford University Press; Waltzing Mar College Music Association, and is cur• Simeon's Prayer - Cousins, 26c, Brodt tilda - Marie Cowan, 25c, C. Fischer, Inc. Music Co.; The Christ Theme - Rosza, rently working on a Ph. D. degree in 30c, The Big 3 Music Corp.; Silently They Paul Peterson, Conducting Musicology at USC. Arise - Davenport, TTBB, 25c, Hal Leon• Ca' The Yowes - Vaughan Williams, ard Music, Inc.; August Moon - Bright, 25c, G. Schirmer, Inc.; Good Night - The March 9 F es ti val program in• 25c, Shawnee Press; The Mercenary Malin, SSA, 25c, B. F. Wood Music Co.; cluded the Heinrich Schuetz Psalm 1 ; Echo - Gansz, ,sSAA, 25c, Shawnee Three Excerpts from "The Peasant Can• Press; Alleluia - Creston, 35c, Franco tata" - Bach, SA, 25c, Music Publishers Sing Praise to Cod, arr. Vree; Sing Un~ Colombo, Inc.; Holding Corp.; Golden Harvest "In to Cod, Fetler; Ain-a That Good News, Nature" - Dvorak, 35c, Theodore Presser Don Razey, Conducting Co., Inc.; Music Spread Thy Voice Dawson; M:y Spirit Sang All Day, Fin• Choose Something Like a Star - Ran• Around (Solomon) - Handel, 30c, Ed• zi: and the Geographical Fugue of Toch. dall Thompson, 45c, E. C. Bchirmer ; ward B. Marks Corp. · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve• The Shenandoah Concert Choir has a ning - _Randail Thompson, TBB, 40c, John Raymond, Conducting long tradition of fine choral music and E. C. Schirmer; Three Hungarian Folk• To Sprmg - Bach, 25c, Shapiro, Bern• songs - Bartok, 25c, Boosey & Hawkes, stein & Co., Inc.; There Is a Balm In this year sent more participants to State Inc.; Drop, Drop Slow Tears - Graham, Gilead - arr: Don Smith, 25c, Plymouth Music Festival than any other school in 26c, Canyon Press; Old King Cole - Bela• Music Co., Inc.; Keny Dance - arr. H. fonte, TTBB, 35c, G. Schirmer, Inc.; Allen Orsham, 30c, Pro Art Music Pub.; Iowa. The choir consistently receives Su• 0, Clap Your Hands - Vaughan, 40c, Farewell, My Love - Revised Don Craig, perior ratings in contest and is in constant Galaxy Music Corp. 25c, Plymouth; Pick a Bale of Cotton - M. Gardner, 25c, Staff. demand to perform for various functions Byron Greist, Conducting throughout the state. Director of the Song of Human Rights - Hanson, $1.00, Robert Mccowen, Conducting C. Fischer, Inc.; Psalm 98 - Robert Wea• Et in Terra Pax Hominibus (Gloria) group is William E. Aebersold, who has ver, 25c, Plymouth Music Co., Inc.; - Vivaldi, 30c, Franco Colombo; A Sigh a B.A. from Whitworth College and an Seeing We Also - Leo Howerby, 50c, Goes Stin·ing Through the Wood - M.M. degree from the University of Harry T. FitzSimons; Bailero - Canta• Brahms, 20c, Associated Music Publish• loube, 25c, Theodore Presser Co., Inc.; ers; We Do Worship Thee - Pitoni, 25c, Arizona. Bill has been the guiding force It is Good To Be Merry - Berger, 40c, Elkan-Vogel; Safe in Thy Hand - Bach, that inaugurated and continues to spon• Neil A. Kjos Co.; A Foggy Day - Gersh• 35c, Summy-Birchard; Teach Me, O win, 35c, Chappel & Co., Inc. Lord - Atwood, 20c, Willis. 9 sor the choral festival. ct APRIL - MAY 1964 17 Those responsible for the smooth operation of the North Carolina Choral Workshop are included in the accompanying picture. From left to right are Paul B. Fry, Workshop Registrar, who is ACDA Southern Division Chairman as well as N. C. State Chairman, and is President• E~ect of NCMEC; :(\'.[rs. J. R. Blackwell, Jr., President of NCMEC, W1orkshop Chairman, and ACDA member; Robert H. Ellis, Ch!aiirman of the NCMEC Choral Section, Head Counselor of the Workshop, and ACDA member; Lara Hoggard, Director of the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra and Chorale of l\Udland, Texas, .and Permanent Director of the Workshop; and Dr. ,Joel Carter, Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Ooordtnator of the ·workshop with the University Robert H. Ellis Chairman Choral Section NCMEC U.N.C. Photo Lab mately 350 students and directors, along with 20 on the staff. NORTH CAROLINA The workshop has attracted choral di• rectors and students from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and as far ~ u~rn,,e r CHORAL WORKSHOP away as Oklahoma. However, it has grown to a point that out-of-state student applications cannot be accepted, and in• Very few activities, endeavors, or pro• ing the summer of 1963, a long cherished state students are screened in order to se• jects in North Carolina have had such a dream of choral directors in North Caro• cure balance for the Workshop Chorus. profound influence on the quality of sing• lina came into being. The first workshop A set of happy circumstances, together ing and the musicianship of high school had as its Guest Director, Dr. Lara Hog• with much hard work, enthusiasm, sacri• students as has the North Carolina Sum• gard, now Conductor of the Midland• fice and dedication on the part of an ex• mer Choral Workshop, a project spon• Odessa Symphony Orchestra and Chor• ceptional musical director, a group of de• sored by the Choral Section of the North ale, Midland, Texas. Approximately one termined high school directors and their Carolina Music Educators Conference. hundred students and their directors were students, has over these eleven years There are also many other summer present for these first rehearsals of the led to what many educators have come choral opportunities for high schoor' stu• workshop. The workshop has been held to call a "unique" undertaking. The dents in North Carolina: workshops at in several different locations since the workshop has the distinction of being the several colleges, summer camps, the na• small beginning at Catawba College. It only known summer workshop actively tionally known Transylvania Music Camp has been held on the campus of Appala• sponsored by the state organization of at Brevard, North Carolina, and a new chian State Teachers Colege, Boone, choral directors, and is a non-profit or• camp begun last summer, the Governors North Carolina; Fort Caswell, the North ganization. School, which supports a symphony or• Carolina Assembly ground for the Bap• The singing of the Faure Requiem by chestra and chorus. However, none of tists; East Carolina College, Greenvile, the North Carolina Workshop Chorus as these musical activities have provided for North Carolina; and is now held on the a feature of the recent North Carolina such a nominal sum the fine musical op• campus of the University of North Caro• Music Educators Conference at the Uni• portunities with more statewide influence lina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, versity of North Carolina at Greensboro, than the Summer Choral Workshop. The where it is affiliated with the University North Carolina, in November, 1963, success of this venture is attributed to Music Department with Dr. Joel Carter was characterized by Dr.· Stanley Chap• the fact that a large number of high as Co-ordinator, and with the University ple, nationally known music director, now school students have taken the skills ac• Extension Department, of which Mr. Director of Symphony and Opera at the quired from a highly worthwhile work• James Steagall is the Co-ordinator. University of Washington, at Seattle, shop experience back to their choral Dr. Lara Hoggard, the first music di• Washington, as the finest singing by any groups at home. rector, is the key to the success of the high school choral groups he has ever When the first Summer Choral Work• Summer Choral Workshop, and now heard anywhere in the United States. shop was held on the campus of Catawba holds the position of Permanent Director. The North Carolina Summer Choral College, Salisbury, North Carolina, dur- The 1963 workshop numbered approxi- Workshop is set up as a summer camp, 18 THE CHORAL JOURNAL the main purpose or activity being the panist and a perfect balance 'between voices and piano which is demonstrated formulation of a workshop chorus. Stu• Record of the Month by Mark Osman. The Glee Club also dents are accompanied to the workshop shows its fine training in tlhe soft pas• sages where one hears a beautiful blend by their choral directors, and participate and balance of parts. The first tenors together in the rehearsals. Many students never seem to force their voices in the higher tessituras which is a common have returned six or eight times and have fault with glee clubs. Norse Lullaby by "grown up" in the workshop, returning Anthony C. Leo Sowerby is a fine work for a cap• Cappadonia pella voices and it demands a sensitive as college students, and later as counselors interpretation of music and text. The and then as teachers. Five teachers have State University glee club performs this unique work attended the workshop every year from of New York with beauty of tone and the pianissimo Alfred, N. Y. passages do not lose the vitalized tone its conception as has Dr. Hoggard, and necessary for this type of performance. many others have missed only a few. The rhythmic Stomp Your Foot by Copland and the novel Officer Krupke Workshop activities are available also to by Leonard Bernstein add variety to the church musicians, choral directors with• program. Dr. Woodbury concludes side University of Rochester Men's Glee out participating students, and college one with three very delightful French• Club and the Yellowjacket:S.Dr. Ward Canadian Folk Songs: V'la !'bon vent; students who intend to be choral direc• Woodbury, director. Kendall Recording La-bas, sur ces montagnes (with Clinton Co., Rochester, N. Y., Volume LV, LP tors. Atkins, soloist) and Les Raftsmen. 427. Monaural. Side Two presents the popular Yel• A daily schedule is set up to include The Glee Club and the Yellowjackets lowjackets, a select group of men sing• not only participation in six hours of re• are obviously well-trained; tlhey have ers who have travelled throughout the learned basic choral technique with an U. 1S. and Europe. Many colleges have hearsal, but also in social and recreational expert choral director and the music similar groups: the Paks of Holy Cross, activities as well. A highlight of each shows it. Directors who work with glee the Yale Alley Cats, the Colgate Thir• clubs know that it is difficult to achieve teen, the Cadet Quartet, the Miami Hur• year is a student talent show held in the a wide variety of tonal colors because ricanes, the Whiffenpoofs, this writer's Playmakers Theatre at which time the of limited ranges, a limited choice of own Kingsmen and many other equally good published music and the simple fine men's ensembles in college campus• directors let their hair down and produce fact that high-pitched tenors are a rare es. This writer shared a program with a production number as the last number species. Dr. Woodbury's 'group is one of the Yellowjackets at a college spr.ing the finest glee clubs this writer has week-end performance and was very on the program. There is also a visit to ever heard and they deserve much at• impressed by their program variety, the Morehead Planetorium, a "get ac• tention from ACDA members. stage presence and performance ability. quainted" party, a picnic supper, a wa• On side one, the Men's Glee Club .per• Some selections are especially arranged form Randall Thompson's Tarantella. for the group; others are available termelon cutting and the use of the Uni• This work requires a sensitive accom- through the rpubltahfng houses. This is versity recreational facilities. an entertaining group with a profession• al approach to singing and stage pres• A student council is organized which ence. They never fail to achieve imme• istrar is Mr. Paul Fry, Albermarle, North handles many of the details of the work• diate audience response - and it is al• Carolina, who is President Elect of the ways good. shop. This group is made up of elected North Carolina Music Educators Con• On this record you will .hear the Yel• students from various schools and they lowjackets sing: In The Still of the ference. Robert H. Ellis, Page High Night; It Don't Mean a Thing; Autumn have a fine constitution to go by which School, Greensboro, North Carolina, is Leaves; Quartette from Rigoletto (hil• they have drawn up in the last few arious!); My Darling Clementine; Park• Chairman of the Choral Section of the ing Space and Dry Bones. years. The head junior councilor is elect• North Carolina Music Educators Con• ed by the student council at the end of Scotia-Glenville Choralaires. Carl M. ference which sponsors the workshop, and Steubing, director. Century Custom Re• each year and he returns the following serves as Head Counselor. All of the cording Service. Monaural. year on a scholarship. This choral .group is recognized as one above mentioned. -music educators are of the top high school choirs in New During this week of intensified choral members of the American Choral Di• York State. Mr. .Steubing is a dedicated, training, affective choral techniques are rectors Association. well-learned director and his choir shows it. The Choralaires sing with fine tonal taught and desirable singing skills are de• As continued progress in choral activ• quality and above average balance and veloped. Each year a major choral work ity is desired in North Carolina, an addi• blend: of voices not often heard in high school choirs. Mr. Steubing's singers per• is studied either in part or in its entirety. tional week of the workshop will be form with good intonation and the dic• To this material is added a variety of added this year. This week of study will tion is adequate. His choice of music equals the level of many collegiate short selections included to demonstrate be geared to the junior high school stu• choirs as exemplified by such works as styles and periods. Materials are fea• dent, and will feature a mixed chorus, the Three Hungarian Folk Songs by Seiber; the Brahms "Grant Unto Me" tured which are to be included in the a girls glee club, and perhaps a boys and Faure's "Requiem." Other selections repertoire of the students home groups. glee club, depending on the registration. include: Ain A That Good News; Ma• dame Jeanette; Turtle Dove (Miss Culminating the weeks work is an open The dates for the two 1964 workshops Rheta Grenable sings a beautiful so• rehearsal to which the public is invited. are as follows: prano solo); An Eriskay Love .Lilt by Robertson, two "pop" tunes including The students select the music to be sung Senior High School Workshop, June 9- Stormy Weather and an excellent ren• and their choices are very discerning. dition of Saint Louis Blues with Helvi 14, 1964; J unior High School Work• McClelland as soprano soloist with string Permanent Chairman for thh Summer shop, June 14-19, 1964. bass accompaniment by Michael Wicks. The boys octet add more variety with Choral Workshop is Mrs. Maxine Black• Dr. Lara Hoggard, Director of the a Wilson arrangement of "Little Red well, Kernersville, North Carolina, who Midland - Odessa Symphony Orchestra School House." is also President of the North Carolina and Chorale, Midland, Texas, will be This fine record may be purchased by writing to Mr. Steubing at Scotia-Glen• Music Educators Conference. The Reg- the director for both workshops. ville Central School, Scotia 2, N. Y. 8 APRIL~l\'lAY 1964 19 30 minute concert featuring contempor• • 'ary music. Dr. Jo'hn · Tegnell (ACDA), ACDA Active 1n Director of Choral Organizations,·· .San Francisco State College, will be the fea• tured speaker and clinician. Dr. 'I'eg'nel! has consistently included a large amount California MEA Convention of contemporary -music in his perform• ances with the San Fran'Cisco State Col• lege Choir. This session cannot help but The following letter received in Feb• profit from his wide experience with ruary from State and Division Chairman this type of ·choral literature. Lee Kjelson is an excellent summary of (5) Rudolph .Saltzer (ACDA), Director of Choral Music, Los Angeles City Col• the work done in that area by Lee and lege will be the chairman of a session, other active ACDA members the past Creativity in Vocal Music (The .Small two years. Although the letter was writ• Vocal Ensemble for Gifted .Students). Featured will be the Madrigal Singers ten prior to the convention we feel our of Beverly Hills High School. Robert readers would like to share the spontan• Holmes, Supervisor of Music in Beverly Hills is the director. This is an out• aeity of a personal letter as well as the standing ensemble 1 and the convention is breadth and scope of plans for the state indeed fortunate to have it and Mr. Holmes for a concert-demonstrattorr ses• convention. We are sorry to lose Lee as sion. an active Chairman for he has done a (6) Maurice Dean, Choral Director at terrific job in his work with ACDA and King Junior High School in Oakland, we are sure that, although he does not has been invited to bring his various choral ensembles to the convention for ____ chair-the-pr.ogram,-he-wi!Lcontinue-to-b -session,-T.he-J.unior-High_S•choo!_V:o.cal an active and valuable worker for ACDA Program. Mr. Dean does outstanding work with young voices, as well as ac• in California and other areas where his quainting them with fine literature. guest appearances take him. Here is Lee's Morris Dill (ACDA), Director of Choral Music at Pacific Grove High School is letter, dated Feb. 5, 1964. the chairmen. Dear Wayne: (7) To Hlustrate the scope of perform• This will no doubt be my last com• ance groups to be. heard at the conven• munication to you as either Western tion; in addition to those Iisted previous• Regional Chairman or California State ly, the following groups and tlieir ·di• Chairman. Let me then begin by thank• rectors will also appear: ing you very sincerely for your fine co• Eureka Senior High School A Cap:pella operation relative to publicizing our ac• Choir, John Carawan·; Madrigal Bingers, tivities in this area. Hopefully ACDA Hiram Johnson Senior High School, is well launched in our western division, ARTHUR E. HUFF Sacramento, .Paul Ingham; Choraliers, and certainly The Journal is due a great San Jose State College, William Erlend• deal of credit for both the initial and Arthur E. Huff (ACDA) is t:he Organ• sen; El Monte High Sch.ool Choir, Gregg sustaining interest of our membership. izing Chairman of the Convention Chor• Larkin; Fresno High School Choraleers, There are a .great many choral events us. Mr. Huff is responsible for Vocal Michael Thayer; Reedley College, Schools planned for our California Music Edu• Music Programs in both the college and and Community. Chorus, Roy Reimer; cators Association convention in San public schools of Porterville; Calif: McClat!chy High School Choir, Sacra• Mateo, March 22-25. Many of these are mento, Walter Thomas; Clovis High being planned and conducted by ACDA (2) Dr. Jan Popper of the University School Hi-Liters, Fresno, Mercedes Ed• members. Let me be specific: of California at Los Angeles is widely wards; Franklin Junior High School, (1) An innovation of our Convention recognized as an authority on Opera and Vallejo, Richard Hull. this year will be the Convention Chorus, Opera Workshop. He will present a lec• Lois Wells (ACDA), El Monte, Jack to be composed of directors attending ture-demonstration dealing with the Coleman, Music Consultant, Orange the convention, student members, and place of opera in music education, dis• County, and Milton Young, Director of interested wives or husbands. Dr: Harry cussing the growth, influence and possi• Choral Organizations at Glendale Col• Wilson, Chairman of the Music Depart• bilites of Opera Workshop in the Schools. lege are chairmen of the above perform• ment, Teachers College, Columbia Uni• Several of Dr. Popper's students will as• ance sessions. Coleman and Young are versity, will 'be the guest director. Four sist him in this presentation. nominees for Vocal Representative for two 'hour rehearsals are scheduled dur• Dr. Randolph Hunt, Director of Chor• the 1964-66 California Music Educators ing the convention program, to be cul• al Music, Oakland City College (ACDA) Assoeiation Board. minated by an open rehearsal on the is the chairman of this session. Dr. last day of the converrtion, foblowed by Hunt's doctorate dissertation dealt with (8) Also to be included are the Lobby a performance of the chorus at a Gen• Opera and Opera Workshop, and 1he is a Sings, organized under the direction •of eral Convention Session. The Open Re• most appropriate person to "chair" this Eleanor Haines, Modesto. Mrs. Haines hearsal is designed to give Dr. Wilson session. is past-chairman of Vocal Affairs, CMEA, an opportunity. to discuss interpretation and present Bay Area Sectional Presi• and style, relative to the music being (3) Convention-goers will have addi• . dent, CMEA. rehearsed. Some of the music selected tional opportunity to observe Dr. Pop• per's work when his University of Cali• Lastly, Wayne, this convention will for the rehearsals and performance at conclude my term of office for three the General Sessions includes: fornia at Los Angeles Opera Workshop presents Rossini's An Italian in Algiers different positions: State Vocal Repre• sentative to the California Music Edu• Achieved is the Glorious Work ... Haydn during an evening concert, on Monday, March 23. cators Board, ACDA State Chairman, The Silver Swan Gibbons and Western Division Representative, Grant Unto Us the Joy of (4) A session dealing with Contem• ACDA ... It •has been most interesting at• Thy Salvation Brahms porary Choral Literature highlights the tempting to perform the duties of the Choose Something Like 1964 convention. (Last year's ·convention three offices, and hopefully advantageous a Star Thompson featured Baroque and Renaissance mu• to ACDA. Most ipileasurable has been the sic). Otto Mielenz, Director of Choral opportunity to work and 'become ac• Stomp Your Foot Copland Music at Capuchino High School (ACDA) quainted with the many fine ·choral mu• Three Shakespeare is the chairman. The City College of San sicians of this area and to become aware Songs ..... Vaughan Williams Francisco Modern Choir, directed by of their excellent achievements in their Te Deum Laudamus ...... Wilson Galen Marshall (ACDA) will give a 20- programs. e 20 THE CHORAL JOURNAL luncheon for Chairmen Well Attended At the Wednesday luncheon for Iowa ; W. Warren Sprouse, Maryland; ACDA National, Divisional, and State Gilbert T. Vickers, Massachusetts; Har• Officers 33 were in attendance with 5 vey E. Maier, Mississippi; Paul Paige, out of 6 Divisional Chairmen present Maine; Clarence Miller, New Jersey; and well over 50 percent of the State Paul B. Fry, North Carolina; Ferris Chairmen in attendance. Acting as Ohl, Ohio; Robert Page, Pennsylvania; "whip" for the luncheon, Second Vice John Rezatto, South Dakota; Theron President Helen Hosmer introduced and Kirk, Texas, Viola Painter, Virginia; called for several short talks by National Donald Foltz, Wisconsin; Marie Joy Officers, called for self-introductions of Curtiss substituting for Walter Collins, all chairmen present, and sparked the Michigan ; Jess C. Rose for Lloyd K. hour with comments on the results of her Herren, Kansas, and Donald Gunderson work with State and Divisional Chair• for Harvey Waugh, Minnesota. G men the past two years. To offer new ideas in development of Newbury Directs state programs, Miss Hosmer called on WAYNE S. HERTZ Theron Kirk of Texas, Bob McCowen Chicago Telephone Chorus Serving as a Panel member for the Wednesday evening, March 11, discus• of Iowa, Clarence Miller of New Jersey, Choral Reviewer Kent A. Newbury sion session was Wayne 1S, Hertz, Chair• and Walter Rodby of Illinois to present was appointed this fall to the director's man of the Central Washington State College Department of Music at Ellens• plans used in organizing their states. position of the Illinois Bell Telephone burg, Wash. The music department Officers attending were President Company Chorus in Chicago. One of just moved into a new $1.1 million dol• lar Music Building with a staff of 12 Imig, First Vice President Elwood J. Chicago's outstanding Company choruses, and a total ·of 134 music majors enrolled Keister, Second Vice President Helen the Bell group presents a series of con• the present quarter . Active as guest con• Hosmer, Editor Wayne Hugoboom, ductor, Wayne will conduct the B. C. R. certs from February 19 to May 22, All-Province Chorus in Victoria .Aipril Board Members Elaine Brown, Harry when the final concert will be presented 3, the Tri-City festival in Richland, Apr. Robert Wilson, and Ben V. Grasso, and in Orchestra Hall. Newbury was ap• 25; the Seattle All-City Festival April 30; the Peninsula Festival at Port An~ Program Chairman Don H. and Mrs. pointed to succeed the choir's director of geles May 2, and the Portland Rose Mu• Razey.: Divisional Chairmen present were 19 years service and rehearsals are held sic Festival June 10-12. Graduating from the Univer.sity of I van Trusler, Eastern; Robert McCow• in the Loop every Wednesday evening Illinois in 1932 with a BS in Music Ed• en, North Central; Paul B. Fry, South• from September through May. The full ucation, Hertz received his MM degree from Northwestern in 1938 and Ed. D. ern ; Theron Kirk, Southwestern; and choir rehearses from 6 to 8 p.m. and the in Music Education at New York Uni• Lee Kielson, Western. State Chairmen men continue for another half to one hour. versity in 1959. He has been Chairman of the Music Department at Central attending were Charles Farmer, Ala• Numbering about 60 at present, the Washington since 1938 as well as direct• bama; William Trego, Arkansas; Lee choir is expected to grow as the season or of the Central Singers. He has acted as teaching fellow at both New York Kjelson, California; John Held, Colo• progresses, maintaining both balance and University and University of Idaho dur• rado; Ivan Trusler, Defa.ware; Pauline interest. We join other ACDA friends ing summer sessions and has been ex• Mattingly, District of Columbia; Walter tremely active in State, Divisional, and in wishing Kent much success in this new National music educational activities, in• Rodby, Illinois; Charles D, ·Matheson, venture and challenge. ft cluding membership on the National Board of Directors for MENO 1946-51 and 1956-60, on the executive board 1959- 52, National Chairman, Commission VI, Other Convention Articles to Appear in Next Issue Music in the Senior High School, 1955- 59, member of the Editorial Board for Due to .lack of time in assembling formed at the Thursday afternoon ses• the Music Educators Journal 1960-64, materials, several articles on various seg• sion following awarding of honorary chairman of chorus selection commission, NIMAC 1960-61, and is at 11resent a ments of the Philadelphia Convention memberships and a special presentation member of the Academic Music Panel, will be contained in the June-July issue to the Ford Foundation Humanities pro• Office of Cultural Presentation, U. S. of The Choral Journal: The special con• gram, will all appear in due time. Due Department since 1963. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sin• cert by The Singing City under Elaine to lack of space, Allen Lannom's ad• fonia, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Pi Kappa Brown, Comments by guest clinician dress will be carried in the June-July Lambda, Rotary International, as well as music education organizations and Ralph Hunter who appeared following Choral Journal. ACDA. the North Dakota Concert Choir's ex• While it is impossible to bring the cellent performance on Thursday morn- -, actual flavor of the convention to our weld our organization into a unified ing, an illuminating article on the use of readers and the feeling of cooperation group, united in purpose and endeavor. hand signals as demonstrated by. the St. and unity among those attending we hope The Philadelphia Convention was a step Kilian Boychoir and their director, Ar• that the brief articles, sketches.and write• forward and only by evaluating the re• pad Darazs, of Farmington, N. Y., as ups will help to fill in those gaps and sults and working through the nevt two well as articles on the Ford Foundation make each of you aware of the need for years can we build an even stronger and program for music in America, and the your presence at future conventions, more exciting program at Kansas City Manhattan School Chorus which ·per- either state, divisional, or national to help in 1966. e Al'RII,-"lA\' 1!164 21 San Francisco State College Choir Music Library Ass'n Releases Premiere Recording Meets at Ya le The first commercial recording of the national Society for Contemporary Music. San Francisco State A Cappella Choir, Peter Sacco, a native of Albion, N. At the recent annual meeting of the in association with the Society for the Y., holds the OMA Degree from the Music Library Association at Yale Uni• Recording of Contemporary Music, is University of Rochester Eastman School versity, Prof. William J. Weichlein, now being exclusively released on Music of Music ( 1958), and is an assistant University of Michigan, began his Pres• Library Records. An exciting collection professor of music at San Francisco State ident's term of office, succeeding Philip of fresh contemporary music, the record College. Dr. William Ward is Chairman L. Miller, New York Public Library. is an anthology including The Two Ci- of the Music Department of S1,1n Fran- New officers elected were Vice Presi• ties by Darius Milhaud, two movements cisco State College. A graduate of East- dent Irving Lowens, Library of Con• from Roger Nixon's cantata entitled The man School of Music with a Ph.D. in gress; Secretary Melva Peterson, College Wine of Astonishment, Peter Sacco's Composition, he has studied under How- of the City of New York, and Mem• Behold the Fowls of the Air, and Wil- ard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Her- hers-at-Large Ruth Watanabe, Univer• liam Wards Listen, Lord, and Kodaly's bert Elwell. sity of Rochester, and Jan La Rue, New Movements from M atra Pictures. Mil- The A Cappella Choir is directed by York University. haud' s Two Cities is recorded here for John Carl T egnell, who has directed the Present Executive Board members are the first time. Choir since 1952 and is the coordinator Treasurer Mary R. Rogers, Library of -----T-hree-of-the-Gomposer-s-are-faGulty-o.f-VoGa.J-Music;-at-the-Coliege.-A--resi-- · -Congress,Assistant-T-reasurer--Car.roll-D.• members at San Francisco State College. dent of Milbrae, he and his wife have Wade, Library of Congress, and Mem• Roger Nixon, Ph.D., University of Cal- been active in civic and school activities. hers-at-Large Donald W. Krummel, ifornia at Berkeley, is presently prepar- Copies of A Cappella Choir, Music Li- Newberry Library, and Past President ing a work for the Modesto Symphony. brary - 6997, are on sale in the College Philip L. Miller, New York Public He is also writing incidental music for Bookstore of San Francisco State, or may Library. San Francisco State's production of be purchased from Music Library Re- The Executive Board announced the Shakespeare's Tempest, and is an advisor cordings, 2439 47th Avenue, San Fran- appointment of Edward N. Waters, Li• fer the Composer's Forum of the Inter- cisco 16, Calif. ct brary of Congress, as Editor of Notes, to succeed William Lichtenwanger, Li• Leininger. A report will be carried in brary of Congress, whose resignation for Minutes of ACDA Convention The Journal. reasons of health followed a highly suc• Donald G~ Foltz, Wisconsin, presented cessful three-year editorship. The MLA the Slate of Officers to the Convention Business Meetings and moved that it be accepted. Second will hold its annual summer meeting July was by Harry R. Wilson, N. Y. There 2-3 in St. Louis in conjunction with the being no nominations from the floor, March 11, 1964, 9:30 a.m, the slate was unanimously accepted. In American Library Association conven• The opening .session of the ACDA discussion, a question was raised regard• tion. • Convention was called to order by Pres• ing the single slate, to which President ident Imig at 9:30 in the Bellevue-Strat• Imig responded that the size of the or• ganization two years ago at Chicago ford .Ballroom, Philadelphia, with the ACDA members are entertained at had dictated the move, but now that introduction of National and Divisional a Kaffeklatsch Thursday afternoon our number had more than doubled, the Officers attending. President Imig an• by the Philadelphia Chapter of nounced the absence of Secretary• Board would favorably consider readop• tion of the two-member slate for 1966. American Guild of Organists and Treasurer J. Clark Rhodes due to illness. their Dean, Mr. Charles Allison, A card was circulated for signatures There being no further business, the business session was adjourned by the following the. performance of the to be sent to Clark. Manhattan Chorus and just Following the St. Kilian Boychoir de• -Continued on page 27 prior to the Reading Session monstration and concert, President Imig presented the final Constitution and By• laws Revisions to the assembly for study prior to formal acceptance or rejection at the March 12 business session. R. W. Hugoboom, Acting Secretary March 11, 1964, 1:30 p.m. The 1:30 General Session was called to order by President Imig with further introductions. The Secretary-Treasurer's report was omitted due to Secretary Rhodes' absence and was slated to be presented to the membership at a later date through the pages of The Choral Journal. Editor R. W. Hugoboom reported on the steady growth of The Choral Jour• nal and its advertising campaign with a call for more support in advertising and materials. Members of the Editoria· Staff were presented: Anthony Cappa donia, Kenneth C. Donmoyer, Wm. B Tagg, and Journal assistant James E 22 THE CHORAL JOURNAL Northwest Iowa District Holds First Madrigal Festival The Northwest Iowa District of ACDA met at Paullina for the first Madrigal Festival to be held in the state of Iowa. Fourteen active members of ACDA attended the five hour session and dinner. One hundred and fifty stu• dents representing twelve different mad~ rigal groups met to listen to and sing pure madrigals. Owen Ensrud of Paul• lina hosted the students and directors. California Girls Choir. Director Robert Larsen, opera coach and di• California Girls Choir John Vaznaian on left, his wife, Grace N. Vaznaian, Assistant rector of the Simpson College Madrigal Plans European Tour Director and chaperone, on right Singers was the guest clinician. Mr. Lar• sen worked with the two solo madrigals The Porterville, Calif., High School and Czech songs sent over Eastern Euro• and demonstrated and lectured about Girls Choir, which toured Europe in pean countries. With sufficient response, madrigal performance traditions. The 1961 and 1963, posed for their picture the group plans to tour Europe again in Sac City Madrigal, director Gordon at Llangollen, North Wales, during the 1965. The choir usually spends 60 days Lamb, and the Holstein Madrigal, di• 1963 Eisteddfod. Members of the choir in Europe and, dependant on response rector Dennis Johnston, performed as are from as far south as San Diego to from Poland and Czechoslovakia, the solo madrigals and were used as demon· Berkeley and from Santa Cruz to San 1964 tour will be extended another 1 0 stration groups. Jose to the north. Rehearsals are held by days. The girls have requests for 50 ap• At the dinner the entire group sang sections and, whenever possible, the group pearances with 15 cities asking that mem• several madrigals under the direction of gets together as a unit. bers stay at private homes overnight as Mr. Larsen. Through the music Larsen The choir's first concert in Limerick they did in 1963. Members selected pointed out the many t~aditions and styles the second day after arrival resulted in for the touring group pay their own way. of performing pure madrigals. a double standing ovation by a packed Director of the unique group is John The program for the Festival: 3 to house. The choir presented over 30 pro• V aznaian, who has been on the faculty 3:30, Registration; 3:30 to 5:15, Lec• grams in concert halls, churches, service at Porterville High School since 194 3 ture and demonstration by using the two clubsand over BBC-TV, BBC radio, and who is responsible for both the ex• solo madrigals; 5 :30 to 8 :00, Dinner Welsh National TV, Austrian National cellence of the group and their extensive and more lecture and demonstration. TV, Graz radio and Radio Free Europe. European tours. Mrs. Vaznaian, who is Mr. Larsen's ~ealth of knowledge of In Vienna the and and a half hour con• assistant director and chaperone on tour, madrigal literature made the day very re• cert extended an extra hour due to en· plays viola in the Fresno Philharmonic warding for both student and director. cores and repeats. It was the only choir Orchestra and is principal violist in the Plans are being made now to make invited to perform during the 1963 In• Tulane Co. Symphony. 8 this an annual event for ACDA members ternational Cultural Days in Vienna. in Northwest Iowa. Plans are also being The girls competed for the· second Clinician Robert Larsen made to have regularly scheduled meet• time at the International Eisteddfod and demonstrating madrigal ings during the next school year. • placed 8th in folk song, 5th in both the phrasing at the dinner Open Youth and Female divisions, mis• sing first place in youth group by 5 marks. In the evening concert program at Eisteddfod, the choir received such a prolonged ovation it was allowed to break the I 7-year-old rule, it was told, to return to the stage for an encore. The repertoire of the choir is built of "Songs of the People" and aside from English, Irish, and Spjirituals, the group sings in Armenian, French, German, Russian, Yugoslavian, Gaelic, Italian, Czechoslovakian, and Polish. The group was featured over Radio Free Europe during the Christmas week with Polish APRIL-MAY 1964 23 RICKER COLLEGE HOLDS FIRST CHURCH MUSIC WORKSHOP Houlton, Me. - Delegates to the first annual Church Music Workshop Feb. 22 at Ricker College here heard concert organist and composer V. Earle Copes of Nashville, Tenn., predict that various Protestant groups will cooperate in the publication of a common hymnal in the forseeable future. Copes, who is a consultant to a com• mittee of the National Congress of the Methodist Church which is revising the Trumann High School Madrigal Methodist Hymnal, said probably the FIRST CHORAL WORKSHOP Singers perform for North East revision on which the committee is work• FOR DIRECTORS OF Arkansas Choral Directo's Work• ing will be the last hymnal the Metho• shop. Jack Ballard, Director dists will publish. NORTH EAST ARKANSAS "As much as 85 percent of the ma- The Choral Directors of North East Sidney Banks, Cotton Plant; Miss Janet -----+eria}-in-the---new-revision-of-the--Metho-- Ar-kansas-held-their-first--annuaL.Choral Gwaltney__,- Crawfordsville; Mrs. Bob dist Hymnal is found in hymnals of Workshop on the campus of Arkansas Cooper, Dell; Mrs, Markham Howe, other denominations," the guest lecturer State, Saturday, March 21st. Earle; Warren Haley, Flippin; A. F. said. Sponsoring the workshop was the Vo- Thomas, Forrest City; Mrs. John Low• The Nashville music editor, who cal Department of ASC. Participating man, Gosnell ; Miss Lillie McKnight, serves on committees on church music for directors were Mrs. Curry W. Martin, Harrisburg; Mrs. Maxine Bracy, Hoxie; the National Council of Churches and Bald Knob; Sterling Granger, Blythe• Miss Sonja Joy Dalrymple, Jonesboro; the Music Teachers National Associa- ville; Mrs. Bill Wilson, Brinkley; Mrs. Jim Williams, Marion; Neil Peevey, tion, participated in the workshop at the Marked Tree; -Mrs. Pat Qualls, Mon• initation of its organizer, Ricker Music Copes made his remarks during the ette; Mrs. David Niederbrach, Nettle• Director Paul Eric Paige. morning assembly at a lecture-discussion ton; Miss Sarah Ann Johnson, Osceola; en the Hymnal which he conducted. He Mrs. Ruth Hinkley, Parkin; Jerry Pre• Orgap. Clinic Demonstration at a opened the morning workshop session wett, Rector; Mrs. Helen Henderson, Church Music Workshop at Ricker Sloan-Hendrix; Jack Ballard, Trumann; College, conducted by composer with an organ clinic. and concert organist V. Earle Copes Choir director, organist, and music ed• Mrs. Carol Cosgrove, Turrell; Miss of Nashville, Tenn., committee ucator Paige conducted a choral clinic Clara Weir, Walnut Ridge; Mrs. Lois member of the National Council of Churches and the Music Teachers at the first afternoon session. He em• G. Etherridge, Wheatley; Emmett S. National Association and consultant phasized preparation of the director as Buford, Wynne. to the National Congress of the Methodist Church the key to effective rehearsals of church The program for the day included a choirs. seminar on the Junior High choral pro• Paige earned his A.A. at North Park gram, A. F, Thomas, Forrest City; sem• College at Chicago, Ill., received a B. inar on Class voice, David Niederbrach, Mus. degree at Boston University and ASC; luncheon program by the T ru• an M. Mus. at Northwestern University. - mann High School Madrigal Singers; He is Maine State Chairman of the demonstration of Vandre Sight-Reading American Choral Directors Association. Method, Jack Ballard, Trumann; sem• Mrs. Kay Trickey, Director of Choirs inar on the Senior High choral program, at the Methodist Church of Houlton, Alfred Skoog, ASC. presented a demonstration of rehearsal Concluding the day's achvities was a techniques at a junior choir clinic in the business meeting and formal organization afternoon. Mrs. Trickey spoke of the of the Northeast Arkansas Choral Di~ importance of children's understanding rectors Association, Emmett Buford of the texts they sing "so that the singing Wynne, presiding. becomes a worship experience for them." The Workshop climaxed a week of The American Choral Foundation choral activities at ASC including the was represented by Administrative Di• Annual High School Choral Music F es• rector Bernard L. Jessup of New York, tival on Tuesday, when over 1500 who called Ricker's Church Music High School students from 26 High Workshop "an exciting and impressrve Schools of this area were heard in var• project." @ ied choral performances. @ Ricker Photo by Facer- '!-t THE CHORAL JOURNAL University of Detroit LUTHER COLLEGE PRESENTS THREE SPECIAL CONCERTS Singing Titans A series of three special concerts, in• The Youth Choir Director by Marie Don Large, University of Detroit volving four Luther College music organ• Joy Curtiss, B. F. Wood Music Co., Inc., Chorus director, believes that "a singing izations, will be presented this spring. (Mills Music, Inc.) New York 19, N. Y. Paperback, 1963, 64 pp. $3.50. youth is a happy youth. When young Taking part in the unusual program will Former Second Vice President Marie people are happy together, they behave. be the Luther College Choir, Community Joy Curtiss of Michigan has developed Because they are so engrossed in the and written a much needed book deal• Orchestra, the College Singers, and the ing with the problems found in the de• thing at hand, they are not subjected to Women's Chorale, with three faculty velopment and maintenance of Youth the usual distractions which young people members, Theodore Snyder, Gerald Han• Choirs in the church program. The work is a much needed addition to works al• face today. sen, and Don Gresch, conducting. ready extant in this area for it serves "Through singing together, they learn The first concert by the orchestra and immediately for those interested in be• ginning such choirs as well as those to get along together - a precious ac• Luther Choir, featuring student and fac• who have already formed them and are quirement for life. Getting our young ulty soloists, was presented at 8 p.m, looking for solid, tried-and-true advice. As in all works, there are terminology people interested in creating good music Saturday, March 21, in Valders Con• usages that differ slightly from one di• - and keeping them developing -- of• course on the campus. Two of the main rector to another, the work as a whole presents all problems simply and clearly fers to us who love them and are res• compositions conducted by Snyder and with excellent ideas for obtaining re• ponsible for them while they are with us, Gresch were the complete Dido and sults. both a challenge and an opportunity." Planned especially for work with Aeneas by Purcell and the Haydn Di• teen-agers, the book is divided into eight Based on this philosophy, the U-D vertimento in G for orchestra. main sections with numerous subheads Chorus has in just 1 0 years as an organ• The second concert, conducted by that serve as guides to explain or de• fine. Main headings are (1) Building ized campus group performed for many Snyder and Hansen, will be Sunday, Your Choir· Program; (2) Ministers, different activities both on and off cam• May 3, at 4 p.m, in the Decorah High Parents, Adult Committees; (3) Recruit• ing and Audtttoning: (4) Rules and pus. School Gym with the Orchestra, Luther Forms; (5) Training the Singing Voice; Over the years, the whole Chorus, the Singers, faculty and guest soloists pre• (6) Seventeen Vocalises; (7) Rehearsals and (8) Choral Techniques. Photographs, Singing Titans (a 20-voice group com• senting the Bach Brandenburg Concerto sample choir letters and forms, seating prised from the larger 90-voice chorus), No. 5 in D for orchestra and the Mag• plans, and many other necessary points are competently handled. The. book is a the Honeybees (a girls' trio), quartets nif icat in D for chorus, soloists, and or• must for the inexperienced director, and and quintets have sung at numerous func• chestra. a valuable addition for all directors of tions. Among these are: the premiere of similar groups. Our congratulations to The final concert Saturday, May 16 Marie for such a fine work and sug• the Cinerama production "Windjam• at 8 p.m. in Valders Concourse will gestion that it be placed on your "want• mer," Goodwill Industries, the Sheraton• feature orchestra, Women's Chorale and ed" list. - RWH 8 Cadillac Hotel, General Motors Tech faculty soloists. Conducted by Gresch and Center, Michigan Bell, and the Latin Snyder, the program will include the soloists and chamber ensemble; St. Ni• Quarter. Two high spots in the season's Stravinsky Cantata for Women's Chorus, cholas for women's chorus and orchestra activities are the annual trips to Boys• by Theodore Snyder of the Luther fa• ville at Macon, Mich., and the Federal culty; and Stravinsky's Norwegian Moods The Singing Titans Correctional Institution at Milan, Mich., of the University of Detroit for orchestra. 0 according to the U-D Alumni Magazine for the Winter of 1964. The Singing Titans, pictured here, are a part of the University Chorus. They appear perhaps forty times a season, sing for many national conventions in Detroit and are booked by the professional . book• ing offices. They use choreography, props, special lighting, costume changes, and many special effects. They are a self-supporting group, which endears them to the hearts of the administration. Their director, Don Large, came to the U of Detroit in 1953, having been choral director for Wayne King, music director of General Motors Audio-Visual Studios, and director of the "Make Way for Youth" chorus at radio station WJR for 1 5 years. As such, his programs were heard on the Armed Forces Network, Voice of America, and CBS. 0 APRIL -1\IAY 1964 25 Ch()l°al l2 ieWJ (Critical evaluations of the worth of the voices with soprano and 'baritone solo. Easy number with comfortable tessitura. numbers are usually absent, since only Sacred. those considered worthy by the Review• God Is God 1380 Leland Sateren, Augs• burg Publishing House, 25c. Unison, so• ers are mentioned at all.) Al.fred R. prano-alto, tenor-bass, and four part sec• tions. Very effective combination with Blinde the accompaniment. Nebraska State Lullaby R3-48 Joseph Hayes, Hal Leonard, 25c. Suggestions for interpre• College. tation by the composer included. Some Chadron, Neb. effective lullaby writing. All within the average voice range. Now Let All Sing A-735 Theron Kirk, Shawnee Press, 30c. Parts available from George L The Lovers (from "Three Songs") 4272 pu'blisher ($3.00 ·per set). For mixed chorus, brass ensemble (2 trumpets, 3 Gansz Chopin-Della Joio, Marks Music Corp., trombones), timpani, and piano. Per- 30c, piano accompaniment. Orchestra formance time 3:oo .. suggest as an ex- University of version for sale OL101, price not Indi- cellent festival selection. Calls for rhyth- Pennsylvania cated. Freely tr~nscrib~d: One ~inute .mie precision and full tone. ----'---Pnilade!pJl~-a.--~~-;:~:c:~~:;td~~~ti~~;-~~::~~~{;~f;~~--=:.:s:=o_u_.t:.:hc::..::::.:W=in::.:d:...s-=:::cA::.-..:.74=-0=-K..:.e..:..n_n..:.e'-t-h-H-.,-e-n-d::-e-r--- accompanying lines, interludes, and the son, Shawnee Press, 25c. Piano, optional varying rhythmic phrase entrance. claves, maracas, bongos, timbales, and Recommended for Female Voices string bass for accompaniment. Per• Symphony of Praise 2413 C. A. Pelo- formarice time 2:40. Introductory section The Lord is Merciful - J. S. Bach, SSA, quin, McLaughlin & Reilly Co., 40c. voices us "Ah" and "Zoom" for effect. Plymouth Music, DC 204, 25c. Three part male chorus, congregation, From measure 25 on words are used. In the Don Craig Choral Series. From and orchestra or organ. Based on Psalm Rhythm, tonal combination, and phras- "Magnificat in D." Lat.in and English 150. Performance time 2:45 minutes. Ing are part of Intenpretation of title. texts. Piano accompaniment. Interesting rhythmic patterns, Metric in- Good Night, Ladies A730 arr. Livings• Gloria - Schubert, SSA, Plymouth Mu• dications clearly presented throughout ton Gearhart, Shawnee Press, 25c. Piano sic, DC 205, 25c. number. Forceful ·unison lines. Many in- accompaniment requires two parts. An arrangement .by Don Craig of this tervals of a fourth moving downward. well known chorus from the Schubert Sing Your Way Home A-738, adapted German Mass, English and Latin texts. An Hopeful Shelter and a Strength by Livingston Gearhart, Shawnee Press, Piano accompaniment. 829 arr. Don Malin, B. F. Wood Music 25c. Camp song. Co., 30c. Based on Psalm 46 as it ap- The Water is ·wide ~ Luigi Zaninelli, peared in "The Ainsworth Psalter 1612." SSA, Shawnee, B 222, 25c. A cappella, No time signature. Tempo An adaptation of a folk song. Simple indication hal!f note equals 60. Only choral and piano ·parts. Some divisi. measure . length variation is consistent. Jan Waselu · - M. Leontovich, SSAA, Written in verse form. Shawnee Press, B 223, 25c. Let Us Break Bread Together A-726 Text by Wihla Hutson. An interesting arr. Roy Ringwald, .Shawnee Press, 25c. Kent A. a cappella number. Performance time 3:20. Ranges from a Newbury The Lord's Prayer - John Raymond, men's unison to six parts. Suggested pri• SSA, Plymouth Music LC 200, · 25c. marily for accompaniment as contrasted Thornton Township A chant ty;pe setting for a cappella to the well-known a cappella arrange• High School and voices. Easy yet effective. ment. Good Night - Folk song, arr. Malin, From Steeples High D3-48 Ed. & arr. Junior College SSA, B. F. Wood, 830, 25C; Wm. Morris, Hal Leonard, 25c. Based Harvey, Ill. The familiar German folk song in an on traditional Swedish folk melody. easy setting. With piano accompaniment. From the Yuletide 1Series, a bright and Have Songs - Will Sing! - Collection cheerful easy Christmas selection. For Recommended for Female Voices arr. Harry Simeone, SSA, Shawnee Press, your planning, may I quote "Again that 2-Part GS 33, $1.50. happy day is nigh?" God, Who Created Me - Cecil Cape, An excellent collection. Good variety. We Give Thee T·hanks 1359 Robert unison and 2-part, Elkin (Galaxy) 2670, All secular with nice piano accompani• Wetzler, Augsburg Publisihing House, 25c. piano, 25c. ments . .Standards, Broadway show tunes, Beautiful, slow, flowing choral sound. A For boys choirs, the first verse is in novelties, etc. short middle section that is faster and unison and the second has a descant. A brighter. I like the solo phrase in the Recommended for Male Voices vigorous short anthem, it has a strong first and twenty-fifth measures accom• accompaniment with a steadily moving This Old Hammer - Work Song, arr. panied by a few selected voices with all bass. E. Ehret, TTBB, Shawnee C 183, 25c. voices of the choir making their entrance Consecration - Leonard Blake, SA, Ox• Short and easy. With piano accom• in the following measure as indicated for ford T58, piano, 35c. paniment. soprano part. The text based on Ecclesiasticus 38, Gloria - Schubert, TTBB, Plymouth, Jubilate Deo 1361 Gerhard Track, is given a lovely :minor setting, with the DC 303, 25c. Augsburg Publishing House, 35c. Latin first verse in unison and the last 2 in .See listing under female voices. and English text. Combination of con• 2-part. M-E . Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl - Col• trapuntal and homophonic writing. Some A Child's Prayer - Gustav Klemin, arr. lege Song, arr; Stuart Churchill, TTBB, careful tuning required. Section begin• Wm. Stickles, SA piano, G. Schirmer Plymouth, 25c. · ning in measure 41 has lower three 11097, 25c. A gay number. With piano accom• voices in. a rhythmic accompaniment un• A lovely, simple 2-part setting with paniment. der sustained soprano line. Closing sec• easy range (alto B-flat to sop. E-flat), tion a climactic Alleluia. The Lord's Prayer - John Raymond, very singable, quite easy accompani• TTBB, Plymouth, LC 300, 25c. Sing a Song of Joy 1374 Robert Powell, ment. Fine for young church choirs. E. See listing under female voices. 8 Augsburg Publishing House, 30c. Unison The Magnificat - Emma Lou Diemer, 26 THE CHORAL JOURNAL Choral Reviews American Branch of International U. and SA, piano or organ, Piedmont Heinrich Schuetz Society Formed 99, (Marks) 30c. A worthy piece of music using the St. The International Heinrich Schuetz Luke text. This is mostly unison, moves at a rapid tempo, the accompaniment is. Society with headquarters in Kassel, Ger• harmonically interesting and needs sure' many announces the formation of an hands. Melodically good also, there are three sections, with a change of meter American branch of the Society. in the second. E. The parent society was founded m Sing Unto the Lord a New Song - 1930 to promote the publication of a JACK BOYD Couperin-Jewell, SA, piano, Concordia 98-1709, 25c. new complete edition of the composer's A 2-section number that is based on works and to stimulate the performance U. of Colorado Psalms 96 and 100. M. of these works by church, college, and Boulder, Colo. Recommended for Female Voices concert choirs. The activities of the so• 3-Part ciety are governed by a distinguished The Little Family - John Jacob Niles, SSA, G. Schirmer 11089, 25c. · board of directors headed by Dr. Karl An Easter Carol, not a folk song, but Votterle of Kassel, Germany. with words and musrc by J. J. Niles, simply and beautifully tells the story of Persons interested in furthering the There is a great volume of music that the family with a "small 'boy, name of work of this society should contact the is applicable to both large and small Jesus." Written in Dorian mode. So• secretary of the American Branch for choral groups, but the number of newly prano solo in second verse. M. written or discovered pieces built spe• In the Bamboo Wood - Robert Gra• application blank and full particulars. cifically for a c'hamber 'presentation in ham, SSA, piano, Presser 31240552,· 25c. Send your inquiries to International a concert situation is amazingly small. Oriental in musical flavor, somber ly• For example, one publisher sent me 62 rics, and a gentle, beautiful wedding of Heinrich Schuetz Society, c/o Mr. Ed• separate octavos and only two were even the two. Even though the dynamic level ward W. Klammer, 3558 S. Jefferson partially adapted to a chamber choir. builds to a fortissimo in one spot, this For every octavo written up in this col• number needs a delicate presentation. Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63118. 8 umn from 15 to 20 have been examined. Not technically difficult. M. One of the problems is that there Three Songs from Emily Dickinson - should be some sort of balance betweert Smith, SSA, Franco Colombo, 20c each. religious and secular music on a cham• Quite interesting contemporary har• Minutes of --- ber music program, unless, of course, it is a specialty program of, say, the mo• monies seem to keynote these numbers, -Continued from page 22 whose separate titles are: "Heart, We tets of Heinrich Schutz. Let's face it, too Will Forget Him," "We Talked As Girls President. The President's address and many late Renaissance and early Ba• Do," and "Spring Comes On the World." Mr. Allen Lannom's talk on Church roque motets sound exactly the same. They are descriptlve of the poems, meant Music concluded the session. They were written to a formula and were to be sung a cap., and not lengthy com• not designed for concert performance. positions. M-D. R. W. Hugoboom, Acting Secretary (If the composer had waxed too gay he would have been fired.) Recommended for Male Voices Mai·ch 12, 1964, 1:15 p.m, However, if you happen to have a little Death, Be Not Proud - Fenno Heath, The 1:15 General Session was called thing about 16th and 17th century re• TTBB, G. Schirmer 11075, 25c. to order by President Imig to consider ligious material, write the Concordia A fine orginal for a cap. male choir adoption or rejection of the Constitution Publishing House, 3558 South Jefferson by Heath. This is not an easy number, and Bylaws Revisions. Adoption was Ave., St. Louis 18, Missouri, and ask with a range of bass low D to tenor A• moved by Marie Joy Curtiss, Michigan, them for a catalog. They have a ple• sharp, with some rhythmic problems, and and seconded by Jess C. Rose, Kansas. thora of things that are built for a contemporary harmonies, but for a good There being no discussion, the vote for small group. Two of their best lines are choir, this is a challenging concert adoption was unanimous. the Concordia Motet Series and the An• number worth doing. D. Donald G. Foltz announced the elec• thology of Sacred Music. From the last There Is a Ladye - Alan Murrary, arr. tion results, a unanimous ballot for the named series there is a good one called Bill Simian, TTBB, Paterson PT 1680 A slate: J. Clark Rhodes, President; Har• Sorrow Doth Vex Now My Sph'it by (Carl Fischer), 20c. old C. Decker, .Second Vice President; Johann Juhnau. For 25c you get 110 Short, with two brief solos for bari• Harvey E. Maier, Sec'y-Treas.; Division measures of excellent music. A real bar• tone or tenor, a cap., standard harmon• Chairmen Ivan Trusler, Eastern (1 year); gain. The ranges are conservative, the ies. E. Paul B. Fry, Southern (3 years); Theron writing effective. Kirk, Southwestern (1 year); Robert Ave, Color Vini Clari (Hail Thee, Col• Mccowen, North Central (3 years); How• Mills Music has a set of Three Whit• or of Wine So Bright) - Juan Ponce, arr. ard Swan, Western (3 years); Robert man Excerpts by Gerald Strang. These Robert Goodale, TTBB, G. Schirmer E. Robins, Northwestern (1 year); Rep• are well written from several stand• 11082, 25c. resentative-at-Large Jane Skinner, Cali• points, particularly in the mating of des• One of the Early Spanish Choral Mu• fornia; and Industry Associate Repre• criptive music with emotton-charged sic series of .Schirmer, this is a student sentative, Don Malin, N. Y., appointed words .. The set would take about 6 min• drinking song from the court of Ferdi• by MP A President Bernard Kohn. utes to perform (Strang's timing) and nand and Isabella. The editor, Goodale, Following the business session, Hon• are well-paced for concert use. There feels that this a cap. composition is an orary Life Memberships were conferred are occasional divisi passages, but noth• obvious parody of a liturgical motet and on Julius Herford and Hugh Ross, N. ing that would give any problem. Write should be sung "quasi religioso." Both Y., by President Imig with appropriate Mills Music, 1619 Broadway, New York, Spanish and English texts are given. M. responses from each. Ford Foundation N. Y. 10019. Creation's Hymn Beethoven, arr. Program of Humanities was presented Sonnet of the Thrush is by John Col• Malcolm Sargent, TTBB, Oxford OM51, with a special Award plaque for meri• man and is fairly difficult. Lots of <9d. net). torious service to American music by chances for a chamber group to show This tune is probably familiar to most President Imig. Response was by Asso• off with this one. A short melodic mo• church choir directors, at least, as there ciate Director Edward F. (Chet) D'Arms, tive binds the whole thing together. If are SATE arrangements under other representing Director W. McNeill Lowry. your bunch can sing on pitch and knows titles. Sargent's vigorous a cap. arrange• A performance by the Manhattan the difference between pp and ff, then ment is the first for male voices to come Chorus under the direction of Hugh this is for you. Associated Music Pub• to this reviewer's attention. It's brief, Ross brought the Session to a close. lishers, One West 47th St., New York, but strong. E. R. W. Hugoboom, Acting Secretary N. Y. 10036. e) APRIL-1\IAY 1964 27 MARYLAND Fink, Paul Ernest, Haverford Twp., Sr. Hill, Paul R., 9521 Riggs Rd., Adelphi H. S., Havertown Greig, Harold W., Chmn. Mus. Dept., Pointer, Mrs. Martha W., Southern High Geneva College, . Beaver Falls •School, Baltimore Prussing, Stephen H., 6919 Wilson Lane, Kaufman, Mrs. Marjorie, 114 Hillson St., . 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Box 411, Fletcher Fisher, General Manager, 1841 Broad• VanDer Sloot, Kenneth, Estherville H S way, New York, 10023 and Junior College, Estherville OREGON V\Talker, Donald A., 1655 N. 23rd St., Edmiston, Joseph F., 6406 S. W. View CANADA Point Terrace, Portland Fort Dodge Terry, Earle, 381 St. George Street, Lon• PENNSYLVANIA don, Ontario KANSAS Noble, Roger, 515 Holmes, Kiowa Cheesman, Miss Virginia, 7326 German• town Ave., Philadelphia 19 • KENTUCKY de Mets, Lee, 605 Grace Lane, Warrington RENEWALS Cook, Mrs. Betty H., 1010 Brand Street, Dovenspike, Wm. L., Chmn. Mus. Dept., Koski, George W., Chmn. Mus. Dept., Mayfield Calif. St. College, California Howard College, Birmingham, Ala. 28 THE CHORAL JOURNAL Bailey, Mrs. Portia T., 7151 S. Green• Y"V1 ¥ v '¥¥+' y ¥ .. v + y: 'V' editor does not tell us how many con• wood Avenue, Chicago temporary composers he contacted, but Peterman, Dr. William J., New Trier the eighteen whose essays are included Township H. S., Winnetka, Ill. represnt many of the different styles of Sanda~], Miss ~arcia, 3828 N. Keeler, Book Review composition practiced during the first Chicago, Illmois, 60641 half of this century. Together with the Dunn, Philip G., 253 N. Cecil Avenue fascination the reader will feel as he Indianapolis, Indiana, 46219 ' By DR. GALE L. SPERRY reads these men's personal comments, Rose, Jess C., 8717 W. 73rd St., Shawnee Director Instrumental Music Education he may feel also a sense of frustration Mission, Kansas University of South Florida, Tampa at being denied the points of view of Traver, Paul P., Music Dept., U. of Md., those composers who are deceased, and College Park, Md. of those who prefer to let their music Luchtman, Clarence, 551 Orchard Drive, speak for itself, and of those who were Northville, Michigan The Bela Bartek Archives by Victor Bator (Bartek Archives Publication) too busy or not sufficiently interested Sullivan, Ernest, 5851 Golfside Drive, to participate in this collection of essays. Alma, Michigan 1963, 54 pages Two years before his death in 1945 Included with the essays are musical Rice, Wilby, 131 Hull Avenue Waynes- excerpts from the works about which ville, Missouri ' Bartek asked his friend, Victor Bator, to collect his manuscripts as a monu• the composers have commented. Also Berenbroick, Lester W., Park Avenue, listed are the choral compositions of Morristown, New Jersey ment to the composer's life and works. Now, nineteen years later, due to his each of the eighteen represented in the Hoffman, Abigail K., 15 South New Ha• book. . ven Avenue, Ventnor, New Jersey friend's persistence and loyalty there exists in New York a "Bartek A;chives" Although there is an obvious advan• Fields, Gene, 511 F. Girard SE, Albu• tage to the vocal conductor or perform• querque, N. M. - a well developed and well organized institution. er to be able to learn the composer's Gustin, Gordon L., Music Director Bam• intent and ideas concerning interpreta• berg American .School, APO 139, New 'I'ue attractive format and excellent il• lustrations make this soft cover book a tion, there is much to be gained from York, New York this book by those not so directly in• Lieberg, Hardy D., 2705 1st Avenue SW, valuable acquisition for Bartek fans. Briefly and interestingly the author volved with choral music. For example, Minot, North Dakota the band conductor who has worked Lawson, Mrs. Alia Ross, Converse Col• tells of his struggle to assemble the com• poser's manuscripts. with Perstchettt's beautiful second move• lege, Spartanburg, S. C. ment of his Sixth .Symphony for band Purdie, Hunter, 3133 Windsorview Dr., The major portion of the book con• sists of a chronological listing of Bar• will surely gain much from the com• Richmond, Virginia poser's discussion of this same melody Lyon and Healy Co., E. W. Carter, Mgr. tok's compositions and a brief survey of the letters, books, articles, clippings, as used ;by him in his Hymns and Res• Sheet Music Div., 243 S. Wabash ponses for the Church Year. Avenue, Chicago 4, Illinois programs and photographs which are included in the Archives. From any vantage point The Com• ASSOCIATE "C" Study of i:Jhis publication impresses poser's Point of View represents a sig• one with the scholarly attitude and per• nificant ,.addition to our presently lim• Wood, Albert J., 10 W. Madison, Balti• ited body of knowledge about the com• more 1, Maryland sonal devotion of Mr. Bator and his as• sociates who assisted in the develop• poser's creative process. ment of the Bartek Archives. The United States are represented by seven: composers: Lukas Foss, Howard ADDRESS CHANGES Scales, Intervals, Keys and 'I'rfads Hanson, Ernst Krenek, Peter Mennin, (Note: To aid in correcting your lists (A Self-Instruction Proogram) by John Vincent Persichetti, Bernard Rogers, each new address is followed by the old Clough (Norton), 159 pages and Leo Sowerby. city and state in parenthesis. No line In the wake of recent emphasis on Four English composers pantictpated : appears if the change is only within a the use of programmed texts for the Peter Racine Fricker, Anthony Milner, city or name.) teaching of basic subject matter appears Edmund Rubbra, and Michael Tippett. Clough's book designed to teach ele• Eu.ropean choral composers are repre• ILLINOIS mentary music theory. sented by Swiss Conrad Beck and Frank Guenzler, Robert A., 6850 Golf View Organized into twenty-four sets, the Martin, Karl-Berger Blornda.hl of Swe• Lane, Palos Heights (Blue Island) book can be completed in 6 - 12 hours den, I~alian Luigi Dallapiccota, Jean by a high school or college student. F'rancaix and Jean Langlais of France, INDIANA Assuming no previous knowledge of and Herman Reutter of Germany. G& Tatum, William, 2117 Arapahoe, Lafay• music rudiments on the •part of the stu• ette, 47905 dent, the text covers clearly and system• atically all major and minor scales PROIFESSDONAIL CARDS IOWA identification and notation of key signa~ Trautwein, John W., 136 West Alta Vis• tures, recognition and construction of ta, Ottumwa, 52501 intervals, and bhe structure and analysis Curry, Jerry, MFL Community Schools, of triads. R. WAYNE HUGOBOOM Monona (not Monroe) The obvious limitation of a non-aural Guest. Conducting Adjudication approach to these fundamentals is well• Clinic Consultant NEW HAMPSHIRE known to the author. Still, this book Belmain, Carol, RFD 1, Plymouth provides an effective visual introduction P. 0. Box 17736 Phone (Area 813) to the basic music rudiments. The self• Tampa, Florido - 33612 935-9381 NEW YORK instruction method seems to offer real Goida, Gregory H., 28 Bright Oaks Dr., possibilities in bringing the college and Rochester, 14624 elementary education major to a mini• Frank Music Corporation, Arnold Broido mum level of notational proficiency re• (not Brodt as in directory), Director quired as preparation for the usual Adve:rtise1'"s Index of Publications and Sales, 119 W. course in music methods and materials. 57th St., New York City In any case, the book is intended to provide a foundation for subsequent TENNESSEE work in a standard textbook. It is not Augsburg Publishing House. . . 3 Spann, Samuel, 516 Pontotoc (not Pon• represented as a complete course with Chappell & Co., Inc...... 4 tiac as in directory), Memphis, Tenn. applicatlcn to the aural aspects of music. Columbus Boychoir ...... 3 TEXAS The Composer's Point of View (Essays Educators Music . 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