Official Publication of the American Choral Directors Association US ISSN 0009-5028 JANUARY 1997
Official Publication of the American Choral Directors Association Volume Thirty-seven Number Six
JANUARY 1997 CHORALjO John Silantien Barton L. Tyner Jr. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR
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COLUMNS EVENTS From the Executive Director ...... 2 Schedule at a Glance ...... 9 From the President ...... 3 From the Editor ...... 4 Convention Schedule...... 11
Student Conducting International Choirs in Concert ...... 25 Competition ...... 90 National Convention ...... 93 Feature Concert ...... 33 Convention Program Index ...... 96 National Honor Choirs ...... 39 Advertisers Index...... 96 Auditioned Choirs ...... 45 The covers showcase various San Diego sires, including the San Diego Convention Center and the San Diego Civic Theatre (Opera House). Pharos courresy of rhe San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. Concurrent Sessions ...... 67
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 1 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS ACDA Looks to the Past and the Future , INDIANA ,N HIS DECEMBER COLUMN, Lynn Whitten presented you with the wonder !(:::HORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION ~ ful news about ACDKs plans for the World Choral Music Communication and President - Patricia Wiehe ! Resoutce Center and the Historical Museum of American Choral Music. Both of 2435 Glenhill Drive I Indianapolis, Inrliana 46240 these important projects will be instrumental in helping ACDA preserve its past and Treasurer - Paula J. Alles ensure its future. The World Communication and Resource Center will utilize tech 1471 Altmeyer Road nology so that choral directors across the U.S. and around the world will be able to Jasper, Indiana 47546 communicate with one another and locate important information about choral music. IOWA CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION The museum will help ACDA preserve the history of the choral art and the choral President - Janiece R. Bergland conducting profession, and it will be accessible not only to choral directors but also to 2534 155th Street the general public. Floyd, Iowa 50435 Secretary/Treasurer - Bruce A, Norris These incredible undertakings have been made possible by the generous support 420 Maple Street of the McMahon Foundation of Lawton, Oklahoma, which has agreed to give Mondamin, Iowa 51557 ACDA $300,000 towards these projects. The McMahon Foundation has played a MINNESOTA pivotal role in helping ACDA establish a permanent headquarters building. It CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION provided our organization with the funds needed to relocate to Lawton, and it was President - Allan Hawkins 500 South Jefferson Stre~t most generous in giv,ing the money we needed to expand our National Headquarters New Ulm, Minnesota 56073 in 1986. As a result, ACDA has a fully paid-for national headquarters, something Treasurer - Richard F. Edstrom 2305 Winfield Avenue, North few organizations can boast possessing. Without the incredible generosity of the Golden Valley, Minnesora 55422 McMahon Foundation, ACDA simply could not address the needs of this fast MONTANA growing organization. 'CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION President - Peggy Leonarrli ACDA Needs Your Help 161 Eastside Highway Hamilton, Montana 59840 In order for ACDA to secure the $300,000 grant from the McMahon Foundation, Treasurer - Larry Swingen ACDA members have been requested to raise $200,000. At its San Diego meeting in Box 670 September 1996, the ACDA National Board of Directors approved a ten-dollar Malta, Montana 59538 increase in active membership dues to help meet the McMahon challenge. That dues NEBRASKA increase will help tremendously, but it will go only so far. I ask that you please consider ,CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION President - David H. Moore making a financial gift to ACDA in order to ensure that the $200,000 matching fund 12740 Deauville Drive is fully met. ACDKs ability to meet the goals of its building expansion require Omaha, Nebraska 68137 additional generous support from ACDA members. I hope you will come to ACDKs Treasurer - Clark Roush York College assistance in bringing to fruition these exciting projects for choral music. P.O. Box 438 I wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year. York, Nebraska 68467 , OHIO Gene Brooks ,CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION President - Peter G. Jarjisian School of Music, Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 Treasurer - Robert M. Hartigan STATEMENT OF MEMBERSHIP 8770 Landen Drive The American Choral Directors Association is a nonprofit professional organization of choral directors from Maineville, Ohio 45039 schools, colleges, and universrries; community, church, and professional choral ensembles; and industry and institutional organizations. Choral Joumal circulation: 18,000. Annual dues vncludes subscription to the TEXAS Choral Jouma/): Active $55, Industry $100, Institutional $75, Retired $25, and Student $20, One-year CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION membership begins on date of dues acceptance, Ubrary annual subscription rates: U.S. $25; Canada $35; President - Randy Talley Foreign Surface $38; Foreign Air $75. Single Copy $3; Back Issues $4. 3654 Lorna Drive ACDA is a founding member of the Intemational Federation for Choral Music. Odessa, Texas 79462 ACDA supports and endorses the goals and purposes of CHORUS AMERICA Secretary/Treasurer - Cheryl Wilson in promoting the excellence of choral music throughout the world. 9393 Skillman, #122 ACDA reserves the right to approve any applications for appearance and to edit all materials proposed for distribution. Dallas, Texas 75243 Permission is granted to all ACDA members to reproduce articles from the Choral Joumal for noncommercial, educational purposes only. Nonmembers wishing to reproduce articles may request permission by writing to ACDA. WISCONSIN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION The Choral Joumal is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. President - Kevin Meidl Recognizing its position of leadership, ACDA complies with the copyright laws of the United States. Compliance with these laws is 916 South Park Avenue a condrrion of participation by clinicians and performing groups at ACDA meetings and conventions. Neenah, Wisconsin 54956 © 1997 by the American Choral Directors Association, 502 SW Thirty-eighth Street, Lawton, Oklahoma 73505. Telephone: Secretary/Treasurer - Michelle Klotz 405/355-8161. All rights reserved. The Choral Joumal (US ISSN 0009-5028) is issued monthly, except for June and July. Printed in the 2648 North Lefeber Avenue United States of America. 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PAGE 2 CHORAL JOURNAL FROM ACDA THE PRESIDENT OFFICERS Important New Year~s Resolutions for ACDA Members PRESIDENT Lynn Whitten T COULD BE BETTER than sunny San Diego in early March? After College of Music, University of Colorado perusing this issue of the Choral JournaL you'll certainly have your appetite Boulder, Colorado 80309 well-whetted to be there March 5-8 for ACDA's National Convention. VICE-PRESIDENT John Haberlen The dazzling array of events scheduled from School of Music, Georgia State University Wednesday afternoon to Saturday night show University Plaza Atlanta, Georgia 30303 cases some two and a half dozen of the best PRESIDENT-ELECT choirs in the world, mostly from the U.S., of Jim Moore course. I'm every bit as excited about hearing the School of Music, East Texas Baptist University Marshall, Texas 75670 truly awesome (in the traditional sense of the PRESIDENT-ELECT DESIGNATE word) public-school children's chorus from Mis Milburn Price souri as I am the long-renowned Eric Ericson School of Music, Samford University Birmingham, Alabama 35229 Chamber Choir. I can't wait for my first live TREASURER hearing of the choral/orchestral masterpiece Elaine McNamara Hymnus paradisi, written by English composer 2863 NE Twenty-third Avenue Lighthouse Point, Florida 33064 Herbert Howells following the death ofhis young EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR son. It will be paired with ACDA's large-scale Gene Brooks commissioned work just now being finished by P.O. Box 6310, Lawton, Oldahoma 73506 405/355-8161 • Fax: 405/248-1465 longtime favorite Gian Carlo Menotti. CENTRAL DMSION PRESIDENT Glancing over several past January conven Charles K. Smith tion issues of the Journal along with this one, I am struck by the virtual who's who of School of Music, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824 our art chosen to lead interest sessions. Where else but at an ACDA convention could you hear Mozart specialist Neal Zaslaw lecture, then listen to his concepts demon EASTERN DMSION PRESIDENT Michele Holt strated by chorus and orchestra? Each of you will have favorite sessions; there is truly Stonington High School 176 South Broad Street something special for everyone. Pawcatuck, Connecticut 06379 ACDA conventions are the mountain-top experience for choral musicians. We are NORTH CENTRAL DMSION PRESIDENT extraordinarily fottunate in that we improve our craft while enjoying the aesthetic Lauretta Graetz experience of listening to others' choirs. The Convention Steering Committee, compris 2706 River Woods Lane Burnsville, Minnesota 55337 ing President-Elect Jim Moore, Assistant Convention Chair Bill McMillan, Program NORTHWESTERN DMSION PRESIDENT Chair Don Trott, and Executive Director Gene Brooks, deserves our highest accolades. Thomas A. Miller Warner-Pacific College 2219 SE Sixty-eighth Street Important New Years Resolutions for ACDA Members Portland, Oregon 97215 The information in this issue of the Choral JournaL so dazzlingly put together by SOUTHERN DMSION PRESIDENT Managing Editor Barton Tyner, should convince you not to miss the March 5-8 Kenneth Fulton School of Music, Louisiana State University convention. Resolve to make every effort to attend the 1997National Convention ofACDA. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Data disseminated at the September National Music Education Summit indicates SOUTHWESTERN DMSION PRESIDENT that we in ACDA and all music organizations cannot flag in our advocacy thrust. John Yarrington P.O. Box 250768 Resolve to keep advocacy efforts strong and print the ACDA Advocacy Statement in your Little Rock, Arkansas 72225 newsletters and on your concert programs. WESTERN DMSION PRESIDENT You were told of the tremendously exciting Historical Museum of American James O. Foxx 2554 Twain Avenue Choral Music and World Choral Music Communication and Resource Center in the Clovis, California 93611 December Choral Journal (and in this month's Executive Director's column). ACDA INDUSTRY ASSOCIATE REPRESENTATIVE can go into the next century with an up-to-date communications facility from which Lynn Sengstack Shawnee Press, Inc. all choral musicians can benefit. Resolve to make a generous donation in 1997 to the 49 Waring Drive ACDA Communication and Resource Center. Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania 18327 Best wishes for a New Year filled with superb choral music. PAST PRESIDENTS COUNCIL Wuliam B. Hatcher Lynn Whitten School of Music, University ofIowa Iowa City, I<;>wa 52242 Maurice Casey ColleenJ. Kirk Walter S. Collins Theron Kirk Editor's Note: Material for this issue, submitted by the patticipants or their representative(s), was HaraldA. Decker Diana]. Leland edited for length and clarity. The editors have made every effort to ensure factual accuracy. Morris D. Hayes Russell Mathis Charles C. Hirt H. Royce Saltzman Convention times, events, and locations listed in this issue are subject to change, so be sure to Warner Imig Hugh Sanders consult the convention program book for the most up-to-date schedule. Elwood]. Keister David Thorsen
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 3 FROM EDITORlAL THE EDITOR BOARD EDITOR John Silantien Getting Your Article into the Choral Journal Division of Music, University of Texas at San Antonio S A SEQUEL to my December column in which I issued a call for articles, this San Antonio, Texas 78249 210/458-5680; e-mail: [email protected] month I discuss how our Editorial Board evaluates an article. We consider thirteen ASSOCIATE EDITOR criteria originally adopted in the early 1980s. Associate Editor Nina Gilbert and I Nina Gilbert have collaborated on this column, and we hope it moves you to submit articles or to University of California-Irvine Music 292, Building 71 4 contact us about developing your ideas into articles. Irvine, California 92697 1) Topic is of national importance; will interest many readers. The editor of your 714/824-3854; fax: 714/824-4914; e-mail: NLGilberr@aoLcom state or division newsletter welcomes articles on topics of local or regional interest. MANAGING EDITOR 2) Article offers new knowledge or offers new insight on the topic. Articles that rely Barton L. Tyner Jr. heavily on secondary sources are seldom judged to offer new knowledge. We usually reject P.O. Box 6310 Lawton, Olclaboma 73506 extensive citations from New Grove articles, for example. On the other hand, a compilation 405/355-8161; fax: 405/248-1465 of widely scattered secondary sources might effectively demonstrate a new hypothesis. e-mail: [email protected] 3) Article will challenge readers' thinking. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Joanna Teel 4) Material is timely. Anniversaries of composers or events offer timely opportunities Division of Music, University of Texas at San Amonio for articles. San Antonio, Texas 78249 phone and fax: 210/458-5680 5) Premise is well-defined, supported, and developed. The purpose of the article should e-mail: [email protected] be clear. The author should supply convincing evidence to support the thesis, developing the Allison S. Lowe premise so that a reader unfamiliar with the topic will understand the article's arguments. 3889 Clover Lane 6) Scope is appropriate-neither too narrow nor too broad. An example of too broad a Dallas, Texas 75220 scope would be an article that introduced a composer, presented biographical information in EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Chester Alwes detail, and then compared all the composer's cantatas point-for-point with the cantatas of School of Music, University of Illinois Telemann and Bach. You could make such an article appropriate in scope by reducing the 1114 West Nevada Urbana, Illinois 61801 biographical material to a paragraph or two that discussed aspects ofthe composer's life and works Richard J. Bloesch that were important to the present study. You could then select works for analysis that were School of Music. University ofIowa relevant to your thesis. Ifyour goal is to prove that this composer imitates the text-symbolism or Iowa City. Iowa 52242 rhytlunic techniques of Bach, for example, you could selectively present works that strengthen David L. Brunner Deparrment of Music, University ofCemral Florida your point. Ifyou have studied several dozen cantatas as part of your preparation for the article, P.O. Box 161354 you can summarize your findings rather than lead your readers through each discovery in detail. Orlando, Florida 32816 7) Information is precise, accurate, and well-documented. Sometimes writers use CorydonJ. Carlson P.O. Box 9517 vague, subjective adjectives to describe musical elements-e.g., a "wonderful" melody or Bolton. Connecticut 06043 "beautiful" harmonies or "fine" orchestration. Precise, objective descriptions are more Christine D. de Catanzaro effective at convincing readers that the work is wonderful, beautiful, or fine. School of Music, Georgia State University University Plaza 8) Article is well-wrirten; material flows in an easily read, narrative style. This Atlanta. Georgia 30303 criterion covers a wide range of stylistic issues. Mitzi Groom a) Cliches: phrases such as "choir and audience alike," "eminently singable," and Department of Music and Fine Arts Tennessee Technological University overused metaphors may give an article a pretentious or thoughtless tone. Box 5045 b) Imprecise generalizations: phrases such as "Many conductors think ..." or Cookeville, Tennessee 38505 "One of the most ..." or "Very frequently, choirs ..." indicate that the author is Sharon A. Hansen Departmem of Music. School of Fine Arrs hoping to convince the reader of something without offering any evidence. We do Universiry of Wisconsin-Milwaukee not know, for example, how many conductors the author has surveyed, if any, to P.O. Box 413 support the first phrase above. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 "It Robert Provencio - c) Sentences beginning with is ..." or "There are ..." are wealdy constructed California Stare University-Bakersfield and can usually be recast. 9001 Stockdale Highway d) Repeated use of passive voice also weakens an article's style. Balcersfield, California 93311 Our goal is to encourage clear, interesting expository prose that is neither verbose nor Timothy W. Sharp lang College chatty. We can polish some grammar as we revise an article for publication. If ambiguous 1350 King College Road grammar obscures an article's meaning, however, we are more lilcely to reject it. Bristol, Tennessee 37620 9) Most of the ideas seem to be the author's; quotes enhance the article. Secondary-source Stephen Town Deparrmenr of Music quotes offering analytical descriptions of scores are not as strong as your original musical insights, Northwest Missouri State University unless the source of the citation has special significance. Analyses that take a "road-map" approach Maryville, Missouri 64468 to the score by simply listing all musical events as they occur cause readers to lose interest. COORDNATOROFSTATENEWSlliTTE~ Richard Kegerreis 10) Author uses musical examples judiciously (if applicable). On the one hand, we do One Craig Drive not want to reprint large excerpts. On the other hand, we need to see enough music to Hunrington Station, New York 11746 16/423-0701; e-mail: [email protected] make the author's descriptive comments understandable.
PAGE 4 CHORAL JOURNAL NATIONAL 11) Material is not readily available in other publications. If a topic has been covered R&S CHAIRS in a recent book or journal that overlaps our readership, we can assume that readers who NATIONAL CHAIR are interested in that topic will find that material. On the'other hand, material that may be Barbara T agg considered common knowledge by some may be new to developing conductors and, if 215 Crouse College, Syracuse Universiry Syracuse, New York 13244 originally presented in a new context, can prove valuable. 12) Article avoids promoting a company; person, product, or performing organization. BOYCHOIR Darrell James 13) Title is appropriate. We do not reject an article for its title-we try to devise a Salem Boys Choir better one. 1320 Capirol Street, NE Please feel free to contact either Nina or me with any other questions you may have Salem, Oregon 97303 about writing for the Choral Journal We are eager to hear from new writers. CHILDREN'S CHOIRS Deborah A. Mello John Silantien 435 Ridge Road Newton, New Jersey 07860 COLLEGE AND UNNERSITY CHOIRS Jerry McCoy Department of Music, Oklahoma State Universiry Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 COMMUNITY CHOIRS Bill Diekhoff 5019 Hermitage Drive Anderson, South Carolina 29625 ETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTNES Ronald Kean Department of Music, Bakersfield College 1801 Panorama Drive Bakersfield, California 93305 JAZZ AND SHOW CHOIRS Phil Mattson School for Music Vocations Southwestern Communiry College Creston, Iowa 50801 JUNIOR HIGH/ MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIRS _omesolo Kathy Anderson 1551 Parleview Avenue Festival 500 Sharing the J...Oices San Jose, California 95130 51. John's, Newfoundland, Canada MALE CHOIRS Clayton Parr June 23 - 29, 1997 Department of Music, Miami Universiry Oxford, Ohio 45056 The choirs are all in place, but there's a bit more room. So why don't you come solo? Festival 500 has limited space available for MUSIC AND WORSHIP Carl L. Stam individual choristers and conductors to participate in this international Chapel Hill Bible Church event. You can attend workshops led by choral experts. 1200 Mason Farm Road Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Hear concerts featuring choirs from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHOIRS Americas. Sing in a massed performance of Carmma Burana. And Janice R. Bradshaw attend the opening ceremonies and all the parties - all for the low 811 Sixth Street Boonville, Missouri 65233 registration fee of $185.00 Cdn. Special guest artists include: The King's Singers, Doreen Rao, Bramwell Tovey, Erkki Pohjola, TWO-YEAR COLLEGE CHOIRS D. Brent Ballweg Elmer Iseler, Wayne Riddell, Jon Washburn, Mary Goetze, Collin Counry Communiry College Leon Thurman, Diane Loomer, Anthony Barresi and The Iseler 2800 East Spring Creek Parkway Plano, Texas 75074 Singers. So register now and come sing solo with us. WOMEN'S CHOIRS For furrher information and application Leslie Guelker-Cone forms contact: Department of Music Western Washington Universiry Festival 500 Sharing the voices P.O. Box 1997 Bellingham, Washington 98225 St. Joho's, NF AIC 5R4 Canada YOUTH AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES Phone: 709-579-1997 Scott W. Dorsey Fax: 709-579-2067 Department of Music, Mount Union College E-mail: [email protected] Alliance, Ohio 44601
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1:00-10:00 P.M. CONVENTION REGISTRATION 10:15 A.M.-12:15 P.M. CONCERT SESSIONS 3 & 4 Exhibit Hall C Golden Hall (Gold Badges) Civic Theatre (Platinum Badges)
2:00-7:30 P.M. VISIT THE EXHIBITS LUNCH Exhibit Hall C 12:30-7:00 P.M. VISIT THE EXHIBITS INTERNATIONAL CHOIRS IN CONCERT I & 2 ExhbitHallC Golden Hall (Gold Badges) Civic Theatre (Plot!num Badges) 1:00-2:00 P.M READING SESSIONS 5:15-8:00 P.M. DINNER San Diego Convention Center
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8:00-IO:15 P.M. INTERNATIONAL CHOIRS IN CONCERT I & 2 CONCERT SESSION 5 Civic Theatre (Gold Bodgcs) Golden Hall (Plotinum Budges) Golden Hall (Gold Badges)
READING SESSION (4:00-5:00 P.M.) San Diego Convention Center (Platinum Badges)
6:15-9:15 P.M. DINNER (Gold Badges) 7:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. CONVENTION REGISTRATION Exhibit Hall C 6:45-8:45 P.M. CONCERT SESSION 5 GOLDEN HAll. (Platinum Badges) 7:00-8:00 A.M. R&S BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES San Diego Convention Center READING SESSION (7:00-8:00 P.M.) San Diego Convention Center (Gold Badges) VISIT THE EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall C JAZZ CONCERT San Diego Convention Center CONCURRENT SESSIONS I San Diego Convention Center
IO:I5 A.M.-I2:20 P.M. CONCERT SESSIONS I & 2 Civic Theatre (Gold Badges) Golden HalllPlntlnum Badges) 7:30 A.M.-2:30 P.M. CONVENTION REGISTRATION 12:30-2:30 P.M. LUNCH Exhibit Hall C
12:30-4:00 P.M. VISIT THE EXHIBITS VISIT THE EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall C Exhibit Hall C
1:00-2:00 P.M. READING SESSIONS CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5 San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2 IO:I5 A.M.-I2:45 P.M. NATIONAL HONOR CHOIR SESSION San Diego Convention Center Golden Hall {Gold Badges} CONCERT SESSION 6 (IO:I5 A.M.-I2:I5 P.M.) CONCERT SESSIONS I & 2 Civic Theatre (Platinum Badges) Civic Theatre (Gold Badges) GoJden Hall (Plllllnum Badges) 12:00 M.-2:30 P.M. VISIT THE EXHIBITS 6:15-8:30 P.M. DINNER ExhibitHallC
7:00-8:00 P.M. READING SESSION 12:15-3:00 P.M. LUNCH San Diego Convention Center 1:15-2:15 P.M. CONCURRENT INTEREST AND READING SESSIONS CONCERT SESSIONS 3 & 4 San Diego Convention Center Golden Hall (Gold Bndges) Civic Theatre (Platinum Badges) FEATURE CONCERT Civic Theatre (Gold Badges) NATIONAL HONOR CHOIR SESSION 6:00-5=30 P.M.) Golden Hall (Platinum Blldges) 7:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. CONVENTION REGISTRATION Exhibit Hall C 5:30-8:00 P.M. DINNER
7:00-8:00 A.M. R&S BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES 8:00-10:00 P.M. CONCERT SESSION 6 San Diego Convention Center Golden Hall (Gold Bildges)
GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING FEATURE CONCERT San Diego Convention Center Civic Theatre (Platinum Badges)
VISIT THE EXHIBITS IO:30 P.M. PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION (BY INVITATION) Exhibit Hall C Room To Be Announced
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 San Diego Convention Center -C]-
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I:OO-IO:OO P.M ...... CONVENTION REGISTRATION Exhibit Hall C
8:00-IO:00 A.M ...... NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING Room 12
9:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M ...... ChoralJournalEDITORIAL BOARD MEETING/LUNCHEON Room 18
: IO:OO A.M.-2:00 P.M ...... NATIONAL R&S COMMITTEE MEETING/LuNCHEON Room 12
2:00-3:00 P.M ...... NATIONAL AND DIVISION R&S COMMITTEE MEETINGS Room 12
2:00-7:30 P.M ...... VISIT THE ExHIBITS Exhibit Hall C
INTERNATIONAL CHOIRS IN CONCERT 2 (Gold Badges) INTERNATIONAL CHOIRS IN CONCERT 1 (Platinum Badges) Golden Hall Civic Theatre
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Boychoir Jazz and Show Choirs "Serving Boys Who Love to Sing" "Vocal Jazz: Choral, Jazz, or ?" Room 12 Room 158
College and Universiry Choirs Senior High School Choirs "Meet the Composers: Discussions "Embracing Freedom: Paths to Vocal Colors" with Jean Belmont and Morten Lauridsen" Room 16A Room 15A
Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives Two-Year College Choirs "The Wonderful World of Tone Color" "Choral Program Development in the Room 14A Two-Year College-Strategies that Work!" Room 18
Women's Choirs "Programming with Punch: Imaginative Repertoire Choices for Women's Choirs" Room 17A
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8:30-9:30 A.M ...... •.•...... •.•...... CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1
"The Changing Voice and Beyond" "Music iu the Holocaust: John M. Cooksey, clinician The Holocaust in Music" Room 168 Joshua R. Jacobson, clinician Room 148
"Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Service" "Music of the Afro-American Tradition: Marin Chonev, conductor A Look beyond Gospels and Spirituals" MORSKl ZVUTSI CHOIR Andre J. Thomas, clinician Cathedral Church of St. Paul BAYLOR UNIVERSITY A CAPPELLA CHOIR Room6D&E
"Exploring Choral Music "Recent Choral Music of John Rutter" of the Nordic and Baltic Regions" John Rutter, clinician Eric Ericson, clinician Room 178 ERlC ERlCSON CHAMBER CHOIR Golden Hall
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JANUARY 1997 PAGE 13 • President's Address Seattle, Girls' Choir Prime Voci Lynn Whitten, Natidnal'President Jerome Wright, conductor
.; . Mount Whitney High School Golden,WesijHigh School Trailblazer , Pioneer Choir Concert Choir lDan]ackson, conductor Jeffrey A. Seaward, conductor
Western Illin,ois University Singers James C. Stegall, conductor l: \ ,: J"! -, i ' iUtahChaffiberArtists Pacific Chor~e [ [Barlow Bradford, cortductor,. John Alexander, conductor [._.L~~._:: .... _,~~_"~_~¥._
12:30 P.M ...... TROLLEY RUN From San Diego Concourse To San Diego Convention Center
12:30-2:30 P.M ...... LUNCH
12:30-4:00 P.M ...... ~ ...... VISIT THE EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall C
1:00-2:00 P.M ...... READING SESSIONS
Music for College, University, Music for Junior Highl and Community Choirs Middle School Choirs Room 16A&B Room 15A&B
2:30-3:30 P.M ...... CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2
"Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Service" "Russian Choral Music" Marin Chonev, conductor Vladimir Minin, clinician MORSIG ZVUTSI CHOIR MOSCOW CHAMBER CHOIR Cathedral Church of St. Paul Room 6D&E
"Latin American Choral Music" "Stylistic Expression Alberto Grau and Maria Guinand, clinicians and Interpretation of the Romantic Era" ORFE6N UNIVERSITARIO SIM6N BOLfvAR Donald N euen, clinician Room 14A&B UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CHORALE Golden Hall
"Successful Warmups" Nancy Telfer, clinician Room 17A&B
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PAGE 14' CHORAL JOURNAL Golden West High School Trailblazer Mount Whitney High School Concert Choir Pioneer Choir Jeffrey A. Seaward, conductor Dan Jackson, conductor
Western Illinois University Singers University of Michigan Men's Glee Club James C. Stegall, conductor . Jerry Blackstone, conductor
PacificChorale . Utah Chamber Artists JohnAlexander, conductor Barlow Bradford, conductor
6:15-8:30 P.M •...... ••.•...... •...... •...... DINNER
7:00-8:00 P.M ...... •.•...... •...... •.•.•.. READING SESSION
Music for Senior High School and Two-Year College Choirs Room 15A&B
8:30-10:30 P.M. CONCERT SESSION 3 (Gold Badges) CONCERT SESSION 4. (Platinum Badges) GofdenHalf Civic Theatre
Cherry Creek High School Girls' 21 Temple University Music Prep Children's Choir Charlotte Adams, conductor Judith Willoughby-Miller, conductor
James Martin High School Chorale Winter Park High School Concert Choir Randy Jordan, conductor Trey Jacobs, conductor
. University ofMiarni Chorale Baylor University A Cappella Choir Jo-Michael Scheibe, conductor Donald Bailey, conductor
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7:30-8:30 A.M ....•....•.•.•.•..•...•.•.•...... GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING Room 6C&F
7:30-9:30 A.M ...... •...•.••...... VISIT THE EXHIBITS Exhibit Half C
8:30-9:30 A.M ...... •...•...... CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3
"Children Sing World Voices: "Internet Resources for Choral Music" Hispanic and Hebrew" Timothy Brimmer, James D, Feiszli, Diana V. Saez and David F. Tilman, clinicians Michael Shasberger, and David Topping, panelists CALGARY GIRLS' CHOIR Room 168
SAN JUAN CHILDREN'S CHOIR Room6D&E
"Eastern Orthodox Litnrgical Service" "Northern Lights-Coloring the Sound Marin Chonev, conductor of Your Women's Choir" MORSKI ZVUTSI CHOIR Morna Edmundson and Diane Loomer, clinicians Cathedral Church of St. Paul ELEKTRA WOMEN'S CHOIR Golden Half
"Recent Choral Music ofJohn Rutter" John Rutter, clinician Room 178
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JANUARY 1997 PAGE 17 . kinter Park High SchoolConcert Choir James MartinHigh School Chorale jI'rey Jacobs; conduct()r Randy Jordan"conductor , Baylor University AqappellaChoir University of Miami Chorale ponaldBailey, conductor Jo-Michael Sc~eibe, conductor
., kbertM~Neil Jubile~ Singers ,,,.-.1'Tn,prn Iowa Concert Chorale . AlbertJ. McNeil, conductor
12:25 P.M ...... TROLLEY RUN From San Diego Concourse To San Diego Convention Center
12:25-2:3° P.M ...... LUNCH
I2:30-Too P.M ...... VISIT THE EXHIBITS ExhbitHallC
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PAGE 18 CHORAL JOURNAL 1:00-2:00 P.M •.•...... •.••...•.•...... •.•.•.•.•...... READING SESSIONS
Music for Jazz and Show Choirs Music for Treble and Women's Choirs Room 15A&B Room 16A&B
2:30-3:30 P.M ...... •••.•.•.•.•...... ••.•.•.•.•...... CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4
"Acoustic Vocal Tuning" "Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Service" Gerald Eskelin, clinician Marin Chonev, conductor L.A. JAZZ CHOIR MORSIG ZVUTSI CHOIR Room 17A&B Cathedral Church of St. Paul
"Choral Quick Fixes: Tried and Proven" "David Fanshawe's African Sanctus" ling Ling Tam, clinician Andre]. Thomas, conductor UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON CHAMBER SINGERS TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL CHORALE
Room6D&E UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA CONCERT CHOIR
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Golden Hall
"Less Is More-The Basic Elements of Expressive Conducting" Kenneth Fulton, clinician AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Room 14A&B
4:00-6:00 P.M ..•.•.•.•.•..•...... •....•.•.•.•.•. STUDENT CONDUCTING COMPETITION FINALS Room 16A&B
TROLLEY RUN (Gold Badge.) DINNER (4:00-6:45 P.M.) From San Diego Convention Center To San Diego Concourse
CONCERT SESSION 5 (Gold Badge.) READING SESSION (4:00-5:00 P.M.) (Platinum Badges) Golden Hall Room 15A&B
Indianapolis Children's Choir Music for Worship Henry Leck, conductor
University of Illinois Chorale Fred Stoltzfus, conductor
University of Colorado at Boulder University Choir Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Turtle Creek Chorale Timothy Seelig, conductor
DINNER (Gold Badges)
6:45-8:45 P.M. READING SESSION (7:oo.-:8:C>op .M.) (~Old Badge.) CONCERT SESSION 5 (Platinum Badges) Room·15A&B Golden Nail
Music for Worship Indianapolis Childl"en's. Choir Leek, .conductor
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 19 : DINNER (UNTIL 9:15 P.M.) (GoldSadges) University of!Jllinois Chorale Fred Stoltzfus, conductor
University of Colorado at Boulder University C~oir Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Tnrtle CreekChorale Timo'thy Seelig, conductor ~ 1 . TROLLEY Ru~ (8:55 P.M.) (PlaUnumSadges) From Golden ToSan Diego c.;onlvAntlnn Center
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PAGE 20 CHORAL JOURNAL 7:30 A.M.-2:30 P.M: ...•...... •.•.•...... •.•.•.•...•.•. CONVENTION REGISTRATION Exhibit Hall C
7:30-8:30 A.M ...... •...... •...... •..•.•.•.•...... ARCHIVES COMMITTEE MEETING Room 18
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"Developing Beautiful "The New Gregorian Chant" and Flexible Tone Quality in Children's Choirs" Robert M. Fowells, clinician Janet Galvan, clinician CHAPEL OF CHARLEMAGNE Room 6D&E Room 16A&B
"Making Music with Vocal Improvisation" "Robert Ray's GospelMass" Michele Weir, clinician Robert Ray, conductor Room 14A&B CENTRAL BUCKS HIGH SCHOOL-WEST CHAMBER CHOIR SUMTER HIGH SCHOOL RENAISSANCE SINGERS
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"Mozart's Sacred Choral Music" "Working with an Orchestra: Neal Zaslaw, clinician Survival Strategies for the Choral Conductor" Room 15A&B Robert Bode, clinician Room 17A&B
9:40 A.M ..•..•.•.•...•....•...•...... •...... TROLLEY RUN From San Diego Convention Center To San Diego Concourse
ro:I5 A.M.-I2:45 P.M. NATIONAL HONOR CHOIR SESSION (Gold Badges) CONCERT SESSION 6 (ro:I5 A.M.-I2:I5 P.M.)
Golden Hall Civic Theatre (Platinum Badges)
Children's Honor Choir Foothill High School Chamber Singers Anton Armstrong, conductor Jeffrey Brookey, conductor
Junior High School Honor Choir Texas Tech University Choir Nancy Cox, conductor Kenneth Davis, conductor
Two-Year College Honor Choir Austin Peay State University Chamber Singers William B. Hatcher, conductor George L. Mabry, conductor
Community Honor Choir Portland State University Chamber Choir Earl Rivers, conductor Bruce Browne, conductor
Stephen Paulus, God Be with Us. World premiere of a 1997 RayinondW; Brocl~ Memorial Cq~mi~sio~~~ C~nipositi~'n
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 21 12:55 P.M. 'TROLLEY RUN (G6IdBadges) TROLLEY RUN; (12:25 P.M.) (Platinum Badges) •From Gdlden Hall From Civic Theatre To San Diego Corvention Center
12:00 M.-2:30 P.M ...... VISIT THE EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall C
12:15-3:00 P.M ...... LUNCH
1:15-2:15 P.M ...... CONCURRENT INTEREST AND READING SESSIONS
"Mozart's Mass in C Minor" Neal Zaslaw, clinician UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAMBER SINGERS,
CONCERT CHOIR, AND CHAMBER SYMPHONY Room6D&E
Music for Boys', Children's, and Treble Choirs Music for Male Choirs Room 15A&B Room 16A&B
3:00-5:00 P.M. FEATURE' CONCERT (Gold Badges) NATIONAL HONOR CHOIR SESSION 8:00-5:30 P.M.)
Civic Theatre Golden Hall (Platinum Badges)
,. ,Introduction Children's Honor Choir Gene Brooks, Executive Director Anton Armstrong, conductor
. ,Gian Carlo Menotti, Jacob's Prayer Junior High School Honor Choir . A 1997 Raymond W. Brock Memorial N aney Cox, conductor . Commissioned Composition and World Premiere Herbert Howells, Hy"!nusparadisi Two-Year College Honor Choir Roger Melone, conductor William B. Hatcher, conductor
.,OklahomaStateUni,versityConcert Chorale Community :Honor Choir J'J erry McCoy" director '. Earl Rivers, c6nductor " -' . -. " .-," ; i iTexasChri~tian Uruf~rsity Concert Chorale' Stephen Paultl's, God Be with Us !' i Rc>nald Shirey,directw A 1997 Raymond ~Y[. Brock Memorial h Commissioned Co,?position and World Premiere 1\ 1 Combined Colnmunity and Two-Year College Honor Choirs:! William B. Hatcher, conductor t I f, i.' - ~ ,1 Ll~~ .i~~~:_·'~ _' c-_~~::~L~~.tL~~.:'·-I-:~~ __ ~_!~~L:_~:~ .. ~~~.:~~_...::.~_,_~ __ ~ ______~ __ ~ ______.~ __ '"
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PAGE 22 CHORAL JOURNAL .Texas Tech University Choir Gian Carlo Menotti,facob's Prayer Kenneth Davis,conductor A 1997 Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commissioned Composition and World Premiere Austin Peay State University Chamber Singers Herbert Howells, Hymnus pa1'tldisi George L. Mabry, conductor Roger Melone, conductor
Pol1:land State Univ:ersityChamberChoir Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale Bruce Browne,conductor Jerry McCoy, director
Texas Christian University Concert Chorale Ronald Shirey, director
University ofWisconsin-Ea~ Claire Concert Choir Gary R. Schwartzhoff, director
San Diego Chamber Orchestra
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Ave Chamber Choir HE AVE Chamber Choir, founded T in 1984 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and originally known simply as Ave, is mak ing its first appearance at an ACDA con vention. The choir evolved from its small beginnings as a group of young boys and girls singing simple, limited repertoire to one of Europe's finest adult mixed vocal ensembles. The Chamber Choir performs challenging repertoire from a wide variety of musical styles and periods. Since 1988 it has participated in numerous interna tional festivals and competitions in South Africa, the United States, Canada, and Europe. Ave has received top awards at many of choral music's most prestigious festivals, including the Golden Plaque at Ave Chamber Choir the 1990, 1992, and 1996 Nasa Pesem International Competitions in Maribor, throughout Europe and abroad. It recently Slov~nia; the first-place award for vocal received the Prderen Foundation Award, groups at the 1993 International Choir the highest cultural award given in Competition in Tours, France; and first Slovenia. prize for programming at the Interna tional Competition in Gorizia, Italy, at which it qualified to compete at the 1997 Elektra Women's Choir European Grand Prix in Tours. The choir's HE ELEKTRA Women's Choir was recent appearances include Copenhagen, T founded by codirectors Morna Ed Denmark, in October 1996 and Athens, mundson and Diane Loomer in 1987. The Greece, in November 1996. In addition choir is known for its adventurous pro to its rigorous touring schedule, the Ave gramming and for commissioning new Chamber Choir has recorded Ave and works for women's choirs. Elektra has been Hymnos Akathistos on cassette as well as awarded first prize for women's choirs in Eno je dete rojeno (The Child Is Born) four consecutive rounds of the Canadian and Skrinja orehova (Slovenian Folk Broadcasting Corporation's National Cho Songs) on cassette and CD. The choir is ral Competition, and it has received major directed by Andrai Hauptman. prizes for contemporary music perfor Elektra Women s Choir mance. In August 1996, Elektra repre Andrai Hauptman sented Canada at the Fourth World NDRAi HAUPTMAN, born in Symposium on Choral Music in Sydney, ACDA National Convention in San Di A 1968, is Founder and Conductor of Australia, cosponsored by the International ego, Elektra will concentrate on its up the Ave Chamber Choir, Ljubljana, Slo Federation for Choral Music. Concerts in coming premiere of Communion: An A venia. Hauptman studied music theory, New Zealand and Melbourne preceded its Cappella Opera, a seventy-five-minute flute, and vocal performance, and he re appearances in Sydney. Its CD recordings staged work written for Elektra by Van ceived a piano performance degree in Elektra WOmens Choir (the choir's first CD, couver composer David Maclntyre. 1991 and a conducting degree in 1995 which was nominated for a JUNO Award from the Slovenian Music Academy. He in 1994), Classic Elektra (released in 1994), Morna Edmundson founded the Ave Chamber Choir in 1984 and WOod River (scheduled for release early ORNA EDMUNDSON holds a and has led the group from its beginnings in 1997) are distributed in Canada, the M B.M. degree from the University as a children's choir to its current status as United States, and Great Britain. The choir of British Columbia, a diploma in choir an international award-winning adult frequently is broadcast on CBC Radio in pedagogy from the Stockholm Conserva chamber choir. Under Hauptman's lead Canada and on National Public Radio in tory, and the M.M. degree in choral con ership the group has toured extensively the U.S. After performing at the 1997 ducting from Western Washington
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 25 INTERNATIONAL CHOIRS IN CONCERT
University, Bellingham. Edmundson's pro fessional music career spans fifteen years ofsinging and conducting, including eight years as a professional singer in the Van couver Chamber Choir. She has worked for several years in software development, and she served two years as Assistant Di rector of the 1993 World Symposium on Choral Music in Vancouver, British Co lumbia. In addition to codirecting Elektra, Edmundson conducts the Vancouver Orpheus Male Voice Choir and the Coquitlam District Youth Chorus. Diane Loomer IANE LOOMER is an honors D• graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, and the University of British Columbia, Van couver, where she is on the music fac Moma Edmundson Diane Loomer ulty. In addition to her work with Elektra, she conducts the prize-winning men's choir Chor Leoni and the Univer sity .of British Columbia Choral Union. In May 1994, Loomer conducted the prestigious National Youth Choir of Canada. The YWCA named her Van couver's 1994 Woman of Distinction for VOCAL Arts:and Culture. Loomer's choral com positions and arrangements have been HARMONY published, performed, and recorded in by Elisabeth Howard and Howard Austin, ternationally, and she has spoken nu authors of Born to Sing merous times on CBC Radio as an advocate of classical music.
Includes instrument and vocal tracks to sing with for a great variety of melodies Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and exercises, including filling the missing voice in intervals or chords. HE ERIC ERICSON Chamber Scales - major, minor, blues, pentatonic, chromatic, whole tone and modes T Choir has held a central position in Intervals - all intervals are included in this section the Swedish and international music scenes ever since its founding in 1945 by Chords - major, minor, diminished, augmented, 7th chords, dominant, add 9 chords, 6th chords Eric.Ericson. The Chamber Choir, with its characteristic Nordic sound and vir Rhythm & Meter- time Signatures, simple rhythms, dotted rhythms, triplets, syncopation tuosity, has premiered works by many generations of Swedish composers. Its "... a systematic journey to musical literacy" - Robert Edwin, NATS Journal status as a world-class mixed choir has "... excellent, well structured" - Kari Windingstad, President, NATS L.A., UCLA been enhanced by numerous interna "... /ogical, thorough, melodic and musical" -John Glenn Paton, tiorial awards such as the Deutsche Editor "26 Italian Songs and Arias", USC Schallplattenpreis and the Edison Prize. 3 hours of recorded material and text in bookshelf album It annually tours throughout the world, including engagements throughout Eu CALL the VOCAL POWER INSTITUTE at rope, the United States, and Canada as (800) 829-S0NG well: as a recent concert tour of Japan.
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Eric El·icson Cham bel· Choir Eric Ericson
The Chamber Choir has made numer Ericson founded the chamber choir that Orphei Dranger (1951-91). For years he ous recordings of unaccompanied choral bears his name in 1945. He also served as served as Professor of Choral Conducting literature. With the Swedish Radio Choir Conductor and Artistic Director of the at the College of Music at the Royal Uni and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir (1951-82) and the versity, Stockholm. He recently has in- it has recorded Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri and Mozart's Requiem under Riccardo Mud as well as Haydn's The Creation and Beethoven's Missa solemnis under James Levine. In addition, the Chamber Choir has worked with Concentus Musicus of Vienna and its conductor, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, a cooperative ef Custom Concert Tours & International Festivals fort that has resulted in several record ings including Handel's Messiah. The Visit Musica Mundi's Booth at the ACDA Convention Chamber Choir often collaborates with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Announcing the and it makes numerous appearances on Baltic International Male Chorus Festival Swedish National Radio. June 1998, Helsinki /Tallinn / St. Petersburg / Moscow Eric Ericson 3rd Annual RIC ERICSON is, for many choral Edirectors, singers, and enthusiasts Tuscany International Children's Chorus Festival around the world, one of the unsurpassed July 1998, Florence/ Rome masters in the field of choral conducting. Muska Mundi, Inc. 1 800 947 1991 He has devoted his entire career to choral 101 First Street, Suite 454 • Los Altos, CA 94022 music, and his choirs have received great Phone 415 949 1991 • Fax 415 949 1626 international acclaim for their musical ex E-mail: [email protected] http://members.gnn.com/mmundi pressiveness, virtuosity, and versatility.
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creased his international engagements, Moscow Chamber Choir Mexico, and the United States. It has having guest conducted numerous pro HE MOSCOW Chamber Choir made more than twenty recordings and is fessional and symphonic choirs. He also T comprises thirty professional singers known for its broad repertoire of tradi presents an annual series of masterclasses and has received worldwide recognition tional and contemporary Russian choral worldwide. In June 1991, Ericson received for the beauty, virtuosity, and expressive music. The Moscow Chamber Choir the Danish Sonning Music Prize. He is a ness in its performances of Russian mu made history in 1987 when it performed member of the Swedish Royal Academy sic. Founded in 1972 by Principal Rachmaninov's Vespers-the first time in of Music and the Honorary Chairman of Conductor Vladimir Minin, the Cham more ,than seventy years that the master the International Federation for Choral ber Choir has performed in famous ven piece had been performed in Russia. The Music. ues throughout Europe, Japan, Canada, Chamber Choir also has received atten tion for its efforts in premiering pieces by contemporary Russian composers, most NN9617C notably Valerlya Gavrillin's The Chimes (composed specifically for the choir) and Georgy Sviridov's Pushkin's Garland (com posed in collaboration with the choir). Because the choir reflects the strong vi sion of its director, it has been compared to a : drama company and has become known as the "Minin Choir." Vladimir Minin "' JLADIMIR MININ graduated from V the Moscow Conservatory of Music, where he has taught choral conducting since. 1954. He also is a professor at the Gnessin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. Minin is in great demand around the world as a guest conductor. In the past Call 1-800-897-KJOS for your free CD four years, he has guest conducted in the U.S., including performances of Rach 19'0S e~ 60 'ljealv.£o/ MHdJc ~ maninov's Vespers in Massachusetts and Neil A. Kjos Music Company • 4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, CA 92117 Oregon. Minin recently was named NN9623C People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1972 he founded the Moscow Cham ber Choir, which under his direction has MASTER OF MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE developed into one of the world's finest Choral Conducting choirs. In his own words Minin describes Steven Edwards, Director of Choral Activities the Russian choral experience: "The choir Music DirectOJ; Symphony Chorus of New Orleans should not produce a single sound with out expressing a true thought and a true Philip Frohlllnayer, Coordinator of Vocal Studies feeling. The Russian style of choral per David Morelock, Director of Opera Theater formance is distinguished by a sensitivity Church Music for the depth, the profundity, and the content of the work." Harry McMurray, Coordinator of Church Music Studies University Organist
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adjudicator, and clinician. In 1967 he • Low-cost rental music for founded the Schola Cantorum de Caracas, choruses which won the fust prize at the 1974 Guido • Ideal for small choirs and d'Arezzo Competition. He also codirects small budgets the Orfeon Universitario Simon Bolivar • Over 700 titles (with Maria Guinand), and he conducts • Spans the Renaissance to the Pequenos Cantores, a children's choir of 20th Century the Schola Cantorum. Grau is Director of • Sacred and secular Choral Conducting Studies at the Univer • Large and small works sity of Musical Studies in Caracas and Di • Orchestra parts for many titles rector' of the Choral-Symphonic Division • Call Monday-Friday, of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra Sys 9-5 Eastern time tem. I:Ie has won the Jose Angel Montero National Composition Prize three times, and li~ received fust prize at the Fifteenth International Day for Choral Singing. DrinkerLibrary. ofCho~·al.Music Gran's choral ensembles appear on more The Fn:e,Library ofP~lade1phia· than thirty recordings. ·;190l.VIIleStJ;· Philadelphi~,.PA. 19163-1189 Maria Guinand .(215) 686"5~6~ 'ARfA GUINAND, born in Cara M cas in 1953, is founder of two pres tigious choirs, CantoriaAlberto Grau and Orfe6n Universitario Sim6n Bolivar. She also is Associate Conductor of the Schola Canto rum de Caracas. Guinand directs her choirs in a wide variety of repertoire including Latin American and twentieth century choral music as well as Gregorian chant. Choirs under Guinand's direction have received accolades at international CLINICIANS festivals; in 1989 the Cantoria Alberto Grau won six prizes at the Guido d'Arezzo Thomas Troeger (Chapel Speake1) Milburn Price (Choral) and Neuchatel Competitions. Guinand is Fred Bock (practice of Church Music) Al Travis (Organ) Dean of Postgraduate Musical Studies at Sim6n Bolivar University and Dean of SPECIAL FEATURES the Academic Programme of the Youth Orchestral Movement. She founded the * Hymn Festival at Broadway Baptist Church, led by AI Travis, Bach Academy and the Gregorian Chant featuring new I91-rank Casavant organ. Academy in Venezuela. She serves the In ternational Federation for Choral Music * Concerts by Wilshire Baptist Church (Dallas) Adult Choir, as Vice-President for Latin America, and Bill James, Director; and East Texas Baptist University Concert she edits the Musica de Latinoamerica Choir, James Moore, Director. Series published by earthsongs.
* Reading sessions led by A. Joseph King and Fred Bock. San Juan Children's Choir Registration Fee: $85.00 HE SAN JUAN Children's Choir, T founded by Evy Lucio C6rdova in For more information contact: A Joseph King 1966, comprises auditioned singers ranging School of Church Music, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in age from five to sixteen years. The chil P. O. Box 22000, Fort Worth, TX 76122 dren, who can sing in nine languages, are (817) 923-1921 ext. 3160 or FAX (817) 921-8762 exposed to choral repertoire from the Medi-
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San Juan Children's Chail' Evy Lucio GiI·dava eval to contemporary periods as well as in Rican, received a B.A. degree from Sacred Longy School of Music. Pablo Casals has ternational and Puerto Rican folk music. Heart University in Puerto Rico. She con said of Lucio: "She possesses a natural The choir has traveled to Asia, Central and tinued her musical studies at the Longy talent for teaching and inspiring children South America, and Europe, and it has per School of Music in Boston and at Pius X to sing on a high level of musicianship." formed in the U.S. in Carnegie Hall, Alice School of Liturgical Music in New York. Lucio has composed more than fifty Tully Hall, and the Kennedy Center. In July In 1974 she was invited to study at the children's songs and has transcribed and 1994 the Children's Choir represented institute of the Vienna Boys Choir. In 1984 translated numerous German, French, Puerto Rico at the World Conference of the she received a Ph.D. degree in music honoris and Italian songs into Spanish and En International Society of Music Education causa from St. John's University in New glish choral arrangements. in Tampa, Florida, and at the DeKalb Inter York, and in 1994 she was bestowed the national Choral Festival in Atlanta, Geor Distinguished Alumna Award from the -C]- gia. In April 1995 the choir participated, by invitation of the Cultural Institute of Co lornbia, in the Thirty-second Festival ofRe California State University, Los Angeles ligious Music in Popayan, the Thirteenth in cooperation with Festival of Classical Music in Santander de Quilichao, and the Festival of Contempo The Roger Wagner Center For Choral Studies rary Music in Bogota. That same month the Puerto Rican government named the choir its International Goodwill Emissaries. The San Juan Children's Choir participated, at the invitation of the Finnish Department at the of Education, in the 1995 Sympaatti Festi Abbey of St. Pierre de Solesmes, France val, and it made its Carnegie Hall debut in June 26 - July 15, 1997 1996, the choir's thittieth-anniversary year. Learn to sing chant from both the square Plus, two peaceful weeks in the French countryside living notation and the ancient 10th century at the Grand Hotel with its famous restaumnt. Travel Evy Lucio Cordova neumes under the direction of: . arrangements must be confirmed by March 21, 1997 for VY LUCIO CORDOVA founded lowest airfare. Fr. Columba Kelly, Chantmaster of St. For more information contact: Ethe San Juan Children's Choir in 1966 Meinrad's Archabbey and Dom Jean Dr. Robert Fowells with fourteen talented girls. Today the choir Claire, Chantmaster, and Dom California State University, Los Angeles Gregory Casprini, Organist at consists of more than one hundred and Music Dept., Room 145 Solesmes. 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032 fIfty boys and girls. Lucio, a native Puerto (213) 343-4060 FAX (213) 343-2670
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Gian Carlo Menotti's Milan. Following the death of his father, Jacob's Prayer his mother took him to the U.S. and A 1997 Raymond W. Brock Memorial enrolled him at the Curtis Institute of Commissioned Composition Music in Philadelphia, where he studied IAN CARLO MENOTTI wrote composition under Rosario Scalero. G Jacob's Prayer for mixed chorus and Menotti's first mature work, Amelia Goes orchestra. He composed the text himself to the Ball, a one-act opera buffa, was (as he has done for nearly all his vocal, premiered in 1937. The Consul, Menotti's choral, and operatic works), loosely ren first full-length work, won both the dering the scene where Jacob wrestles with Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama the nameless angel (Genesis 32:23-33). Critics Circle Award in 1950; three years Menotti, who will turn eighty-six in July, later he received a second Pulitzer Prize wanted a text that would depict the for The Saint ofBleecker Street. Menotti is struggle of life against absolute darkness: best-known for the Christmas classic Amahl and the Night Visitors, composed As sunlight darkened, the obscured in 1951 for NBC television. In 1958 he angel appeared and I was challenged. All founded the Festival of Two Worlds in night long I wrestled wirh him. Not a Spoleto, Italy. He directed the festival's word was said as our brearhs mingled and U.S. counterpart, established in 1977 in our limbs entwined. Charleston, South Carolina, until his ap How easy it would have been to lie pointment in 1993 as Director of the Gian Carlo Menotti vanquished under his beating wings. But Rome Opera. Menotti's For the Death of I fought. I fought all night. I knew rhat Orpheus (for tenor solo, chorus, and or only at dawn God's face would be re chestra) was premiered in 1990 by the Burial Service; and No.6, "Holy Is the vealed to me and that the light oflife like Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Cho True Light," from the Salisbury Diurnal. a surging wave would again enfold me. I rus with Robert Shaw conducting. In For twelve years Howells refused to allow knew rhat God's face would not shine on 1984, Menotti received the Kennedy Cen any performances of the work It was not me ifI surrendered. ter Honor for lifetime achievement in the until 1950, at the request of Ralph I did not lose or win, but I was arts, and Musical America named him Vaughan Williams, that Howells permit wounded by the glory of God, and by 1991 Musician of the Year. (An interview ted it to be performed at the Three Choirs rhis wound I am spurred and guided to with Menotti will appear in the March Festival in Worcester. Hymnus paradisi is ward rhe beckoning light. 1997 issue of the Choraljournal.) one of the most loved works in the cho God, let me not die in darkness, but ral/orchestal repertoire. A performance of let me be swept away toward rhe celestial the work will follow the world premiere harbor by love's bright waves. Amen. Herbert Howells's of Menotti's Jacob's Prayel: Hymnus paradisi The San Diego Chamber Orchestra, un N 1934, Michael Kendrick Howells, der the direction of Roger Melone, will I son of English composer Herbert San Diego be joined by the Oklahoma State Univer Howells (1892-1983), died of illness (that Chamber Orchestra sity Concert Chorale, the Texas Christian same year Howells's friend Sir Edward HE SAN DIEGO Chamber Orches University Concert Chorale, and the Uni Elgar also passed away). Howells's intense T tra, established in 1984, comprises versity ofWisconsin-Eau Claire Concert grief forced him to seek refuge in com thirty-five to forty professional musicians Choir in performing the world premiere posing. The result was Hymnus paradisi, drawn primarily from the San Diego and of Menotti's Jacob's Prayel: completed in 1938. Composed for so Los Angeles areas. The musicians regu prano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus, larly perform with major ensembles and Gian Carlo Menotti and orchestra, the work is in six move hold degrees from prestigious universities IAN CARLO MENOTTI, born on ments: No.1, "Preludio" (instrumental); and conservatories. The American Sym G July 7, 1911, in Cadegliano, Italy, No.2, "Requiem aeternam" from the phony Orchestra League has referred to began composing at age seven under the Latin Requiem; No.3, "The Lord Is My the Chamber Orchestra as "among the guidance of his mother; four years later Shepherd," (Psalm 23); No.4, "Sanctus" nation's top chamber orchestras." Many he wrote his first opera, The Death of ("I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" and "Hymnus world-renowned artists have performed Pierrot. His formal musical training be paradisi" [Psalm 121]); No.5, "1 Heard a with the orchestra, including Jean-Pierre gan in 1923 at the Verdi Conservatory in Voice from Heaven," from the Anglican Rampal, Sherrill Milnes, Lorin Hollander,
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Sail Diego Chamber Orchestra Roger Melolle
Mischa Dichter, Roberta Peters, Eugenia and Angel Romero, Robert McDuffie, and Its' recording of music by British com Zuckerman, Jaime Laredo, Robert Mer Barry Tuckwell. The Chamber Orchestra poser Malcolm Arnold won Michael Fine rill, Leonard Pennario, Eugene Istomin, has produced seven recordings, including a Grammy Award for Best Classical Pro Bella Davidovich, Marvis Martin, Pepe three with KOCH International Classics. ducer in 1993. Its recordings have been broadcast twice over National Public Ra dio. The San Diego Chamber Orchestra is led by Donald Barra, Music Director and Conductor.
acfea Roger Melone Tour Consultants OGER MELONE was named Asso Perfonning ArtsTours Since 1955 R. ciate Conductor and Choral Di rector of the New Mexico Symphony In Pursuit of Choral Excellence Orchestra in 1983. He conducts sub scr1ption, pops, and children's concerts, ACFEA is proud to be associated with the following international and he conceived and developed the choral festivals, recognized for their high standards and integrity: symphony's successful chamber orches tra series. Specializing in conducting 1998 opera, Melone held posts with the San April RencontresChorales Internationales Montreaux, Switzerland Antonio Symphony Orchestra and May Cork International Choral Festival Cork, Ireland Grand Opera, and he has guest con June Florilege Vocale de Tours Choral Competition Tours, France ducted opera companies in Detroit, July Llangollen International Eisteddfod Llangollen, Wales Memphis, and Mexico City. Melone has International Competition for Choirs Spittal, Austria appeared with orchestras throughout the Bela Bart6k.International Choir Contest Debrecen, Hungary U.S., most recently conducting the Lake International Contest of Choral Singing Gorizia, Italy International Choral Festival Tallinn, Estonia Forest Symphony in Chicago and the Voices in the City Birmingham, England Illinois Chamber Symphony in St. August Aberdeen International Youth Festival Aberdeen, Scotland Charles, Illinois. In 1994 he guest con ducted the Hawaiian Classic Choral Fes To discuss participation for your choir, please contact: tival in Honolulu, and that same year 1508 Lincoln Ave. Suite A, San Rafael, CA 94901 he received the Albuquerque Arts Alli (800) 886-2055 (415) 453-6619 Fax (415) 453-6725 ance Bravo Award for excellence in the arts. Melone attended Del Mar Col Offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, London, lege, Corpus Christi, Texas, where he Venice, Prague, Berlin, Moscow, St Petersburg, Canberra studied with Ronald Shirey, and he con-
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tinued his studies with B. R. Henson at Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas. He also studied Baroque perfor mance practice and harpsichord with Laurette Goldberg in San Francisco and opera conducting with Victor Ales sandro. Melone is listed in Who's Who in American Music and the International Who's Who in Music, and he has re corded a choral album for Telarc.
Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale HE OKLAHOMA State University T Concert Chorale comprises fifty-six undergraduate singers. It performed for ACDA Southwestern Division Conven tions in 1988, 1990, and 1994, and it was featured on the program of the 1992 MENC National Convention in New Or leans. The Concert Chorale has toured throughout Europe and the Southwest ern U.S. During the past ten years it has developed a significant reputation for its performances of contemporary choral lit erature, especially promoting new choral music by American composers.
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Texas Christian University 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994, and 1996. It in 1994, and in April 1997 it will ap Concert Chorale also performed at the 1985 ACDA Na pear at the MTNA National Conven HE TEXAS CHRISTIAN Univer tional Convention in Salt Lal{e City. tion in Dallas. The Chorale has per T. sity Chorale, founded by Ronald The Concert Chorale has appeared at formed with the Ft. Worth Symphony Shirey in 1976, appeared at ACDA numerous Texas Music Educators Asso Orchestra in Bach's B-Minor Mass and Southwestern Division Conventions in ciation state conventions, most recently Mozart's C-Minor Mass and with the Oklahoma Symphony under Herrera de la Fuente. Ronald Shirey DONALD SHIREY holds two degrees L'Vrom the University of Tulsa. He was Chorus Director for the Dallas Sym phony Orchestra from 1983 to 1993, establishing its repu tation among major symphony choruses and preparing it for performances with renowned conductors such as Robert Shaw, Eduardo Mata, Jerzy Semkow, and John Nelson. Shirey prepared more than forty different major choral/orchestral works and conducted several concerts with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has Texas Christian Univel"Sity Concel·t Chorale guest conducted numerous all-state and all-region choirs in North Dakota, New Mexico, Missouri, North Carolina, Penn sylvania, and Michigan.
University of Wisconsin ~.J~~. Eau Claire Concert Choir HE CONCERT CHOIR, under the T direction of Gary R. Schwartzhoff, NANCY TELFER is one of seven choral ensembles at the in San Diego University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (recognized as "Wisconsin's Singing Tuesday, March 4, 1997 University"). It has traveled to Europe 5:00 p.m. on six concert tours, most recently per forming at Westminster Abbey and the Cathedral of Notre Dame on its 1994 Call1-800-897-KJOS tour. The Concert Choir performed at for information and reservations the 1992 Wisconsin Music Educators Association State Convention, and it vS appeared at the 1996 ACDA North IV Central Division Convention in Lin
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JANUARY 1997 PAGE 37 Choir Risers NATIONAL HONOR CHOIRS
1997 ACDA National Children's Honor Choir CDA PRESENTED its first National A Honor Choir, organized by Doreen Rao and conducted by Jean Ashworth Bartle, at the 1983 National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The San Diego Convention will present ACDA's fourth National Children's Honor Choir. Under the direction of Anton Armstrong, the 1997 National Children's Honor Choir, comprising children ages ten to sixteen from across the U.S., will perform a var ied repertoire demonstrating the musical expressiveness of children singers. Anton Armstrong NTON ARMSTRONG is Harry R. A and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Min nesota, and Conductor of the St. Olaf Choir. He received a bachelor's degree from Anton A171zstrong Ear/Rivers St. Olaf College, the M.M. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and a D .M.A. degree from ers will lead the choir in a variety of reper Bernstein's Mass and the Cincinnati pre Michigan State University, East Lansing. toire that demonstrates the high level of miere of J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio. He edits choral series for Augsburg-For artistry that community choirs achieve. Rivers, a frequent guest conductor, lec tress and earthsongs. Armstrong, widely turer, and clinician, holds B.M.E. and recognized for his work with youth and Earl Rivers M.M. degrees in choral conducting from children's choirs, served on the summer ARL RIVERS is Professor of Music, Indiana University, and a D.M.A. degree faculty of the American Boychoir School EHead of the Division of Ensembles in conducting from the University of Cin for more than twenty years. He currently and Conducting, and Director of Choral cinnati. He is a member of CHORUS is a member of the Board ofTrustees of the Studies at the University of Cincinnati Col AMERICA'S Board of Directors. American Boychoir School and President lege-Conservatory of Music, where he has of the Board of Directors of Choristers been a faculty member since 1973. He 1997 ACDA National Guild. He is active on the international oversees one of the country's top graduate level as a guest conductor and lecturer. In programs in choral conducting. Since 1974 Junior High School August 1996 he served as a clinician at the he has served as Director of Music at Knox Honor Choir Fourth World Symposium on Choral Mu Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, HE 1997 National Junior High sic held in Sydney, Australia. During 1997 and he is completing his ninth season as T School Honor Choir will be ACDA's he will guest conduct all-state choirs in Music Director of the Vocal Arts Ensemble fourth national honor choir at the junior Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and of Cincinnati, a twenty-four-voice profes high/middle school level. ACDA's first South Dakota as well as the MENC All sional chorus. His choirs have toured Eu honor choir for this age group appeared Eastern Chorus in Baltimore, Maryland. rope and the former Soviet Union, recorded at the 1985 National Convention in Salt for the Rockefeller Foundation's USA Bi Lake City. It was organized by Nancy centennial American Music Project, been Cox, who will also conduct the 1997 Jun 1997 ACDA National heard nationally on CHORUS AMERICA'S The ior High School Honor Choir. Community Honor Choir First Art radio series, appeared with the ARL RIVERS will conduct ACDA's Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and re Nancy Cox Efirst National Community Honor ceived acclaimed for performances at na ANCY cox, a native of Altus, Choir, which will comprise approximately tional and division conventions of ACDA N Oklahoma, has taught vocal music two hundred adult singers from a variety and MENC. He conducted the West Coast at the junior high and middle school lev of community choirs across the U.S. Riv- premiere in Los Angeles of Leonard els for the past thirty years. She currently
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teaches at Altus Junior High School. Her honor choirs, and teacher workshops in ing served as President, Chair of the R&S choirs have performed at the Oklahoma Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, New Committee on Junior High School Music Educators Association state con Mexico, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Illi Choirs, and newsletter editor. She also vention, three ACDA division conven nois, California, Montana, Nevada, has served ACDA as National Chair of tions, and the 1984 MENC National Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. Cox has the R&S Committee on Junior High Convention in Chicago. She has served played a very active role in the Okla School Choirs. She conducted the 1992 as a junior high specialist for festivals, homa Choral Directors Association, hav- ACDA Western Division and the 1994
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PAGE 40 CHORAL JOURNAL NATIONAL HONOR CHOIRS OBERLIN Summer 1997 ACDA Southwestern Division Junior INSTITUTE OF VOCAL High Honor Choirs. Cox organized the PERFORMANCE PEDAGOGY first ACDA National Junior High School Honor Choir, which performed in Salt July 12 - 19 Lake City in 1985. That same year Richard Miller, Director OCDA presented her with the Director The Institute of Vocal Performance Pedagogy offers of Distinction Award. a unique opportunity for intensive study of technical and practical aspects of performance for teachers of singing, 1997 ACDA National professional singers, and college-age voice students. Two-Year College Honor Choir "\.VTILLIAM B. HATCHER will con W duct the 1997 National Two-Year College Honor Choir. This will be ACDA's second presentation of a national honor choir for singers in community and two-year college choirs. The 1997 Two-Year College Honor Choir's reper toire will be decidedly international and feature works by three contemporary American choral composers. William B. Hatcher "\.VTILLIAM B. HATCHER has served W as Director of Choral Activities at Systematic Vocal Technique covers breath management, vocal onset, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, since agility, sostenuto, vowel definition and modification, vocal registration, the 1988. He directs the doctoral and even scale, range extension and dynamic control. master's degree programs in choral con ducting and pedagogy, conducts Kan Guest lectures and recitals torei and the University Choir, and often conducts opera productions. He was Comments from past participants: ACDA National President from 1991 to "Excellent! Nowhere else have I found such intensive sessions packed with 1993, chairing the 1991 ACDANational information. The application of technique in masterclass is invaluable. " Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. In No "I can not say how much I was helped as a teachel: It revolutionized my vember 1996 the University of Iowa voice studio and choral groups. " Kantorei participated at the International Choral Competition in Tolosa, Spain, "I can think of no more important investmentfor the voice teacher and in 1994 it was one of only five choirs pelformer than this Institute!" chosen to participate in the World Cho ral Festival in Seoul, Korea. The Kantorei "I learned more in one week about singing, at a cost of $300 than I did in also performed at the 1993 ACDA Na my formal musical education at a cost of $30,0001" tional Convention in San Antonio, Texas. "I consider the Institute to be the most valuable learning experiences that I Hatcher was Coordinator and Associate have ever had as a student. " Director of the one-thousand-voice Olympic Honor Chorus, which sang for "Fascinating and velY satisfying finally to get solid, intelligent answers to an estimated television audience of two burning questions!" billion during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Summer Olym pics in Los Angeles. Hatcher received For a detailed brochure, contact: Office of Outreach Programs, the M.M. degree from the University of Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 Nebraska, Lincoln, and has pursued ad 216-775-8044 ditional graduate study at the University
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 41 JACOB AVSHALOMOV NATIONAL HONOR CHOIRS After mom 0' ~olmn of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has published choral arrangements as came these Choral Works well as articles on choral conducting, with Concertante Instruments and he is a frequent clinician, adjudica tor, festival conductor, and masterclass ARCANA - Images from Tarot teacher. w. Trumpet, Horn, Bassoon & Trombone 14' HIS FLUID ARIA God Be with Us with Bass Clarinet 9' A 1997 Raymond W. Brock Memorial SONGS FROM THE GOLIARDS Commissioned Composition With Solo Cello 15' NE OF THE TWO 1997 Ray THE MOST TRIUMPHANT BIRD O mond W. Brock commissioned with Viola & Piano 14' compositions, God Be with Us, by SONGS IN SEASON Stephen Paulus, is scored for mixed cho with Contrabass & Piano 23' rus, timpani, percussion, and piano. The text comes from the collection Carmina PROVERBS OF HELL gadelica (Gaelic songs), a grouping of w. Marimba, Light Percussion 10' centuries-old hymns and incantations MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE from the Scottish Highlands collected w. Clarinet, Trumpet, 2 horns, B. by Alexander Carmichael during the lat Trombone & Percussion 6' ter half of the nineteenth century. These PRAISES FROM THE religious texts combine a strange blend CORNERS OF THE EARTH of pagan and Christian imagery and are with Organ & 3 Percussion 15' impressive for their simplicity and raw Stephen Paulus With Orchestra power. In reading through this collec CANTATA: HOW LONG 0 tion, Paulus was inspired by the poem LORD "God Be with Us" for its short phrases, New Classic Singers (Chicago), the En with Baritone & Organ 15' directness, and earnest plea. At the end semble Singers of the Plymourh Music INSCRIPTIONS AT THE of the National Honor Choir session, Series (Minneapolis), the Paul Hill Cho CITY OF BRASS the Community Honor Choir will join rale, and the Oregon Repertory Sing with Narrator 31' the Two-Year College Honor Choir on ers. Paulus's choral works have been CITY UPON A HILL stage in the premiere of Paulus's work, recorded on CD, including Voices with w. Narrator & Bell Ringers 26' conducted by William B. Hatcher. the Pacific Chorale (Albany Records), Echoes between the Silent Peaks with the GLORIOUS TH'ASSEMBLED Stephen Paulus Oregon Repertory Singers (KOCH), FIRES w. Boy Soprano 32' TEPHEN PAULUS has written and Four Preludes on Playthings of the A·Cappella Sninety works for chorus, thirty Wind with the Dale Warland Singers WONDERS 5'. works for orchestra, five operas, and (American Composers Forum Record YOUR VALENTINE! numerous chamber works. He has been ings). His Songs ofLi Po, commissioned Duet - Alto & Tenor 3' Composer in Residence for the Dale for the twenty-fifth-anniversary season Warland Singers, the Atlanta Symphony of the Dale Warland Singers, will be SAMPLER CASSETTE Orchestra (under Robert Shaw and Yoel premiered in March 1997. Upcoming AVAILABLE Levi), and the Minnesota Orchestra recordings include Meditations ofLi Po (under Sir Neville Marriner and Edo de with the New York Concert Singers and Waart). His works have been performed Visions from Hildegard with the Choral by the Dale Warland Singers, the Rob Arts Society of Philadelphia. Paulus has HOWLer 'PRCSS ert Shaw Festival Singers, the Santa Fe served on the ASCAP Board of Direc Desert Chorale, the Los Angeles Master tors since 1990. (An interview with 2741 S.W. Fairview Blvd. Chorale, the William Ferris Chorale, Paulus will appear in the March 1997 Portland, Oregon, 97201 the New York Concert Singers, the Pa issue of the Choral Journal.) (503) 227~6919 cific Chorale of Orange County, the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, the -CJ-
PAGE 42 CHORAL JOURNAL Building Bridges Achieving Growth and Self-Esteem through Choral Singing
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SAB chorus, piano Old Fox Wassail OCTB6888 ...... ~1.50 arranged by Stephen Hatfield The tune of the Old Fox Wassail is an ancient one, associated with midwinter rituals from northern Europe to MUSIC OF STEPHEN HATFIELD the Balkans, and can be performed by any combination of choral forces. The Building Bridges series also features the music of Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield who is recognized as two-part chorus, a cappella a leader in multiculturalism and musical folklore. OCTB6852 ...... Jl.20 Carol of the Ladder by Stephen Hatfield This work is suitable for any time of the year and offers For a free perusal copy of any of the above selections, many opportunities for phrasing, blending, word painting simply retum a copy of this ad along with your name and and for creating mood and texture. address. The rest is on us! Offer good for choral octavos listed only. All prices in US dollars. SAB, a cappella OCTB6851 ...... ~1.20
Crimson, Ivory, Aquamarine by Stephen Hatfield Crimson, Ivory, Aquamarine takes the red, white, and blue of American culture and shifts the color values to create I new blends of Blues, Tex Mex, First Nations chant, and Mardi Gras Creole with a celebratory text from Shakespeare's The Tempest. ! B®ClSE¥&hlAWKES two-part chorus, a cappella I OCTB6849 ...... ~1.20 Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. Attn: Marketing Department CME 52 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003-7102 Bradley L Almquist Noel G0emanne Michael Martin Steven Sametz Linda Allen Anderson James M. Gossler Peter Mathews Noe Sanchez Violet Archer Dale Grotenhuis James McCray Hugh D. Sanders Vaclovas Augustinas John McDowell Janet Scarcella Denise Bacon DiClumu.
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Austin Peay State University dition from more than twelve thousand Chamber Singers students, has developed a history of mu HE AUSTIN PEAY State Univer sical excellence and is noted for its abil T sity Chamber Singers was established ity to sing a wide range of musical styles. by George Mabry in 1971. The singers, In the past three years, the choir has undergraduate and graduate students cho sung for the Texas Music Educators As sen by audition, come from all areas of sociation, the Texoma Region Conven campus life. The Chamber Singers is one tion of the National Association of of the most active performing organiza Teachers of Singing, the Baptist General tions at Austin Peay and has garnered Convention of Texas, and the South acclaim for tasteful and stylistic perfor western Division Convention of the Col mance of music from the sixteenth to the lege Band Directors Association. twentieth centuries. The ensemble has performed for regional and national con Donald Bailey ventions ofMENC and ACDA. In addi ONALD BAILEY is Director of tion to performing annual concerts on D Choral Activities and Mary Gibbs Austill Peay State University Chamber Sillgers campus, the Chamber Singers presents a Christmas madrigal feast and tours each spnng. George L. Mabry EORGE L. MABRY, Professor of G Music and Director of the Center for the Creative Arts, has been Director of Choral Activities at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, since 1971. He graduated from Florida State University and holds M.M. and Ph.D. de grees in music from the George Peabody College for Teachers Baylol' Ulliversity A Cappella Choir at Vanderbilt Univer sity, Nashville, Ten nessee. Mabry is an active choral clinician and festival adjudicator, and he has con ducted all-state choirs in Virginia and Kentucky. He is a published composer llrn Annual Conffrln(,imrt~Ric~Muiiimi \ .' :':{, ~,' , : ~:.,' ,,:-. ',:, -': - _ - spon~ored by ! and arranger. In 1983, Mabry was hon Fellowship of Americqn~ap,tis~I\llusicians: ored as the first Austin Peay faculty mem \ '. .•....• ," . ,. at ber to receive both the Distinguished Green Lake Coll(eren~~CenteriGreen LqkE!i WI Professor Award and the Richard M. Clinicians \ .,' ,,'. . July 19- 26/1997 i Anton Armstrong - Adult & Youd;1 Choral ,1 Hawkins Award for scholarly and creative Andre Thomas - Adult & Youth Ch·oral.'· ': achievement. Helen Kemp - Children's Choral V I John Ferguson - Organ \ :1 Hart Morris - Handbells Baylor University Tim McGarvey - Instrumental \ \-~~,> A Cappella Choir Bob Roberts - Worship ~I HE A CAPPELLA CHOIR is the Housing Information V; R~~ist",iitinl~formatio~, I premier choral organization of seven Guest Services \,.' " _, :. - . "_ FABM 1 T \: ,;1600 Tall Tree Drivel Green Lake Conference Center choirs at Baylor Universtiy, Waco, Texas. Green Lake, WI 54941 \ . Trenton, MI.48183 . (800) 558-8898 E-Mail:·fbriIl16@aoLcom ,I The seventy-voice choir, selected by au- \ - '" I
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Jones Professor ofMu Houghton, New York; and Eastern New sic at Baylor Univer Mexico University, Portales. Active as a sity. This performance clinician and guest conductor, he most re will mark his third ap cently conducted all-state choirs in Ala pearance at an ACDA bama, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee, national convention. and Texas. Bailey's choirs have performed with major orchestras in Buffalo and Rochester, New Cherry Creek High School York; Phoenix, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Girls' 21 Mexico; and El Paso and Lubbock, Texas. IRLS' 21, one of eight choirs at Prior to coming to Baylor University in G Cherry Creek High School, Engle 1993, he was Director of Choirs at Ari wood, Colorado, consists of forty-four zona State University, Tempe; Texas Tech auditioned sophomores, juniors, and se University, Lubbock; Houghton College, niors who rehearse daily. Girls' 21 per formed at the 1989 ACDA National Convention in Phoenix, Arizona; the 1982, 1986, and 1991 ACDA South- ChenyCmk High School Girls' 21 western Division Conventions; the 1984 MENC National Convention in Chi cago; the 1979 MENC Southwestern Regional Convention; and the 1981, 1985, 1988, 1993, and 1996 Colorado MUSIC Music Educators Association State Con TOURS INC. ventions. Its spring tours have included Montreal, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle, Savannah, and Charleston. Most recently the choir was QUALITY privileged to sing at the Harvard Festival INTERNATIONAL of Women's Choruses. CONCERT TOURS Charlotte Adams at HARLOTTE ADAMS holds a B.A. REASONABLE PRICES Cdegree from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and the M.M. degree from Indiana University. Her video, Daily Workout for a Beauti CIIl1'e l!ischer and Friends fol Voice, is published Call or write today in the Charlene Arch ibeque Choral Series. Tennessee Arts Academy and at national, for our unique In 1984, Colorado division, and state conventions of ACDA personalized service! ACDA presented her andMENC. with the Choral Di rector of the Year Award. She has con Clare Fischer and Friends ducted all-state and honor choirs in Cali LARE FISCHER is a veteran studio MARK FOSTER fornia, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Cmusician and composer whose tal Michigan, and Wyoming as well as the ent spans classical, jazz, and popular idi MUSIC TOURS 1994 ACDA North Central Division oms. He received a master's degree in ~ (800) 869-1406 Women's Honor Choir. In April 1997 composition from Michigan State Uni she will conduct the Tennessee Women's versitY, East Lansing, after which he trav P.O. Box 2760, Santa Clara All-State Choir. Adams has presented clin eled for five years with the Hi-Lo's as a California 95055-2760 ics on vocal-development technique at the pianist-conductor. Fischer has received
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two Grammy Awards, one in 1981 for his album Salsa Picante Plus 2+2, the other in 1986 for Free Fall. Fischer has spent recent years as a jazz educator, pia nist, and clinician throughout Europe and the U.S. He has written music for many jazz artists including Dizzie Gillespie, George Shearing, and Diane Schuur as well as pop singers such as Tori Amos, Paul McCartney, and Michael Jackson.
Foothill High School Chamber Singers HE TWENTY-SIX-VOICE Cham T ber Singers ofFoothill High School, Balcersfield, California, is the premier Foothill High School Chamber Singers choir of six ensembles at the school. Since 1993 it has quickly acquired a reputa tion for choral excellence. It has been invited to sing at numerous festivals throughout California, and it performed at the 1995 California Music Educators Association State Convention. In addi tion, the Chamber Singers performed at the 1996 ACDA Western Division Stu dent Symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada. APRI L 17-20,1997 This will be the choir's first appearance A four-day celebration honoring at an ACDA national convention and the work of two great Romanian the second choral convention experience musicians - George Enescu, in the school's history. and his protege, Dinu Lipatti Jeffrey Brookey Events will be held on the Central EFFREY BROOKEY, who holds his College campus in Pella, Iowa, and Jfirst teaching position, is in his fourth at the Civic Center in Des Moines year as Director of Choral Music at Foot with performances by: hill High School, Balcersfield, California. The Des Moines Symphony, Joseph He earned a B.M. de Giunta, conductor; Central College gree from Chapman music faculty members; the Pioneer University, Orange, String Quartet 'and special guests Lord California, receiving Yehudi Menuhin, Lory Wallfisch, the first honors rec Noel Malcolm, Ilinca Dumitrescu, ognition in conduct ing under William Horia Mihail, Sherban Lupu, Hall. Brookey also has Parry Karp, and Howard Karp conducted under the Seating for campus events is limited. supervision of Roger Wagner, Joseph For tickets and more information, Plummerfelt, Steven Kikugawa, and Dan please contact the Department of Earl. Brookey is Music Director ofWesley Music at Central College, United Methodist Church, Bakersfield, and he has guest conducted area honor 515-628-5236. choirs.
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Fort Zumwalt North Middle School Eighth-grade Concert Choir HE CHORAl PROGRAM at Fort T Zumwalt North Middle School, O'Fallon, Missouri, has rapidly gained na tional and international recognition for its precise and dear treble voicing and its unique discipline structure,. Since 1993 the non auditioned choral program, which consists of a seventh- and an eighth-grade choir, has won thirty-one trophies and plaques as well as four grand-champion sweepstakes awards, In July 1996 the choirs placed fourth in the Youth Choir Competition in Llangollen, Wales, The choirs have performed at the 1995 Missouri Music Educators Associa tion State Convention and at the 1996 MENC National Convention in Las Vegas, Fort Zumwalt North Middle School Eighth-grade Conce/'t Choir
For more than a century, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been at the forefront of activities in the choral profession. Come hear for yourself! The VI Chorale, under the direction of Fred Stoltzfus, will perform at the ACDA National Convention on Friday, March 7,1997, at 4:20 P.M. and 7:05 P.M. at Copley Symphony Hall in d9wntown San Diego.
If you would like additional information concerning graduate or undergraduate degree programs in choral music at Illinois, or a brochure concerning the 22nd annual Classical Music Festival (featuring the music of Haydn, Schubert, and Brahms) in EisenstadtlVienna, Austria in August 1997, please contact
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Gregory S. LeSan REGORY S. LeSAN received a G B.M.E. degree in instrumental music from Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, and the M.M.E. degree in wood wind performance in 1985 from Southeast Missouri State Univer sity, Cape Girardeau. From 1989 to 1992 he served as Director of the University Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Women's Jazz Choir, and Mixed Show Choir at Purdue Univer Goldell West High School Trailblazer Concert Chob' sity, Lafayette, Indiana. In 1992, LeSan be came Director and General Music Instructor for grades six through eight at Fort Zumwalt vention in Phoenix, TUXEDO DISCOUNT North Middle School. He recendy was Arizona. Under his di AMERICA'S LARGEST NEW AND USED transferred to North High School but will rection choral groups FORMAL WEAR DEALER return twice weekly for after-school rehears from Golden West SPECIALIZING IN LARGE GROUPS als to prepare the Eighth-grade Choir for its have performed at sev Complete Seven-piece Tuxedos convention performance. He is assisted by eral ACDA and Cali From $25.00 North Middle School's new director, Beth fornia Music Educa Please call for brochure and price list. Enlow-Fritz. tors Association state TELEPHONE (619) 299-9065 conventions. The Golden West High FAX (619) 299-3252 School Chamber Singers performed at the 3770 HANCOCK ST, STE F Golden West High School 1995 ACDA National Convention in I SAN DIEGO, CA 92110 Trailblazer Concert Choir Washington, D.C. I HE EIGHTY-VOICE Trailblazer T Concert Choir, one offive ensembles in a choral program involv:ing more than three hundred students at Golden West High School, Visalia, California, has re Th~erican Boychoir ceived consecutive superior ratings at Cali fornia Music Educators Association festivals since 1983. It has performed ex tensively for civic groups, music festivals, and competitions in Tulare County and throughout California. The Trailblazer Concert Choir placed second at the 1995 Golden State Choral Competition III Santa Rosa, California. Jeffery A. Seaward EFFREY A. SEAWARD has been Di Hear The American Boychoir on Angel Records Jrector of Vocal Music at Golden West -HYMN, BY REQUEST & CAROL High School since 1981. He received a B.A. degree in voice and clarinet and the Hear The American Boychoir live in your home town M.M. degree in choral conducting from - Five domestic concern tours in 1997-98 California State University, Fresno. He sang To book a concert or for information call our concert office tenor with the California Choral Com Phone: 609924-5858 - ext. 12 Fax: 609924-5812 panyat the 1991 ACDA National Con- Please stop by our booth at the ACDA San Diego Convention
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Indianapolis Children's Choir HE INDIANAPOLIS Children's T Choir, founded by Artistic Direc tor Henry Leck in 1986, comprises more than 850 auditioned singers ages nine to eighteen in twelve choirs. It performed for the 1989 and 1993 ACDA National Indianapolis Children's Choir L.A. Jazz Choil' Conventions, the 1988 and 1994 MENC National Conventions, the 1993 Organization of American Kodily Edu cators National Convention, and the IRENE COREY DESIGN ASSOCIATES 1993 American Orff-SchulwerkAssocia tion National Convention. It regularly (214) 821-9633 ~ FAX (214) 821-9651 performs with the Indianapolis Sym phony, and it has recorded Rejoice, with Brass and Voice (with the Canadian Brass) SATIN SCULPTURED ANGEL WINGS rr.'-~""" custom made to order. and Henry Purcell's Come Ye Sons 0/ Art and Benjamin Britten's Ceremony o/Car BIBLICAL PATTERN PACKAGE ols (VAl label, 1996). provides full scale patterns with complete instructions for over twenty costumes. Henry Leek Send by FAX or mail for catalog with details or ENRY LECK is Associate Professor call today for free consultation on your pageant needs. H and Director of Choral Activities at Christmas orders taken until 10-11-96 Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, Easter orders taken until 2-14-97 where he conducts the Chorale and teaches conducting and music education classes. He has con ducted honor choirs in ACDA Southern, North Central, and Northwestern Divi sions. He is Music Di rector of the Central European Children's Festival. In 1996, Leck conducted the OAKE National Children's Honor Choir and the Mor mon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City. In 1996 he also conducted the Curso Professional Positi01ls: Nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale announces professional openings June 22 Internacional de Regencia Coral in Rio to August 10, 1997. Led by founder Lawrence Bandfield and Dr. Dennis Shrock, Director of Choral Activities at the University of Oklahoma, the ensemble de Janiero, Brazil. Leck edits two choral will sing six great choral works.Auditions may be on tape or in person. series, one published by Plymouth Music If you wish to audition at the ACDA National Convention, please respond by February 28, 1996. If your audition will be on tape, you must respond and the other by Colla Voce. by March 12, 1996. App"ellticesbips: A two-week apprenticeship for a dozen select undergraduates led by Dr. Shrock will be held July 28 to August 9. Apprentices will sing the Mozart Requiem with the full ensemble, L.A. Jazz Choir receive skill and vocal coaching, and perform a short apprentice recital. Inquiries must be received by March 21, 1996. HE LATE jazz journalist Leonard C01ltact: T Feather described the sound of the L.A. Lawrence Bandfield, Music Director • Santa Fe Desert Chorale Jazz Choir as "a flawless blend." Its first DENNIS SH ROCK 219 Shelby Street· po Box 2813 • Santa Fe, NM 87504-2813 Phone 505-988·2282 • Fax 505·988-7522 album, Listen, an audiophile release on the Mobile Fidelity label, was nominated for a
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Grammy Award in 1983. Two years later From All Sides, originally released on the Pausa label, was also nominated for a Grammy Award and later released on CD by Jazz Alliance. The L.A. Jazz Choir fre quently has performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl, and it has toured as far east as Montreaux, Switzerland, and as far west as Honolulu, Hawaii. James Martin High School Chorale Gerald Eskelin ERALD ESKELIN has been a con G ductor, singer, composer, writer, teacher, and consultant for five decades. He graduated from Florida Southern College, Lakeland, and he earned gradu ate degrees from In diana University. He taught at Pierce Col lege, Tacoma, Wash ington, for twenty five years as well as at the University of Southern California, and the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. He fre Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers quently has served as an expert witness on musical matters. Eskelin's book Lies My Music Teache7' Told Me is a light Music Educators Association Convention hearted expose of some suspicious yet in San Antonio, Texas. Albert McNeil widely held musical concepts. He re Jubilee Singers cently completed The Sounds ofMusic: Randy Jordan HE ALBERT McNEIL Jubilee Sing Perception and Notation, a self-published ANDY JORDAN has taught choral T ers, based in Los Angeles, consists of textbook. Rmusic in public secondary schools for a resident group of thirty-four singers and twenty-one years. He holds a B.M.E. de a traveling group offourteen. In its thirty gree from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, year existence it has presented more than J ames Martin High School and the M.M.E. degree three thousand concerts and garnered in- Chorale from the University of HE NINETY-VOICE Martin Cho North Texas, Denton. rale, composed of auditioned sopho Martin High School .' EARN :EX'J'!RA INCOME • T ! ! mores, juniors, and seniors, is the varsity choirs under his direc mixed choir from James Martin High tion have received con Earn $200-500 weekly mailing phone cards. For information send a self School, Arlington, Texas. The choral de sistent sweepstakes and addressed stamped envelope to: partment offers 270 students seven perform superior racings in Uni Inc., P.O. Box 0887, Miami, FL33164. ing ensembles including an auditioned show versity Interscholastic choir and chamber choir. Martin choirs have League competitions. Jordan is the senior consistently received high racings at Univer choral director at St. Barnabas United Meth sacred sity Interscholastic League concerts and odist Church, Arlington, Texas. He is a sight-reading competitions, and they have member ofACDA, the Texas Choral Direc v\lilla1n won more than twenty-five sweepstakes tors Association, the Texas Music Educators Canada's finest choils Singing the beautiful, ethereal. choral awards for superior performance. The Mar Association, TMAA, and Phi Mu Alpha music of Canada's finest composer cin Chorale performed for the 1995 Texas Sinfonia. VCn1i354510922
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ternational acclaim in sixty-seven coun Jubilee Singers has performed with Chan Albert J. McNeil tries including Egypt, Muscat, Bahrain, ticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, the Los ALBERT J. McNEIL, a native of Los Pakistan, Mghanistan, Iran, Cyprus, Is Angeles Master Chorale, the Vancouver ..l\..Angeles, received a bachelor's degree rael, and Greece. It performs the entire Chamber Choir, and the Mormon Taber from the University of California at Los gamut of music termed 'Wrican Ameri nacle Choir. It last performed for ACDA Angeles and a master's degree from the can," but it is best known for its perfor members at the 1985 National Conven University ofSouthern mances of the concert spiritual. The tion in Salt Lake City. California; he pursued doctoral studies at the University ofSouthern California, Westmin ster Choir College, and the University of Lausanne, Switzer land. His mentors in clude Charles Hirt, J. Finley Williamson, Howard Swan, Roger Wagner, and Jester Hairston. McNeil currently is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he headed the choral program and taught music educa tion. for twenty-one years. He is a well known adjudicator, workshop leader, guest conductor, arranger, and textbook author.
Mount Whitney High School Pioneer Choir HE CHORAL department at T•. Mount Whitney High School, Visa lia, California, offers five performing choirs to 420 singers from a 1,900-member stu dent body. The 1I5-voice Mt. Whitney Pioneer Choir comprises auditioned se niors, juniors, and sophomores. The Pio neer Choir has received consistent superior ratings at California Music Educators As sociation festivals and has been awarded the "best in class" trophy at Six Flags festi vals on four occasions. In addition to these accomplishments, the choral department has performed at three California Music Educators Association state conventions, two ACDA Western Division Conven tions, and the 1995 ACDANational Con ventiion in Washington, D.C. Dan Jackson AN JACKSON is in his eleventh D. year as Director of the Mt. Whitney High School Choral Department. He graduated with honors from California State University; Fresno, with BA. and MA. de-
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grees III choral con ducting. He previously taught at Washington Junior High School, Dinuba, California, where his choir sang at numerous California Music Educators Asso ciation state conventions and MENC na tional conventions. Jackson also has served as a guest conductor for honor choirs and as an adjudicator for local and state California Music Educators Association organizations. Each spring Jackson directs a Christian cho Mount Whitney High School Pioneel' Choir rale and orchestra, which tours overseas, having performed throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Pacific Chorale HE PACIFIC CHORALE, now in T its twenty-ninth season, produces a concert series at the Orange County Per forming Arts Center, and it appears as a frequent guest artist with the Pacific Sym phony, the Long Beach Symphony, the Pasa dena Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. The Pacific Chorale involves three children's choruses, sponsors festivals Pacific Chorale for high school and children's choirs, and presents in-school performances. It appears on five CDs, including an Albany Records release of James Hopkins's Sangr ofEternity SPIRITUALS William L. Dawson and Stephen Paulus's lmiceswith the Pacific T[l~KE(;EE I NS'I'ITlfTE CI Iflll1 Symphony. The Pacific Chorale is directed William I.Il;lI\:,oll. Dirr.etor SPIRITUALS by John Alexander. Tuskegee Institute Choir John Alexander William L. Dawson, Director OHN ALEXANDER has directed the $13.95 TCD1 JPacific Chorale for the past twenty-five years, and he has guest conducted well-known orchestras throughout the United States, Eu rope, the former Soviet Union, and China. He has been Professor of Music and Chairman of Choral Activities at Ask your favorite dealer or call 1-800-897-KJOS California State Univer sity, Fullerton, since 1994, after serving in Ig-vS similar capacities at e~ 60 'lfltt:.ilU oIMudJc~! California State University, Northridge, for Neil A. Kjos Music Company· 4380 Jutland Drive, San Diego, CA 92117 twenty-two years. Alexander received a B.M. NN9622C
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degree from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, anqthe M.M. degree from the University of Kenrucky, Lexingron. He pursued doctoral srudies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
Portland State University Chamber Choir .HE PORTLAND State University r. Chamber Choir has performed at na tional and regional conventions ofACDA, MENC, and the International Society of Music Education. It has been Choir in Residence at the Greek Music Festival of Keffalonia in the Ionian Islands and most recently at the Symposium on Choral Con ducting at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 1990 the Chamber Choir was a guest of the city Portland State University Chamber Choir of Tallinn, Estonia, for the quadrennial
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World Choral Festival in that city. This spring New World Records is scheduled to release the Chamber Choir's CD record ing of music by twentieth-century com posers Tomas Svoboda, Salvador Brotons, Sven-Eric Johanson, Norman Dinerstein, and Robert Suderberg. Bruce Browne RUCE BROWNE is Artistic Direc Btor of the Portland Symphonic Choir, Founder and Artistic Director of Choral Cross-Ties (a professional chorus), and Di Seattle GMs' Choir Prime Voci rector of Choral Stud ies at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. He also is co founder and a former member of Male En semble Northwest. He THE NORTH CAROLINA SUMMER INSTITUTE IN CHORAL ART. INC. is past President of Choral Music of the British Isles ACDA Northwestern Division, and he has served on panels for fifth annual fortv-ffifth annual the National Endowment for the Arts. His Children's Choir Workshop choirs have been conducted by Eric Ericson, Choral Workshop Dr. Rhonda Flemming, Choral Clinician Mr. Simon Carrington, Senior High/College Robert Shaw; and Helmuth Rilling. Browne Dr. Elizabeth Rose, Dalcroze Dr. Lynne Gackle, Middle School Chorus has been a clinician and guest conductor Mr. Bill McCloud, Musicianship APPropos! Vocal Workshop throughout the U.S. and a jurist and clini Mrs. Lois Hornbostel, Dulcimer cian in Germany, Estonia, Mexico, Canada, Dr. Elizabeth Rose, Dalcroze Mrs. Mariette Lisk, Regional Dance Mr. Michael Weaver, Show Choir and Spain. His choirs appear on the KOCH, June 13-15 June15-20 Freshwater, and New World labels. Choral camp activities for all participants Master Classes in choral techniques for all adults. Seattle Girls' Choir For brochure, write NCSICA, PO Box 10883, Greensboro, Prime Voci NC 27404. Marta Force, President (910) 275·3050 HE SEATTLE Girls' Choir is a five T level music education program that *Just ask Anton Armstrong, Rod Eichenberger, Sally Hennan, Ann Howard Jones, Janeal Krehbiel, Paul Salamunovich, or Andre Thomas! enjoys an international reputation for ex cellence. The Seattle Girls' Choir regu larly appears with the Seattle Symphony and is a resident ensemble of St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Washington. Many Tour With Your Choir composers, including Jackson Berkey, and perfonn in the Great Cathedrals and Historic Churches. have written music for the choir. Jerome • Great Britain • Central &: Eastern Europe Wright, Founder and Artistic Director, • Spain &: Portugal • Australia &: New Zealand has led Prime Voci in performances We've been coordinating successful concert tours for over throughout North America and Europe. 25 years. Travel with the professionals who exceed your It appeared at the 1993 ACDA National expectations for a trouble-free tour. We'll provide you with customized itineraries and very impressive references. Convention in San Antonio, Texas, and most recently it was featured at the ((i)) Harvard University Festival of Women's AMBASSADOR TRAVEL SERVICE Choirs and on the CHORUS AMERICA ra 148 E. Michigan Avenue/ Kalamazoo, MI 49007 TEL: 800-247-7035 FAX: 616/349-7674 dio series The First Art.
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Jerome Wright Temple University EROME WRIGHT began playing Music Prep Joboe professionally at age fourteen, and he became the permanent conductor of Children's Choir an adult church choir at age sixteen. He HE CHILDREN'S CHOIR is a studied music at the T multicultural treble choir in the Mu University of Wash sic Preparatory Division of the Esther ington, Seattle, where, Boyer College of Music at Temple Uni as an oboist and a versity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The baritone, he received five-year-old choir, designed for gifted boy a B.A. degree in 1961. and .girl singers ages ten to seventeen, He earned the M.M. stresses expressive singing built upon a foundation of good vocal technique and musicianship. The singers perform reper toire of diverse cultures and wide-ranging styles. It has participated twice at the Temple University Intercultural Festival of Young Musicians, and it performed at the 1996 ACDA Eastern Division Con vention in Philadelphia. Judith Willoughby-Miller UDITH Willoughby-Miller, founding JMusic Director of the Temple Univer sity iMusic Prep Children's Choir, is a graduate of Northwestern University and Temple University. She is Professor of Music at Montgom ery County Commu nity College, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, where she also is Di rector of Cultural Af fairs and Founder! Artistic Director of the Choral Society of Montgomery County. She has guest con ducted and adjudicated many types of choirs, and her own choirs have performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and have toured Eastern Europe, Australia, the former Soviet Union, and Puerto Rico. Willoughby-Miller is a past President of Pennsylvania ACDA, and she currently serves on CHORUS AMERICA'S Board of Directors.
Texas Tech University Choir HE UNIVERSITY CHOIR is the T. premier choral ensemble at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. The sixty voice choir comprises music and non-
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music majors chosen by a highly com petitive audition. The University Choir appeared at the 1994 ACDA Southwest ern Division Convention in Denver, Colorado, and at the 1994 Texas Music Educators Association State Convention in San Antonio. The choir tours annu ally and has performed throughout the U.S. and Western Europe. Drawing from a variety of literature including all peri TextlS Tech University Choir ods and styles, the choir annually per forms major choral works with orchestra including Brahms's Requiem, Bach's B Minor Mass, Mozart's C-Minor Mass, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and Orff's Carmina burana. Kenneth Davis ENNETH DAVIS is in his eighth Kyear at Texas Tech University, where he conducts the sixty voice University Choir T1l1·t!e G'eek Cho1'Ole and the l20-voice Lubbock Chorale. In addition, he heads the Graduate Program in Choral Conducting, working with both master's degree and doctoral students. He also chairs the vocal department, which involves more than 110 voice majors.
Turtle Creek Chorale HE TURTLE CREEK Chorale, cur T rently in its seventeenth season, is a 225-voice male chorus based in Dallas, Texas. The Chorale, and its subgroups, perform more than sixty concerts annu ally, and it has toured across the U.S. and Europe. The Chorale has made fourteen recordings and is the subject of the Emmy We'll Help Award-winning PBS documentary ''After You Get Started. Goodbye: An AIDS Story." It performed Our Suzuki ToneChime method book at the 1993 ACDA National Convention series makes it easy, even if you've never in San Antonio and at the 1996 ACDA taught or played ToneChimes before. Call Southwestern Division Convention in us Toll Free, your music class will be Dallas. The Chorale is a member of glad you did! ACDA, CHORUS AMERICA, the National Association of Recording Arts and Sci • • • I/i!!!!!!iJ CORPORATION ences, and the Gay and Lesbian Associa '0 8541594 l~ D & [l [jj) EJ D tion of Choruses. 180 P.O. Box 261030, Sail Diego, CA 92196
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Timothy Seelig University of Colorado at Lawrence Kaptein IMOTHY SEELIG assumed the ar Boulder University Choir AWRENCE KAPTEIN is Director T tistic direction ofthe Turtle Creek Cho HE FIFTY-VOICE University Choir L of Choral Activities at the University rale in 1987. He holds a D.MA degree T is an auditioned mixed ensemble of Colorado at Boulder, where he joined from the University ofNorth Texas, Demon, composed primarily of undergraduate the faculty in 1985. He conducts the Uni and a diploma from the students, half of whom are nonmusic versity Choir in addi Mozarteum in Salz majors. For more than fifty years, the tion to teaching un burg, Austria. Seelig also University Choir has performed at state, dergraduate and grad is Musical Director of regional, national, and international cho uate courses in choral the Women's Chorus of ral events. The choir's performance of conducting. He has Dallas and Founder of international repertoire was well received guest conducted all the Greater Dallas Arts at the 1991 ACDA National Conven state-and honor choirs Consortium. He is a tion in Phoenix. The following year the and presented work board member OfCHO choirwas invited to perform at the Tolosa shops throughout the RUS AMERICA and the Children's Chorus of International Choral Competition in U.S. Me edits a choral series published by Greater Dallas. In addition to conducting, Tolosa, Spain, achieving critical acclaim Alliance Music, and he has written articles Seelig has an active career as a vocal solist that for its performance of contemporary in the Choral Journal the American Choral has included both European operatic and American choral music. It also sang at Review, and Musikerziehung Osterreichischer Carnegie Hall recital debuts and a solo CD the 1994 ACDA Southwestern Division Bundesverlag (based in Austria). Kaptein benefiting local AIDS organizations. Convention in Denver. recently was invited to teach conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark, and he will also present a lec ture series for conductors in Seoul, South Korea.
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University of Illinois Chorale HE FIFTY-VOICE University of Il T linois Chorale, formed in 1967, is the premier ensemble in the Division of Choral Activities at the School of Music. Its highly select singers, mostly graduate students in voice and choral conducting, accomplish a high level of artistry and stylistic interpretation in their perfor mances of challenging music from all his torical periods. The Chorale recently performed at the 1996 ACDA Central Univel"Siry ofMiami Chorale Division Convention in Cincinnati. Fred Stoltzfus RED STOLTZFUS is in his sixth Fyear as Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He earned graduate degrees at the Staatliche Hoch schule fur Musik, Det mold, Germany, and the University ofIowa, Iowa City. He previ ously taught at McGill University in Montreal, Specializing in custom-designed tours for peiforming groups Quebec, where he won the Noah Greenberg UNITED STATES • CANADA • EUROPE Award for a CD recording of Buxtehude SCANDINAVIA • GREAT BRITAIN cantatas. He collaborated on the 1993 pub lication of Haydn's Stabat mater with the j) 3250 - 28th Street, S.B. Joseph Haydn-Institut. The University of Grand Rapids, MI 49512 F==I Illinois Chorale under his direction has (616) 957-8113 or (800) 469-4883 ,J ~ performed twice at the Festival Interna tional de Lanaudiere in Joliette, Quebec. Wherever your travel, let us be your guide.
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HE CHORALE, one of nine choral HE. city-operated San Diego Trolly Sys- . T ensembles at the University of Miami tern will be a:';ailable to all convention School of Music, was founded in 1993 by ,..•.. · ... attenciees for just$IO.:t>ass holders will' current Director of Choral Studies, Jo •. . • haveurilimited access to trolleys, as well , .t as buses; Cluring the fou~ days of the con- http://www.ChoraIWeb.com Michael Scheibe. The Chorale, compris (208)882-6760 ventio~(March 5-8). The trolley line will ing both music and nonmusic majors from be a convenient and erijoyable way to .ttavel· . Choral Music Through the Internet across the campus, has quickly established . to the convention yenues,. and both' buses ,. itself as one of Florida's leading collegiate and trolleyswilltati:e visitors to milnyof. View, Listen, Purchase and choral ensembles. It prides itself in singing thecity'~ ~ajor tauris.! att,~actions ~ucha,s Download Choral Music over an innovative and versatile repertoire, es Old'I'0w~andtheSan DiegoZoo:T()re~ the Internet '~eive y~ur ttolleypass, be s~reto inchide· pecially twentieth-century choral works. 'aneJ(tr~$lOp"r pe~son :with rour conven Visit our Booth in San Diego! The Chorale has performed with Luciano ,tion payment and write TROLLEY on your Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, and it per- preregistration form. --_ .. ----.--.------
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formed with the University ofMiami Sym phony Orchestra at the 1996 MENC Na Simply . .. the best! tional Convention in Las Vegas. J0- Michael Scheibe O-MICHAEL SCHEIBE is Professor Jof Music and Program Director of Cho ral Studies at the University of Miami, Mi MASTER MUSIC MANAGER ami, Florida, where he conducts the Civic Chorale ofGreater Mi Easy-to-use computer resources for school and church musidans ami and the University Chorale, coordinates Madntosh® and Microsoft® WindowsTM versions include: the Choral Program, and teaches under Music library Recordings library Membership Files graduate and graduate Personal Directory Inventory Manager DataDesigner conducting. He re Easily customize any module, or design your own! ceived BA and MA degrees from California Call MANAGER SOFTWARE for a FREE demo disk. State College, Long Beach, and a D.MA degree from the University ofSouthern Cali (800) 282-9220 • Monday-Friday • 9-5 Eastern Time fornia:. Ensembles under his leadership have Also available for church musicians ... Hymnlndex™ Worship Planner sung 4i: ACDA and MENC state, division, and niitional conventions.
CONYERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, USA tJ niversity of Michigan 911 N. Main Street • Conyers, Ge orgia 30207 phone (770) 929-0700 or 929-0701 Men's Glee Club Fax (770) 929-1940 I-IE UNIVERSITY of Michigan ...... - ...... T Men's Glee Club, founded in 1859, FULL-TIME DIRECTOR OF MUSIC MINISTRIES for 700-hundred-member church is the second oldest collegiate chorus in in the Atlanta suburbs. Two Sunday services, adult, youth, children, and handbell the U.S. Its one hundred graduate and choirs well established and recognized as one of the most important ministry arms undergraduate members represent nearly of this church. Three-manual, 78-stop custom digital Allen organ to be installed mid all schools of the university. In addition January 1997. Must have a proven track record as a recruiter and developer of to a busy concert schedule in Michigan choirs in all age groups. We want to grow! Salary commensurate with education and experience. Income potential up to $35,000 plus annuity, insurance benefits, and af:ross the U.S, the Men's Glee Club weddings, and teaching privileges. Minimum bachelor of music degree with five has won four first prizes at the Interna years' full-time music ministry experience. Include a personal statement of faith tional Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, along with resume when applying. Send resume to Music Search Committee at the Wales, has performed twice at ACDA above address no later than February 1, 1997. Eastern Division Conventions, and has recently toured in Eastern and Central Europe and the Far East. In May 1996 the Glee Club presented critically ac claimed concerts in Brazil, Argentina, Urug1,lay, Chile, and Peru. Jerry Blackstone ERRY BLACKSTONE is Codirector Jof ,;Choirs and Coordinator of the Conducting Department at the Univer sity of Michigan, where he teaches con ducting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, jointly administers a choral pro University ofMichigan Men's Glee Club gramof nine choirs, and conducts the
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Chamber Choir, Uni- Conductor of the Monroe (Louisiana) versity Choir, and Symphony Orchestra, and he has guest Men's Glee Club. He conducted the Concerto Soloists of Phila- makes frequent ap- ~ delphia, the San Antonio Symphony, and pearances as a guest ~ the Jackson (Tennessee) Symphony. Cham- conductor, clinician, 8' berlain is an honors graduate of Indiana and adjudicator, and ~ University, and he studied with Julius each summer he con- [ Herford, Margaret Hillis, John Nelson, ducts the University of Michigan All-State Andrew Davis, and Robert Page. High School Choir and Chamber Singers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Blackstone holds degrees from the Uni Utah Chamber Artists versity of Southern California, Indiana HE SALT LAKE CITY-based Utah University, and Wheaton College, T Chamber Artists, comprising forty Wheaton, Illinois. singers and thirty-five instrumentalists, per forms music from all periods and is com- University of Northern Iowa Concert Chorale HE UNIVERSITY of Northern T Iowa Concert Chorale is one of five select choirs in the School of Music and has attained state, regional, national, and international recognition. The Concert Chorale, under the direction of Bruce Chamberlain since 1989, made its the Carnegie Hall debut in 1995 perform choral mUSj [ lan ing with the Bohuslav Martinu Philhar monic, appeared at the 1994 ACDA Canada's finest choirs singing the
beautiful, ethereal. choral ~>7"'. c. North Central Division Convention, and music of Canada's finest ~"""'~ composer : "''\- performed the Bach St. John Passion con vcn4354518324 ducted by Margaret Hillis in 1991. It also has presented seven world premieres, and it has been invited to perform in numerous European festivals with lead ing orchestras. needed for a growing 2600-member congregation for duties including directing and coordinating music for youth and children's choirs and a Bruce Chamberlain contemporary worship service. Applicant should RUCE CHAMBERLAIN, Director be skilled in contemporary and traditional forms Bof Choral Activities at the University of worship. Choral conducting skills required, keyboard skills a plus. Requires a bachelor's degree of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, conducts in music, master's preferred. Salary range is the Concert Chorale and Chamber Sing $22,000-$25,000 plus benefits. Looking to fill as ers and directs the soon as possible. Send resume to Carl Ashley, Trinity United Methodist Church, 9625 N. Military Graduate Choral Con Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410, or fax to ducting Program. He (561) 622-5467. won the 1987 CHO RUS AMERICA National Conducting Competi tion, and he was the only American con ductor on the final concert of the Twenty-first Annual Or egon Bach Festival. He is Music Director/ Utah Chamber Artists (519) 662-3499 Fax: (519) 662-2777
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Western Illinois University Singers HE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, com T prising mostly undergraduate mu sic majors, is the representative choral ensemble at Western Illinois University, Macomb. Its regular performances in clude two major concerts per semester, an annual recruiting tour, the Western Illinois University New Music Festival, and a yearly major work with the university's symphony orchestra. The University Singers has appeared at the 1992 Illinois Music Educators Associa tion State Convention, the 1993 MENC North Central Regional Convention, and the 1997 MENC North Central Re gional Convention. It also has performed with the Kansas City Symphony, with the Dallas Brass, and as guest artists with orchestras in the region. James C. Stegall AMES c. STEGALL, Associate Pro Master's Degrees in Music Jfessor of Music, is in his eighth year as Director of Choral Activities at Western with the scholarly and Illinois University; Macomb. He received musical resources of B.M. and M.M. degrees from Stephen F. Austip State University, Nacogdoches, Emory University Texas, where he was named 1996 Out- and the city of Atlanta
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standing Music Alum nus. He also received a D.M.A. degree from the University of Mis souri-Kansas City. Stegall's teaching at Western Illinois Uni versity has been recog nized through six major university awards. He is a frequent conductor and clinician throughout the U.S, and he is a member of the Illinois Music Educators Associa tion, MENC, and ACDA. Winter Park High School Concert Choil-
cator, and clinician for middle school, the sacred Winter Park High School high school, and church choirs. Jacobs Concert Choir received the 1992 Sally Mae Most Out choral mUSj [ la1fl HE CONCERT CHOIR from standing First-year Teacher Award in Or Winter Park High School, Winter lando, Florida. 'This music is beyond world T class: it', :vorld-withour- 1.'/_,:,1; end class. - GARY NORRIS 1'~ .,<' Park, Florida, is appearing on its first TutCml.DIAII PRtSS' ),s, ACDA national convention. The choir, -C]- VCn4354510922 comprising seventy-four auditioned sopho mores, juniors, and seniors, appeared at the 1995 ACDA Florida State Conven tion, and in 1994 it performed in Carnegie - VISIT OUR EXHIBIT AT THE ACDA NATIONAL CONVENTION IN SAN DIEGO - Hall. It consistently has received superior Gentry Publications is proud to publish ratings at Florida Vocal Association/Florida ALL My TRIALS, arranged by Albert McNeil JG2026 Music Educators Association state contests. THE WORD WAS GOD, by Rosephanye Powell G2196 The Choral Department at Wmter Park TURN THE WORLD AROUND, arr. by Larry Farrow JG2182 High School involves the students in the Don't miss the Freshman Women's and Men's Choirs, the Women's and Men's Chorales, the Park Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers Singers, and the Concert Choir. peliorming these three at the Convention on Thursday March 6 10:00 P.M. In the Civic Theatre Trey Jacobs Friday March 7 11:50 A.M. In Symphony Hall REY JACOBS received a B.M.E. de T gree from East Carolina University, THE ALBERT McNEIL Greenville, North Carolina, and the M.M. CHORAL SERIES THE LARRY FARROW CHORAL SERIES degree from the Southwestern Baptist HE'S GOT THE WHOLE DEEP RIVER JAMAICAN MARKET PLACE Theological Seminary, WORLD IN HIS HANDS SATB JG0507 SATB JG2092 SATB!SOLO JG0521 DEEP RIVER' Nav IN 1996 • JAMICAN MARKET PLACE Forth Worth, Texas. HOLD OUT YOUR LIGHT TTBB JG2188 SAB JG2187 This is his fourth year SATB JG0520 DOODUN' JAMICAN MARKET PLACE JOHN, THE REVELATOR SATB JG0483 SA JG2173 of teaching at Winter SATB JG2097 EV'RY TIME I FEEL THE JAMICAN MARKET PLACE Park High School, LITTLE WHEEL A-TURNING SPRIT TTBB JG2195 SATB JG2027 SATB JG0482 JAMAICAN MARKET PLACE Winter Park, Florida, OMARY, DON'T You WEEP GET ON BOARD, LITTLE PERF! ACCOMP TAPE where he is Chair of SATB JG0536 CHILDREN JGTC2187 OPEN THE WINDOW, NOAH SATB JG2091 o HAPPY DAY the Performing Arts SATB!SOLO JG2025 My LORD WHAT A MORNIN' SATB!SOLO JG2172 Department and over • AND NEW FOR 1997 • SATB JG0509 o HAPPY DAY My LONG WHITE ROBE SWING Low, SWEET CHARIOT PERF! ACCOMP TAPE sees the band, orchestra, keyboard, and SATB JG2201 SATB JG0484 JGTC 2172 theater departments. Jacobs also is WHEN THE SAINTS Go WHAT KIND OF SHOES MARCHIN'IN ARE You GONNA WEAR? Founder and one of the Artistic Directors SATB JG0481 SATB JG0510 of the Orlando Children's Chorus. He is active as a guest conductor, choral adjudi- - Q::> Gentry Publications -
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SUNDAY, MARCH 23-8:30 P.M. SATURDAY, MAY 24-8 P.M. NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, music director GREAT OPERA CHORUSES: Mozart: Solemn Vespers John Rutter, guest conductor Burt Allen, guest conductor VII ANNUAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR FESTIVAL Jean Ashworth Bartle, guest c6nductor EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 30-2 P.M. NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE SUNDAY, MAY 25-8 P.M. Faure: Requiem BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Mozart: Corollation Mass Mendelssohn: Elijah John Rutter, guest conductor Sherrill Milnes, guest conductor MONDAY, MARCH 31-8 P.M. SUNDAY, MAY 26-8 P.M. YOUTH MUSIC DEBUT SERIES NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Kentucky Christian College Choir (KY) Rutter: Requiem Mark Deakins, conductor Rutter: Magnificat Nolan High School Wind Ensemble (TX) Rutter: Hymn to the Creator oj Light (N.Y. Premiere) Stan Mauldin, conductor John Rutter, guest conductor Port Angeles High School Symphony Orchestra (WA) SUNDAY, JUNE 1-2 P.M. Ron Jones, conductor NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE MONDAY, APRIL 7-8 P.M. Mozart: Requiem NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE James Haygood, guest conductor Handel: Messiah MONDAY, JUNE 2-8 P.M. Joel Panciera, guest conductor NORTH AMERICAN VOCAL JAZZ EXTRAVAGANZA SATURDAY, APRIL 12-8 P.M. Phil Mattson, director and conductor NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE SUNDAY, JUNE 8-2 P.M. Faure: Requiem Gary Ebensberger, guest conductor YOUTH SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY Dvorak: Te Deum SUNDAY, APRIL 27-2 P.M Franck: Psalm 150 NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Jonathan Griffith, MidAmerica conductor-in-residence Schubert: Mass in F Major SUNDAY, JUNE 15-2 P.M. Jerry Jordan, guest conductor NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Neukomm: Mass in C Major Mozart: Solemn Vespers Lang: Spirit of the Child Simon Carrington, guest conductor Doreen Rao, guest conductor Schubert: Mass in G Major SUNDAY, MAY 4-8 P.M. Mozart: Regina Coeli NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Craig Arnold, MidAmerica conductor-in-residence Willcocks: Sing Praises SUNDAY, JUNE 22-2 P.M. Rutter: Gloria YOUTH MUSIC DEBUT SERIES Jonathan Willcocks, guest conductor SUNDAY, JUNE 29-2 P.M. FRIDAY, MAY 9,8 P.M. NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Mozart: Requiem University of Michigan Concert Band (Ml) John Rutter, guest conductor H. Robert Reynolds, conductor Faure: Requiem SUNDAY, MAY 11-8:30 P.M. Paul Salamunovich, guest conductor NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE SUNDAY, JUNE 29-8 P.M. Mozart: Requiem NEW ENGLAND SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE Rene Clausen, guest conductor Rutter: New Work (World Durufle: Requiem Pr~miere) Rutter: Gloria Jonathan Griffith, MidAmerica conductor-in-residence John Rutter, guest conductor THIRD NORTHAMERICAN~CHILDREN'S CHORALE Janet Galvan, guest conductor
For further infonnation, contact: MidAmerica Productions, 70 W. 36th St., Suite 305, New York, NY 10018 Tel: 212-239-0205 Fax: 212-563-5587 Internet: http://www.midamerica-music.com CONCURRENT SESSIONS
'~coustic Vocal Tuning" regional choirs in forty-seven states. His rection of Elaine Quilichini, will present INCE tempered tuning offers a poor projects include cross-cultural longitu various Hebrew songs well-suited for the Smodel for well-tuned singing, indis dinal research on voice development in children's choir. Under the tutelage of criminate use of a keyboard in the choral young people ages seven through eigh David F. Tilman, the choir will demon rehearsal tends to defeat satisfactory re teen. He has authored many publica strate stylistic applications, language, and sults. Ger"rud Eskelin will discuss "nature's tions and received numerous research an understanding of the historical signifi way' for singing in tune and will demon grants, establishing himself as one of the cance of this music. A combined perfor strate, with the assistance of the L.A. Jazz world's leading authorities on adolescent mance will begin and conclude the Choir, techniques for sensitizing singers to voice maturation. Cooksey has served as seSSIOn. flexible tuning. He will offer practical al President of Tennessee ACDA and Na ternatives to the almost universal method tional Chair for the R&S Committee on of drumming out voice parts on the piano. Boychoir. L.A. Jazz Choir HE L.A. JAZZ CHOIR will serve as T the demonstration group for '~cous "Children Sing tic Vocal Tuning." See p. 50 for the choir's biography. World Voices: Hispanic and Hebrew" Gerald Eskelin HE SAN JUAN Children's Choir ERALD ESKELIN will present T and its conductor, Evy Lucio Cor G '~coustic Vocal Tuning." See p. 51 dova, will combine forces with clinician for his biography. Diana Saez in an exploration of Puerto Rican, South American, and Mexican music. Saez will compare and contrast styles found in these various cultures, in "The Changing Voice cluding pronunciation and meaning as and Beyond" well as indigenous performance practices. OHN M. COOKSEY will present The Calgary Girls' Choir, under the di- Jstrategies for developing confidence and healthy vocal development in male - I singers from adolescence to adulthood. CA.LIFORNIA. STtTE IJNIVERSIT¥, LONG BEA.CH He will offer a summary of voice-change stages, and he will explore methods of : e&;itd/~ vocal development through application ofindividual and group classification tech If( DEGREE OFFERINGS If( GRADUATE AsSIS'IANTSHIPS niques, vocalises, literature selection, and Master of Music - Conducting SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Master of Arts in Music Howard Still Memorial Scholarship, $1,000 rehearsal procedures. (Music Education Concentration) Carpenter Choral Scholarships, $500 Bachelor of Music Department Scholarships, Awards up to $500 John M. Cooksey Instrumental Conducting Choral Vocal Option {intended for single COURSE OFFERINGS OHN M. COOKSEY, Professor of subject teaching credential candidates} If( Music and Director of Choral Activi Bachelor of Arts in Music Choral Conducting- J Beginning and Advanced (Undergraduate) ties at the University Advanced Choral and Instrumental Conducting of Utah, Salt Lake If( PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATIONS Seminar in Choral Music (Graduate) City, conducts the Chamber Singers Women's Chorus Choral Techniques University Choir Vocal Jazz Ensemble Choral Repertoire Concert Chorale and Forty-Niner Chorus Vocal Pedagogy Chamber Singers, Studio Voice teaches choral con If( FACULTI ducting and litera Dr. Lynn Bielefelt, Director of ture, and serves as a Choral and Vocal Studies For information please write to: Dr. Leland Vail, Assistant Director of Dr. Lynn Bielefelt, Dir. of Choral Studies curriculum specialist Choral Studies CSULB, Department of Music 1250 Bellflower Boulevard in music education. He has presented Glenn Carlos, Vocal Jazz Long Beach, CA 90840 workshops and conducted all-state and Michele Weir, Consultant-Vocal Jazz Or phone 310/985-5112 or 985-5777
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 67 GORDON CONCURRENT SESSIONS COLLEGE, a two-year state institution in Barnesville, Georgia, is looking for a college choral director. This full-time, tenure-track position begins with the Fall 1997 term. The successful applicant's duties will include: • Direct college chorus • Direct chamber choir • Teach voice classes and music appreciation courses as well as give private voice lessons • Assist with musical preparation of theater productions A doctorate degree is reqUired. Although rank and salary will depend on credentials and experience, the usual faculty benefits are prOVided. To apply, send your vita, the names and telephone numbers of three references, and copies of your graduate transcripts to: Dr. William R. Thurman, Jr., Chairman . Division of Humanities Gordon College Barnesville, GA 30204
The deadline for receiving Calgary GMs' Choir applications is February 28, 1997. Questions? Please call 770/358-5050 Diana V. Saez phia, and in 1995 she was a guest lecturer or e-mail [email protected]. IANA V. sAEz, a native of Puerto and clinician at La Primera Convenci6n peachnet.edu D Rico, is Music Director and Found de Arte Coral in Puerto Rico. Saez holds a AA/EOE/ADA er of Coral Cantigas, a chamber choir from B.M. degree from Boston University, the the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area M.M.E. degree from Harvard University, dedicated to perform and a master's degree in choral conducting ing choral music from from Temple University, Philadelphia. Spain, Latin America, {
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Calgary Girls' Choir HE CALGARY Girls' Choir, T founded by Artistic Director Elaine Quilichini, is a community program of fering music education and performance opportunities for girls and young women ages five to nineteen. Students attending the Canadian Choral Music School, Calgary, Alberta, also participate in the program. Last season the choir was awarded first place in the children's cat egory at Canada's acclaimed National Competition for Amateur Choirs, and it also placed first in children's choral classes at both the Provincial and National Mu sic Festivals. During the past year it re leased two CDs, Christmas Creche and A Gift ofMusic, to high critical acclaim. Elaine Quilichini LAlNE QUILICHINI has an inter University a/Texas at Arlington Chamber Singers Enational reputation for her musician ship and work with choral ensembles, and she is in demand as a clinician, lec turer, adjudicator, "Choral Quick Fixes- and guest conductor. Tried and Proven" "Professionally tailored gowns She holds a B.M.E. ING LING TAM will present creative of lasting beauty." degree from the Uni Jchoral rehearsal techniques designed to versity of Saskatche solve problems associated with poor into FREE wan; the M.M. de nation, vocal register, and vocal produc catalog and fabric samples. gree in KodaIy from tion. The University ofTexas at Arlington Since 1955 ... Holy Names College, Chamber Singers will serve as the dem LYRIC Oakland, California; onstration choir performing examples in CHom GOWN co. and Associate and Licentiate Diplomas various choral music styles. P.O. Box 16954-AZ • Jacksonville, FL 32245 in piano performance. She founded the CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-847-7977 Calgary Girls' Choir after ten years of University of Texas at conducting award-winning community Arlington Chamber Singers choirs. She also is Artistic Director at HE CHAMBER SINGERS, a group the Canadian Choral Music School, T of undergraduate students from vari Calgary, Alberta. A choral series in her ous disciplines at the University of Texas name is published by Alliance Music. at Arlington, sings a wide range of choral styles. It toured under the direction of Jing Ling Tam in Mexico in 1992, the San Juan Children's Choir People's Republic of China in 1995, and HE SAN JUAN Children's Choir Austria in 1996. It appeared as a demon T will serve as one of the demonstration stration choir at the 1994 ACDA South groups for "Children Sing World Voices." western Division Convention, Denver, See p. 30 for the choir's biography. Colorado, and it performed at the 1991 and 1993 Texas Music Educators Asso Evy Ludo Cordova ciation State Conventions. The Chamber VY LUCIO C6RDOVA conducts Singers will perform at the 1997 Texas Ethe San Juan Children's Choir. Her Music Educators Association State Con biography appears on page 31. vention in San Antonio.
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school, junior high, and elementary all state choruses. Her choirs at Ithaca Col lege have performed at ACDAand MENC national, division, and state conventions. For three years Galvin was a member of the Robert Shaw Institute Chorus. In 1995, New York ACDA presented her with the Outstanding Choral Director Award.
Morski Zvutsi Choir "Eastern Orthodox (' Liturgical Service" Europe and has received many presti HE EASTERN ORTHODOX li gious international awards. It has made T turgical service combines the mys several recordings and has been broad tery of divine service with the divinity of cast on both radio and television. Chonev man through the expression of prayer, is joined by conductor and former stu- song, spoken word, symbolism, and holy dent Rositsa Shtereva. " ...... I ritual. The Holy Liturgy functions as a remembrance of the Last Supper of Christ and shares many features of the ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Roman Catholic Eucharist. Throughout ItSUm the Eastern Orthodox service, the most SCHOOL OF MUSIC important moments of Christ's life are ARIZONA STATE "A Tradition ofExcellence" expressed through symbolic actions and UNIVERSITY word. The service is designed to sum Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Music mon the presence of Christ and reveal the infinite love of God. The Morski Degree with emphasis in Conducting or Music Education Zvutsi Choir, under the direction of A Eight performing choirs Marin Chonev, will present the liturgi A Two Practicum Choirs conducted by cal service at the Cathedral Church of graduate choral majors St. Paul. A Substantial graduate assistantships, Morski Zvutsi Choir scholarships and tuition waivers available ORSKI ZVUTSI CHOIR was A State-of-the-Art Music Facilities M founded in 1956 by Chief Con ductor Marin Chonev in order to con serve the sacred choral traditions of Choral Faculty Bulgaria. Morski Zvutsi is Bulgarian for David Stocker - Director of Choirs "sounds of the sea." The choir performs repertoire of a wide variety of nationali George Umberson ties, particularly Bulgarian, from the Re naissance to the present day. Under For more information, please write or call: various renowned conductors and or Arizona State University chestras, the choir has performed nu School of Music merous choral! orchestral works by PO Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 master composers and oratorios by con 602/965-3371 temporary Bulgarian composers. It regu Internet Address: [email protected] larly competes at festivals throughout
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 71 '6h~i~tUnitecrM-;;;u,6disf6h~~~ti" MeriiRhis;:Tei)J18ssee 'pre'sef!ts/ ! i , EI1IJAH,i Memphis Symphony Orcti¥s~r8'.,; Robert McBain conductor '.~ CONCURRENT SESSIONS Ch'rist ~hurch Chancel phpfr::i:!~.d Mel1)phls Boys'·Ch?ir " Hora~e English and M,'~,c:r.~~,~~e::~ D_aViS guest soloIsts 'MARCH 23. 3:0d'AN~c7:o'O:'~'M'. SANCTUARY 'General, Adnii§siQQfu;OO~J!101/683-3521 Marin Chonev founded the Morski ARIN CHONEV is Professor of Zvutsi Choir, and in the sacred M Choral Conducting at the Free 1969 he established choral mUSj [ laIn University, Varna, Bulgaria. He gradu the Varna Boys' Choir, ated from the Bulgarian Academy of BulgaHa's first per '\Vashburn balances the music's mysticism and power quite . Music, where he studied choral conduct forming boychoir. beautl 'full' y. _ SCOTT PATERSQlI " "', ,': CV.ss!W MUSIC MAc.ulHE I( , tr;~ ing under pedagogue and composer The Bpys' Choir won vcn4354518324 Georgy Dmitrov. After graduation he the Gfand Prix at the Rostock Choir Competition in Rostock, Germany, and it received the Summa Cum Laude Prize at the Neerpelt Choir ~ TEACH SIGHT-READING Competition in Neerpelt, Belgium. Un der Chonev's direction the Morski Zvutsi ~ BUILD SKILLS Choir and the Varna Boys' Choir have ~ DEVELOP CHORAL evolved into a unique music academy ARnSTRY for developing young musical talent in Bulgaria. ~ REINFORCE THE NATIONAl. STANDARDS FOR ARTS EDUCATION "David Fanshawe's · African Sanctus' ESSENTIAL MUSICIANSHIP NDRE J. THOMAS will conduct A t~e Traverse City Central High A practical method that presents: School Chorale, the University of North sight-reading, theory, and vocal i '" Dakota Concert Choir, the Utah State technique in a carefully-sequenced" University Chamber Singers, soloists, curriculum tha~ ;is ideal for all and instrumentalists in a performance types of choral ensembles, of the African Sanctus by English com poser: David Fanshawe. The African Sanctus integrates the Latin Mass with ESSEN'IAL~ REPEJlTqlRE prerecorded traditional Mrican music A core library of high~qp~g: gathered by Fanshawe on his trips up time-tested litera1:Uf.~;wi1:h;lteR the Nile through Uganda, Kenya, by-step teaching sugg~sti.ons Sudan, and Egypt. According to David and performanc~ tips,", / Willcocks, "The music is as fresh today ',,:' as it was when first heard in 1972, and its message of peace, goodwill, and un derstanding between nations is just as relevant." Andre J, Thomas NDRE J. THOMAS is Director of Discoverh&~v'thi~itillovative new methQ(f~(Utvvorkfor you A G:horalActivities and Professor ofMu- (/clnqyo~,choir.For more informatiO!l,ibout sic Education at Florida / ~~s5:ritial Elements focChoir,)vrite to: State University. He re ceived a B.M.E. degree ,/ Ess'etitial Elementsfb'rChQifCoordinator from Friends Univer "'HAL'LEONARD/CORPORATION sity; Wichita, Kansas; ! /" 7777W. fB!tibti6und Road ( ; ~9.B9X'13~J9;'Milwaukee,WI 53213 the M.M. degree in pi ano performance from \ ',,''-' >!"~/~AL.LEbNARD® Northwestern Univer .... « • .;. •• ~ ••'- sity; Evanston, Illinois;
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and a D.M.A. degree in choral conduct ing from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His compositions and arrangements are published by Hinshaw, Mark Foster, FitzSimon, Lawson-Gould, and Heritage. In January 1996, Florida State University honored Thomas with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Distinguished Service Award for out standing scholarly excellence and strong Traverse City Central High School Chorale commitment to the civil rights leader's ideals. Announcing Traverse City Central Church Music In the 21st Century: High School Chorale A Symposium HE SIXTY-FOUR-VOICE Chorale Featured speakers will include: Harold Best T is one of five curricular ensembles Benjamin Harlan at the 2500-student-member body of William Hendricks Traverse City Central High School, Lonnie McCalister Robert Webber Traverse City, Michigan. The Chorale, auditioned from approximately 230 February 13-14, 1997 at sophomores, juniors, and seniors, as Carson-Newman College pires to perform an eclectic repertoire Prior Registration is Required of challenging choral masterworks, in For more information contact: cluding at least one annual performance Dr. Clark Measels, Chair of a major work with orchestra. The Center for Church Music CNC Box 72048 Chorale has been directed by Russell Jefferson City, TN 37760 Larimer since 1988, and it has per 423/471-3328 formed at the 1994 ACDA Central Di [email protected] Sponsored by vision Convention in Chicago, and at The Center for Church Music, Carson-Newman College the 1992 and 1996 MENC Midwest The Louis and Mary Charlotte Ball Institute for Church Music ern Regional Conventions. The Tennessee Baptist Convention, Church Music Department Russell Larimer usSELL LARIMER is Director of I--_M ARK F 0 S T E R MUS ICC 0 M PAN y----i RChoral Activities for the Traverse City CHORAL COMPOSITIONS BY Area Public Schools and is in his ninth Chester L. Alwes, Rene Clausen, Marvin Curtis, Emile Desamours, year as Director of Victoria Ebel-Sabo, Nancy Grundahl, Iris Levine, Donald Moore, Uno Naissoo, Choirs at Central Valerie Shields, Z. Randall Stroope, Andre Thomas High School. Traverse City ensembles under U.S.A. sole selling agent for Cams-Verlag C\lof Stuttgart, Germany his direction have toured in the Mid Plan your next International Tour with west, Canada, and Courtenay McKelvy of Mark Foster Music Tours Europe. Larimer re ceived a B.M.E. de VISIT OUR BOOTHS IN SAN DIEGO gree from Albion College, Albion, Michi gan. He has served on the boards of Michigan and South Dakota ACDA and P.O. Box 4012, Champaign, IL 61820-4012 on the Michigan School Vocal Music call (800) 359-1386 or fax (217) 398-2791 Association. musIc COmPRny email: [email protected]
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A repository of historical material related to the 70-year career of
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Materials available to researchers, music educators, and historians include:
.. entire music library of Pennsylvanians (6,500 titles) .. radio and television broadcast recordings (10,000) .. scrapbooks (7,600 pages) tracing the Waring career 1920-1984 .. 7,000 photographs, 650 pieces of original cartoon art .. business and personal correspondence and records .. audio and video cassettes also available
For further information contact: Fred Waring's America The Pennsylvania State University University ofNorth Dakota Concert Choil' A project of the University Libraries Special Services Building 1127 Fox Hill Road University Park, PA 16803-1824 University of North Dakota (814) 863-2911 FAX (814) 863-2574 Antonio. In 1994 it performed with the Concert Choir Wmnepeg Symphony Orchestra in a con VISIT OUR WEBSITEI http://www.libraries.psu.edu/cl'Sweb/speccol/waring.hlm HE UNIVERSITY of North Da cert that was hailed "best choral performance PENNSTATE T.kota Concert Choir has appeared at of the year" by the Winnipeg Free Press. In important music conventions including the 1995: the choir performed in Western Eu 1993 ACDA National Convention in San rope to enthusiastic audiences and critical " acclaim. The ensemble stages a madrigal din ner each December, and it annually per Join Us for the 18th Season! forms choral/orchestral works such as Bach's St. John Passion, Brahms's Eines deutches Re quiem, Oms Carmina burana, Handel's Mes The Annual Summer siah, and Mendelssohn's Elijah. Choral Holiday James Rodde Workshop GREEN LAKE AMES RODDE, Director of Choral JStudies since 1985 at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, is a graduate July 20-26, 1997 Fe#Wd OF MUSIC ofAugsburg College, Minneapolis, Minne At Ripon College sota, and holds M.A. and D .M.A. degrees from the University of A relaxed, friendly setting in a beautiful resort area Iowa. The Concert Choir and the Varsity Sir David Willcocks, Conductor, London Bach Choir Bards Male Chorus have performed under Jonathan Willcocks, Junior Department, Royal Academy of Music his direction at ACDA Mezzo-Soprano, Vocal Clinician, Nova Scotia Paula Rockwell, and MENC national Plainsong, Anglican Chant and Anthem conventions. Rodde Conducting Techniques • Children's Choirs - Vocal Techniques has conducted several -Workshop participants will sing choral evensong service all-state and regional choirs, most recently Finale concert with the Green Lake Festival ChOir, Brass Ensemble the 1996 ACDA North Central Division and Children's Honor's Chorus featuring Men's Honor Choir in Lincoln, Nebraska. Polychoral motets by Bruckner, Gabrieli, Wilberg, and Willcocks His choral editions are published by Musica Undergraduate Credit Available Russica, Mark Foster, and AM.S.I. He is Green Lake Festival of Music past President ofNorth Dakota ACDA and P.O. Box 569 • Green Lake, WI 54941 • (414) 748-9398 currently serves as ACDA North Central E-mail: [email protected] Division Chair for the R&S Commirtee on Men's Choirs.
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Utah State University Chamber Singers HE CHAMBER SINGERS at Utah T State University, Logan, comprises thirty dedicated student musicians whose high standards of performance and vibrant singing received international recognition resulting in numerous invitations to ap pear in prestigious concert settings around the world. The ensemble frequently ap pears at ACDA division and national con ventions. Local and national radio broadcasts ofits performances have brought its artistry to an ever-increasing audience. A Washington Post review described its CD recording Sing Me to Heaven "a quietly impressive recording." Its newest CD, A Utah State University Chamber Singers Caroler's Gift, was released on the Integra Classic label last November. Willard Kesling University of Wisconsin-Madison "\VJILLARD KESLING is Director of W Choral and Orchestral Activities School of Music and Professor of Conducting at Utah State University. He has conducted Master's and Doc~oral Degrees in @noral Conducting more than one hun dred amateur and FACULTY professional choruses Beverly Taylor, Director of • Individual attention and more than thirty Choral Activities • Podium time professional orches Timothy Stalter, Assistant • Emphasis on developing musicality tras in prestigious Director of Choral Activities • Choral/orchestral conducting settings such as Car Anthony Barresi, Professor of • Building choral repertoire Choral Music and Education • Rehearsal techniques negie Hall, the Ken David E. Becker, Orchestra nedy Center, the Pa Director/Conductor For more information call (608) 263-1891 lacio de Belles Artes (Mexico City), the James Smith, Professor of or e-mail btaylor1@!acstaff.wisc.edu Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), Conducting Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), and Shostakovich Hall (St. Petersburg). Kesling has guest conducted the Mor Wi-ite, call or FAX us for ourfree catalog! mon Tabernacle Choir on its national television broadcast "Music and the I';}antate NEW!! for EASTER / GENERAL Spoken Word." He recently recorded eLuSIC PRESS various popular symphonic music with G. F. Handel EASTER ANTHEM: THE LORD IS RISEN $1.50 the St. Petersburg State Symphony Or SATB, keyboard with optional trumpets II1I (parts included) easy/medium (3'30") chestra for a music-appreciation series Daniel Pinkham ALLELUIA FESTIVA SATB, organ $1.50 produced by PBS. medium/difficult (3') J. N. Hummel TE DEUM SATB, keyboard $6.50 easy/medium. (15') or with orchestra: Full score/set of parts available for purchase (call for information) "Internet Resources Order Calltate single copies at 50% discount! for Choral Music" Calltate MUSIC PRESS ANELISTS Timothy Brimmer, James P.O. Box 560, Denville, NJ 07834-0560 PD. Feiszli, Michael Shasberger, and Tel. (201) 627-8881 FAX (201) 627-7135
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David Topping will present an overview Timothy Brimmer James D. Feiszli of Internet resources, websites, technol IMOTHY BRIMMER, Assistant AMES D. FEISZLI, Director of Mu ogy, and applications available to choral T Professor of Music Education and Jsic Activities and Chair of the Depart musicians. Topics will range from web Technology at Butler University, India ment of Humanities at the South Dakota browsing to an explanation of distance napolis, Indiana, conducts Jordan Jazz, di School of Mines and Technology, Rapid learning applications. The session will rects the Prototype City, holds a B.M.E. include live online access to sites such as Multimedia Teaching degree from Mount MUSICA and other resource centers. Facility, and teaches Union College, Alli technology integration ance, Ohio; the M.M. for arts majors. He also degree in music his is Director of the tory and literature newly founded India from the University of napolis Youth Chorale. Akron, Akron, Ohio; You will know precisely what music you own, and take control of your music library when you use Score Brimmer has served on and a D .M.A. degree Keeper. Wel1 conceived, rnusician~friendly software, local, state, and national task forces ad in choral music from Arizona State Uni with complete manual, provides easy entry and dressing education reform. He received a versity; Tempe. He is Executive Director of searching of all your music. Affordable at just $49.95. B.M.E. degree from Central Michigan ChoralNet-the International Federation
For FREE information about this Windows software, University, Mount Pleasant; the M.M.E. for Choral Music Internet Center, which call toll-free: 1-800-871-3136 or write to: degree from Northern Michigan Univer includes five e-mail lists (Choralist, Choral Doubleware Publications sity, Marquette; and a D.A. degree in con Talk, ChoralAcademe, ChoralNetAdvisory PO Box 450826, Cleveland, OH 44145 ducting and vocal performance from Ball Group, and MUSICA), CHOREF (an on State University, Muncie, Indiana. line choral music database), the Choral Net Resource Site, and the ChoralNet website. Michael Shasberger ICHAEL SHASBERGER is Min M ister of Music at Augustana Lutheran Church, Denver, Colorado, where he conducts the Chancel Choir, the High School Choir, and the Choris ters Choir and teach es studio voice. He has guest conducted the Fine Arts Cham ber Orchestra of Me x ico, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian Na tional Chamber Or chestra, the Estonian Chamber Orches tra, the Ft. Wayne (Indiana) Philhar monic, the Mostly Strauss Orchestra of Denver, and the Butler University Sym phony. He earned a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Min nesota; a master's degree from the Uni versity of Redlands, Redlands, Califor nia; and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Shasberger chairs the task force for ACDXs World Choral Music Communication and Resource Center.
PAGE 76 CHORAL JOURNAL DIRECTORS CONCURRENT SESSIONS Gateway Music Festivals &Tours/ Inc./ is presently accepting applications David Topping "Less Is More- I for outside sales positions in many ,I" AVID TOPPING is a D.M.A. can- The Basic Elements I regions of the country. If you are D didate in choral music at Arizona intrested in finding out more about State University; Tempe, where he earned a of Expressive Conducting" master's degree in choral conducting. He KENNETH FULTON will work with these positions, caII1-80(}331- received a bachelor's volunteer conductors and the Austin 8579 or mail your resume to: degree in music edu- Peay State University Chamber Singers in P.o. Box 1165 cation from California a masterclass designed to: 1) identifY a State University at Ful- "foundation" pattern of conducting from Monticello, MN 55362. lerton and he has had which expressive and effective gesture can II !. ' al ~~" ======-=-=-~ addi ·tion training~ ,-______the Oberlin Conserv- atory of Music, Ober lin, Ohio, and the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt, Germany, under Helmuth Rilling. He is experienced both as vocal music teacher at the high stuciyvoice at school level and as a church music direc tor. He co-manages ChoralNet.
"Latin American Choral Music" ATIN AMERICAN choral music is a L vivid mosaic of different styles, colors, and rhythms. Twentieth-century compos ers have written in a wide variety of choral styles inspired by folk traditions, popular o Interlochen Center for the Arts origins, and emotionally charged poems and PO Box 199, Dept. CJ, Interlochen, Michigan 49643-0199 lyrics. This varied and extensive repertoire telephone (616) 276-7300 fax (616) 276-6321 will be presented by the Orfeon Univer e-mail [email protected] sitario Simon Bolivar under the direction of website www.traverse.com!educ!ica!icahome/htrnl Alberto Grau and Maria Guinand. In addi tion, popular and folk traditions will be shown through choral arrangements from different Latin American regions, with spe For Great Performances, cial emphasis on music of the Caribbean. n Prepare ~ith CHORALPREp . Recordings. Orfeon Universitario \.\ . '- SpeCializing in "These tapes have helped us start at a higher musical level, and progress Simon Bolivar beautifully produced rapidly. Fewer sectionals are HE ORFEON Universitario Simon study tapes of the needed as singers are able Bolivar will serve as the demonstration choral masterworks. to prepare and review on their T Featuring lovely woodwind group for "Latin American Choral Music." own ... Clearly tile easiest to use sounds. Offering a separate of tile practice tapes I've Ileard." See p. 28 for the choir's biography. highlighted mix for each voice part' Dr. David Stevens Accurate. Clear. Musical. Alberto Gran Musical Director, Austin Civic Chorus Please call for a FREE DEMO and Marfa Guinand and more information. "Couldn't Ilave done it witllout 'ya." A'TB Anchorage Festival Chorister LBERTO GRAU and Maria Gui 1 800 444 S A nand conduct Orfeon Universitario -- -n. ~ORALPREPThl Brahm's Requiem (1992) Simon Bolivar and will present "Latin American Choral Music." See pp. 29-30 ~.lJ COR DIN G 5 for their biographies. 4004 September Song Drive' Manchaca, Texas 78652' FAX (512) 282-8585 • Austin Phone (512) 282-5599
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EASTER SALE JAN. 1 - FEB. 7, 1997 evolve; 2) defIDe the specific influences of Austin Peay State University hand speed in those gestures; and 3) ob Chamber Singers FREE serve the application of those principles in hlE AUSTIN PEAY State Univer STOLE practice. The focus will be to provide con- T sity Chamber Singers will serve as the OFFER ductors with a basis upon which they may demonstration group for "Less Is More." competently evaluate their own conduct See p. 45 for the choir's biography. ing processes and eliminate those motions that are repetitive, ineffectual, and lacking George Mabry musical communication. EORGE MABRY conducts the Aus G.tin Peay State University Chamber Kenneth Fulton Singers. See p. 45 for his biography. ENNETH FULTON is Professor of KChoral Music at Louisiana State Uni versity, Baton Rouge, where he supervises graduate choral studies and conducts the A "Making Music Cappella Choir and with Vocal Improvisation" Chamber Singers. He ICHELE WEIR will demonstrate also is Chorusmaster for M vocal improvisation as a legitimate the Baton Rouge Sym expression of art music. She will begin phony Chorus. He has with melodic variation as a pedagogical thirty-two years of pro tool, followed by a demonstration of fessional experience in methods of vocal-improvisation basics: Take a step up this year! choral music, having rhythm and syllable usage. Leading audi • • a a • • • Kapellmeister Choir stools been a guest conductor ence participants by demonstration, Weir Custom Designed & Built and clinician for more than 450 choral events will explore ways of creating good music in twenty-eight different states. Choirs under through effective articulation, phrasing, his direction have performed fifteen times at sequence; and style. This how-to clinic various national and regional music conven will be valuable not only to jazz choir tions, and they have completed seven Euro directors but also to any director inter pean tours. The A Cappella Choir received ested in learning the fundamentals of vo standing ovations for its performances at the cal jazz improvisation. Phil Mattson will 1995 ACDANational Convention in Wash accompany on piano. ingron, D.C. Fulton currently is ACDA Southern Division President. 1Vfichele ~eir ICHELE WEIR is a faculty mem M ber at the University of Southern California. She was a member of Phil Mattson and the P.M. Singers, appear ing as a singer and arranger for its two AN AMERICAN CHORAL PORTRAIT albums, including Including the premiere recordings of Amazing Grace, the Grammy Award Sacramento·Sis Joe, Tenting Tonight, Hold On!, and nominated Night in JACKSON BERKEY'S Centennial Commission the City. Weir's vocal, SOUTH DAKOTA SHADOWS big band, and or American Shadows chestral arrangements Soli Deo Gloria (antorum are performed by Almeda Berkey, Conductor professional and educational groups in ez cluding Chanticleer and Beachfront iiIi· . Property. Her vocal arrangements are ~RiDS, published by Hal Leonard, UNC Jazz, [email protected] atfine record stores everywhere! and Aberdeen Music. She co-chairs Vo or call Collegium 1-800-367-9059 cal Jazz for the International Associa-
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tion of Jazz Educators and recently and weaknesses of available editions, eigh be used. The University of Southern Cali served as a panelist for the National teenth-century ideas about articulation and fornia Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Foundation for Advancement of the phrasing, incompletely specified instru and Chamber Orchestra will assist in the Arts. mentation (e.g., continuo, viola, and trom presentation. bones), acoustical venues, and the size and placement of performing forces. Neal Zaslaw "Mozart's Sacred EAL ZASLAW has been Herbert N Gussman Professor of Music at Choral Music" "Mozart's Cornell University since 1970. He is an ;\ HANDOUT will present basic study expert on seventeenth- and eighteenth-cen ..l\..materials for understanding the con Mass in C Minor" tury European music, ditions under which Mozart performed his EGINNING with a performance of publishing especially sacred choral music. The presentation will Bthe Kyrie and Gloria of Mozart's Mass on French Baroque attempt to understand those conditions in C Minor, K. 427, Neal Zaslaw ~ill music, historical per and how that knowledge may contribute then repeat one section, reversing the po formance practice, and to the quality of modern performances. sitions of the choir and orchestra in order Mozart. From 1979 to There also will be a brief slide show of to see and hear the effect of such place 1983 he was musico artworks depicting choral performances of ments. Other experiments will be tried, logical supervisor ofthe the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine including introducing Gregorian chant Academy of Ancient teenth centuries. Among the points con and experimenting with articulation and Music's award-winning recordings of sidered will be problems created by phrasing. Richard Maunder's edition, Mozart's symphonies. He was also musico changing cultural context, the strengths published by Oxford University Press, will logical advisor to the 1991-92 Mozart Bi-
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"Music in the Holocaust: sacred output of music created by slaves Baylor University The Holocaust in Music" in antebellum America. Andre J. Thomas A Cappella Choir NE of the most compelling dem will acquaint participants with the ofren HE BAYLOR University A Cappella O onstrations of the power of music neglected secular vocal forms that Mro T Choir will serve as the demonstration comes from the concentration camps of American slaves sang in pre-Civil War group for "Music of the Afro-American Tra the Nazi Holocaust. The session will America. dition." See p. 45 for the choir's biography. convey both a warning against racism wherever it occurs and a challenge to Andre J. Thomas Donald Bailey remember and emulate the courage of NDRE J. THOMAS will present ONALD BAILEY conducts the those who continued to sing even in A "Music of the Mro-American Tradi D Baylor University A Cappella Choir. the face of their own destruction. In- tion." See p. 72 for his biography. See p. 45 for his biography. cluded will be a rare film of a choral ,--______concert in Terezfn and the Jewish Death Songwritten in 1943 by choral conduc tor Martin Rosenberg for his clandestine chorus in Sachsenhausen. Participants will receive a bibliography and copies announces of suggested repertoire. Graduate Programs in Joshua R. Jacobson Choral Conducting OSHUA R. JACOBSON holds a B.A. T~M~;:~S=tI and Voice Jdegree from Harvard College, the M.M. School of Music Dr. Kenneth Davis, degree from the New England Conserva Director of Choral Activities tory of Music, and a D.M.A. degree from the University of Cin Master of Music interdisciplinary study combining cinnati College-Con III Performance music, theater, visual arts, and servatory ofMusic. He II Education philosophy is Professor of Music, II Significant conducting Director of Choral Ac ph.D. in Fine Arts experiences with university choral tivities, and Stotsky II Aunique and exciting ensembles Professor of Jewish program offering III Assistantships available Cultural Srudies at Address inquiries to: Northeastern Univer Dr. Kenneth Davis, Texas Tech University School of Music, Box 42033, sity, Boston, Massachusetts. His published Lubbock, Texas 79409-2033 articles, compositions, and arrangements, together with his performances and re cordings with the Zamir Chorale, have earned him a reputation as one of the foremost scholars and practitioners ofJew ish music in the U.S. Jacobson is past Presi When thinking about a trip dent of Massachusetts ACDA. for your group, contact us. Since 1970, 1.1.c. has been making complete travel and "Music of the Mro performance arrangements for American Tradition: musical ensembles. We shall be happy to submit a proposal A Look Beyond Gospels especially designed for your and Spirituals" group. Call or write us. OST AMERICAN choral conduc M tors are very familiar with gospels rr.:::=~~~1I international 4000 Portage - Suite 115 and spirituals. These forms, though valu travel Kalamazoo, M149001-4962 able in their own right, represent only the consultants 1-800-253-1670· Fax (616) 344-1342
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"The New through his desire to unifY the church service in his empire that Western musi Gregorian Chant" cal notation was invented. n OBERT M. FOWELLS will present Ra sing-along demonstration ofGrego Robert M. Fowells rian chant using recent discoveries of the OBERT M. FOWELLS holds de interpretive meanings inherent in the ear Rgrees from the University of Oregon, liest unheightened neumes. He will show Corvallis; New York University, New York Styled For how chant has returned to a more conver City; and the University of California, Los Individual Comfort sational flow in contrast to earlier twenti Angeles. He taught jun eth-century interpretations. Specifically, he ior and senior high Over 50 traditional and modern will demonstrate how neumes with more school choirs for twelve robe designs for leading choirs. than one pitch take on an ornamental char years before a twenty-six Dozens of classic colors in acter and which notes should receive em year tenure at California beautiful fabrics. phasis according to the intention of the State University, LosAn Contact us today for your free text or the musical design. It will become geles. He organized and easy to use planning guide. apparent that musical word painting was directs the Chapel of Call: 1-800-537-2575. not invented by the madrigalists. The ses Charlemagne, and he sion will show how chant can provide a has sponsored twenty annual chant ses ,.I!iRpMA§ wonderful source of unison repertoire for sions in Los Angeles and Solesmes, France. ~One Harmony PI.. New London. OH 44851 church or concert performance. He translated the English edition of Semiologie Grego rienne, Dom Eugene WE SALUTE THE NATIONAL MUSIC STANDARDS Chapel of Charlemagne Cardine's treatise on the recent discover HE CHAPEL of Charlemagne, or ies in chant. Fowells has taught chant in T ganized in 1985, is associated with the United States, Norway, France, and Thel'e are 110 bad choil'8, Dilly bad the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Australia. Studies at California State University, Los cOlldllCtOl'8. -Fl'illlke lIaa8111all Angeles. Most members take part in an nual chant sessions sponsored by the uni versity and held alternately in Los Angeles "Northern Lights Evoking or Solesmes, France. The group, not af filiated with any congregation, sings only Coloring the Sound Sound in concert settings, often under the spon of Your Women's Choir" sorship of the Southern California Early ·· ORNA EDMUNDSON and Di Music Society. The choir is named after M, ane Loomer will demonstrate their efore one can con Emperor Charlemagne; members wear his approach to choral timbre. Using a variety of duct, one must inspire those being conduct insignia on their robes because it was selections from the Elektra Women's Choir Bed. Only then can the desired end result-a performance that lives up to its full potential be achieved. Evokillg SOlllld takes a fresh look at the cutting edge of the choir: the conductor. It introduces premusical factors that determine a choir's performance, such as stance, breathing, and movement. You'll come away from Evokillg SOl/lid feeling a renewed sense of the totality of the conducting endeavor, as well as a grasp of how to better undertake to evoke sound from many unique human instruments. G-4257 Hardcover (323 pages) .... $35.00
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PAGE 82 CHORAL JOURNAL CONCURRENT SESSIONS concert repertoire, they will focus on the "Robert Ray's Robert Ray importance of understanding text as well as n OBERT RAY, a native of St. Louis, issues surrounding tessitura, voicing, and ac Gospel Mass' RMissouri, holds a degree from companiment. Although adult women's n OBERT RAY composed the Gospel Northwestern University. He currently voices will be heard during the demonstra RMass in 1978 while he was a lit is Associate Professor of Music and Di tion, "Northern Lights" also will be valuable urgy team member of the National rector of Keyboard Studies at the Uni for conductors of children's choirs. Office of Black Churches. The Mass versity of Missouri was premiered that year by the Black St. Louis. He also di Elektra Women's Choir Chorus at the University of Illinois, rects the 120-voice HE ELEKTRA Women's Choir will Urbana-Champaign, and it has been In Unison Chorus, T serve as the demonstration group for performed a number of times by lead founded by the St. "Northern Lights." See p. 25 for the choir's ing orchestras and choruses in the U.S. Louis Symphony Or biography. Gospel Mass combines two thousand chestra, that special years of liturgical Mass tradition with izes in music by M Morna Edmundson the contemporary music of the Mri rican-American com and Diane Loomer can-American church. Ray writes, "I posers. In December 1996, Ray directed ORNA EDMUNDSON and Di [want] everyone to experience the the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and M ane Loomer, who conduct the Elektra sense of joy and celebration that is Chorus in its second annual Gospel Women's Choir, will present "Northern generally felt in true Mro-American Christmas. Ray is an accomplished pia Lights." See pp. 25-26 for their biographies. worship." nist, having served as accompanist for
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Vocal Jazz/Voice baritone William Warfield and per Assistant Professor formed with several prestigious orches TART August 1997. Ph.D/D.M.A. pre tras, including the Seoul Philharmonic, ferred; A.B.D. acceptable. A commitment Seoul, South Korea. His compositions S to undergraduate teaching is essential. In struction in the areas of vocal jazz with choral and are published by Hal Leonard. applied voice emphasis. Touring and public rela tions required. Responsibilities may include dic tion, vocal literature, performance seminar, and Central Bucks High School- other courses. St. Norbert College is a nationally recognized, comprehensive, liberal arts and sci .West Chamber Choir ences institution in the post-Vatican II Catholic tra HE CHAMBER CHOIR is one of dition that seeks faculty supportive of the mission and goals of the college. Send letter of applica T six major choirs comprising more tion, resume, three letters of recommendation, and than !three hundred students at Central a statement of teaching philosophy to John Neary, Bucks High School-West, Doylestown, Chair, Humanities and Fine Arts, St. Norbert Col lege, Box 900, 100 Grant St., De Pere, WI 54115. Pennsylvania. The choir has performed Deadline: January 31, 1997, or until position is at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, filled. Members ofthe Central Bucks High School the National Cathedral in Washington, AAJEOEIWMA West Chamber Choir D.C., and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. It has sung for President Bill Clinton, Presidents F. W DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Presi Choral Music for Rent dent Vaclav Havel of the Czech Repub Reasonable Rates lic, and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon ~ Peres. The Chamber Choir has commis soaiJY sioned many works by North American Most standard and many "off-beat" titles composers. It performed at the 1996 from Baroque to Vaughan Williams. ACDA Eastern Division Convention in Symphonic choral music a specialty. Philadelphia. Most in quantities of 150 or more. Joseph Ohrt Low cost. OSEPH OHRT is Director of Choral Catalog with prices available. Activities at Central Bucks High JSchool-West. He holds bachelor's and Phone: (212) 247-3878 Fax: (201) 948-4878 master's degrees from Westminster Choir College, and he received diplomas r'o:","':-" ~- k"'_'_.' _._'-;. -----.---.-.-,-,:-,.,-:-_.;<, - . ~-. -,"""~-J -~,~",.. ,.-~-- '7' - --:.-- ; -- i . • . from the Kodily Mu sical Training Insti Ii i .Callf(>rNo~#~~U~JlS Herford Ptize . . tute and the Choral , "'f...HE: SUBCOMMIT]EE:for,theJ1lliusH~rfor~Prize, given annually by theAmerican Music Experience f t: ....' ..• Ghoral Direc:torsAss9ci3,ti~n:' is p.c:i:\¥a~<:epcing nominations forolltstanding doctoral Institute. His teach [ ,...... •. terminal research projt;cr'in c~orall:11:ii#dor1996: Projects will be copsidered if they ers include Joseph F c:9n~tiruxe' me. priricipal' researc~corrip9Ilen:tiofjhedegreerequirements, ,whetherth.e· \ .. ,inscituti,on calls the project 'a"disseriatiop,", "docume;rit," "treatise," etc. Eligibility is limited ' Flummerfelt, Frauke I" .to. qqct(jralrecipients whose deg~e;e~we:r~:c9\i.ferred.dUl;~rig the period January.l· through Haasemann, Dennis Keene, and Doreen Rao. He also conducts the r De~~~i~~ti~1;~~st:bg~p~rqv~~b; rlieiean, director, or chair of the music unit. An Young Singers of Pennsylvania, which 1..• insqrutionsh61.lldsllbmitonlyonedocillrient:In rio case mayan institution submit more performed at the 1996 AGO National [thantv,io. A se~ondriomiIiation sho1.lld'.inchicfe a.justification for· the additional nomina l' tioD..Thewinnl.'!rwillre~d+eaplaqu~anda cash.aw:ard of$500 to be presented at the 1999 Convention in New York City. Its re r ACDANati9nalConventi9nin;Chicago~ Illinois...... cording of the Berlioz Te Deum with I,f, ..Alettc;rofnominati0I?'(i'nclllCW;gthesignatllre oO:heheadof the music unit) and one copy the :Voices of Ascension was recently ofthedissenatiqIl S~qti14 b.e ~ubmirted D.() later than April 15, 1997, to Carroll Gonzo,.School of released on the Delos label. Ohrt is [Music, Urllv~~sio/6fTeiGiS;..(\.ustin,TexaS78712; telephone 512/471-0941; fax 512/471-7836; Pennsylvania ACDA Chair for the [ .e~lllail: iJJ.),lbj500(igutxvms.\:~:.tltexlll;:edu: .... , . R&S Committee on High School Choirs. I .. __ :._._~L.• _.i;~.;]; .. ___ ·;· ;_2.~ > ..• [ I'
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annually appears as a featured ensemble for Wichita, Kansas; the frequent clinician and adjudicator for Mis the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. The University of Kansas, souri and Kansas festivals and contests as ensemble always receives superior ratings at Lawrence; the Univer well as an active mc:mber of Kansas ACDA, state contest, and it has appeared many sity of Missouri-Kan for which he serves as State Chair for the times at Kansas Music Educators Associa sas City; and Wash R&S Committee on Community Choirs. tion state conventions. ington University, St. Louis, Missouri. He Steve Eubank has been Director of TEVE EUBANK, a native Kansan, Choral Activities at Topeka High School for "Recent Choral Music Sgraduated in 1973 from Friends Uni fifteen years and is Director of both the of John Rutter" versity, Wichita, Kansas. He completed Topeka Symphony Chorus and First United OHN RUTTER will update ACDA graduate work at Wichita State University, Methodist Church, Topeka, Kansas. He is a Jmembers on his recent choral compo-
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sitions, arrangements, and editions. He also will share a few thoughts on choral style and technique. Rutter says, "Bring s a director, you understand your voice, and expect one or two sur the connection between confi prises." He will be assisted by Paul Oakley dence and performance. on the piano, and there will be a special MUSical confidence is enhanced appearance by Paul Salamunovich. when performers feel good about their appearance. When John Rutter Southeastern joins your group OHN RUTTER, born in London in onstage, the result is pure harmony. J1945, studied music at Clare Col For 13 years, Southeastern has lege, Cambridge. In 1981 he founded been designing fashions for choral the Cambridge Singers, which has re groups. We offer a large selection of corded more than styles in popular fabrics, colors, and thirty albums. In the sizes to fit the needs and budgets last three years, four of the most diverse groups. Our of Rutter's recordings vast inventory allows us to deliver with the Cambridge ahead of schedule on most orders. Singers have been listed on Billboards Call today for your FREE catalog Classical Top 25. featuring our most recent styles. Rutter records exclu sively for his own label, Collegium Records, based in Cambridge,' England, with North American headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Rutter recently be gan the Collegium Choral Series, a mu sic publishing project designed to make the works performed by the Cambridge Singers available to other choral groups. Rutter is making his second appearance at an ACDA national convention.
142 South Woodburn Drtve· Dothan, Alabanm 36301 "Stylistic Expression 1=800=239=62941 and Interpretation of the Romantic Era" ONALD NEUEN will present a ····.iENJ{()PEAN,(j()NCERTTOURS.· D lecture-demonstration designed to reveal the full expressive potential of ar tistic singers performing Romantic mu sic. He will consider human and musical expressivity in general, and the commu nication of the Romantic era in particu lar, focusing specifically on music of Brahms. With the premise that art's main function is to effectively express feelings through music, dance, drama, writing, pictures, and form, Neuen will show the expressive communication inherent in Romantic choral music.
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 87 CfjJ (!lqnra:l~x£'" CHORAL MUSIC FOLDER CONCURRENT SESSIONS SINCE 1954 The music racR used by choirs around the world University of California, Donald Neuen Los Angeles Chorale ONALD NEUEN accepted the po ONALD NEUEN founded the D sition of Distinguished Professor of D one-hundred-voice UCLA Cho Conducting and Director of Choral Ac rale in 1993 as part of an administra tivities at the University of California, tive directive to build a comprehensive Los Angeles, after quality choral program at the Univer twelve years on the sity of California, Los Angeles. Estab faculty of the Eastman PLASTIC LEDGE lishing the Chorale and M.M. and School of Music. In HOLDS MUSIC D.M.A. programs in choral conduct 1970, Robert Shaw Order now to receive your ing were top priorities of the directive. brought Neuen to At folders in time for the The Chorale, consisting of two-thirds lanta to create the At nonmusic majors, has performed lanta Symphony Or Holiday concerts! Durufle's Requiem, Bach's St. John Pas chestra Chorus and to sion, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, and serve as Assistant Conductor and Direc CAll OR W~ITE FOR INFO: Brahms's Eines deutches Requiem. Next tor of Choral Activities for the Atlanta Wire (lJ411rah~p~.e (lJ.ontpaull year it will premiere an extended work Symphony. Neuen also served as Director P.O. Box 808 for chorus and orchestra by UCLA of Orchestral and Choral Activities for composer Roger Bourland. The Cho Georgia State University. He studied ex BrooRfield. WI 53008-0808 rale appeared at the 1996 ACDA West tensively with Shaw, Roger Wagner, Julius (414) 783-6612 ern Division Convention in Pasadena, Herford, and Alfred Mann. He has served California. as guest conductor, lecturer, and clinician for choruses and orchestras in Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada, and nearly every state in the U.S. • DRESDEN • MUNICH • BONN • VIENNA • SALZBURG • COLOGNE • I1.1I.II :c m = e; ~ CHORAL GROUPS WORLDWIDE m "S uccess ful "\VT.warmups " mII""'" · ANCY TELFER has developed a .. ATTENTION! m N four-year cycle of warmups to help ~ choral directors teach good vocal pro 918 Come perform in slJectacular indoor duction to their singers. Using exercises ~m J u n e .... and outdoor venues. to warm up the voice, mind, and ear, ::: Choral groups with all types of repertoire. Telfer will demonstrate ways to remedy i 919 Perform at city sponsored events specific vocal problems, explaining in de ••• and major religious sites. tail how each warmup helps the voice. III:Il»IdII .J u n e She will give an overview of the basics !CIa Individual concerts and joint concerts (e.g., breathing, tone quality, vocal flex .. are also availabie. ibility, and ear training) as well as a !i 0 10 European leaders in choral concert touring. wealth of interesting information for ex Strong touring programs throughout Europe. perienced conductors . =...... June n ..... High quality at reasonable costs. Nancy Telfer Excellont roferen"",. ~ 011 I~ 1\.IT ANCY TELFER is a Canadian 1 "I composer who has been a choral ~ .J u n e Contact Us for more information clinician and guest conductor for many I1.1I.II I ~ AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE .. national, regional, and state music or I1.1I.II GRETCHEN HEFFLER OR BILL LUTT m ganizations throughout the U.S. and Q WORLD PROJECTS NORTH AMERICA > iii MAIN OFFICE P.O. BOX 7365. BERKELEY CA 94707 ~ Canada. She received degrees in music :c TOLL FREE 1-800-922-3976 II""'" education and composition from the • DRESDEN • MUNICH • BONN .. VIENNA .. SALZBURG" COLOGNE • University of Western Ontario, Lon-
PAGE 88 CHORAL JOURNAL .. . '...... ACDA AdvocacyI{esolution CONCURRENT SESSIONS WhereaSthegovernmen1iof the United States of~erica has adopted Goals.2000:EducateAmericaAct; and
i .' .. ' W}heriatthe~ov~rlll11entofth~.VnitedStat~s ofAmericaha:s~dopted the don, Ontario. For '. NationalSta:lldardsfor Arts Education; . many years Telfer has presented vocal-pro duction workshops I.... T~~~~'Jhfr~4~o1~\~t~=~c;~=~~:~~:~~ [ ";beieduc~dforGoals20qO:Ed~~ateAmeric~Act:the National Stand;u-dsJor .. to both choral con cl1e: Arts, ductors and singers. I. ,,·Afrs,~duca.ti()il,R~~lic)r~acfc;s~hg, the' N,ati()IiaJ~~cl()w111~ntfor Her methods books to:"()~~~J;'{~tiEnalEnd~H~entifoi:,the\Hufuanities, •. _))_~ ___~~~_, for singers provide systematic teaching materials for every aspect of good vocal production. " ... ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S LEADING CONSERVATORIES" -the New York Times "Working with an Orchestra: Survival Strategies for the Choral Conductor" Tbe Unive1'Sity of OBERT BODE will provide choral Cincinnati College Rconductors with practical informa COllServat01J ofMusic tion about rehearsing an orchestra, using bas a distinf!;uisbed Mozart's Requiem as the focus of discus sion. He will address score study, rehearsal bist01J ofcboml preparation, and execution as well as eigh pelfol''lllance and tbe teenth-century performance practice and professional tmining style. In particular, Bode will focus on ofconductors, offering eighteenth-century violin design and its Newly renovated CORBETI AUDITORIUM effect upon string playing, and he will tbe Mastel- oflVlusic and explore the question of authenticity in Doctor ofMusical Am chorol faculty: the performance of Mozart's Requiem. in Cboml Conducting. Earl Rivers • John Leman • Philip Crobtree Robert Bode choral opportunities: Graduates of CClVI's Chamber Choir n OBERT BODE received a D.MA in Chorale ~oral conducting from the University of Mastel'S and Doctoml Chamber Singers * Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Progmms are in University Men's and Women's Choruses* 1987. He is in tenth year as Director of I1ltmlships with CCM Children's Choir and his leade1"Sbip positions Choirs at Whitman Col the Vocol Arts Ensemble (p1-ofessionol choi1~ lege, Walla Walla, Wash tbl-ougbout tbe wodd * conducted by graduate student choml conducting maj01'S ington. Whitman Col conducting pTofessional, lege choirs regularly have SY711pbony, zl1live1"Sity, selected repertoire 1996-97: Argento Petel- Quince at the Clovie1- performed atACDA di C01lZ1llZl1lity, cbzt1"cb vision conventions. He J,S. Bach St. Matthew Passion and cbildl-en 's cboh'S. Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia conducted the Walla Bruckner Te Deum Walla Mastersingers at Ives Psalm 90 the 1995 ACDA Na for further information: Mozort C NIinor NIass Moran tional Convention in Washington, D.C. Bode, Paul Hillner, Assistant Dean Aglllls Dei, Ite NIisStl est an active orchestral conductor, is Music Direc College-Conservotory of Music, Box CJ Part Te Delt1Jl tor ofthe Mid-Columbia (Washington) Sym Universily of Cincinnati Poulenc GI01-ia Van Shakespem-e Songs (p1-emie1'e) phony and Principal Guest Conductor of the PO Box 210003 -o Cincinnati, Ohio 45221'()003 .. Gainesville (Florida) Symphony and the West .. .. Bohemia State Orchestra (Czech Republic). 513/556·5463 :c I n c I n n a I i FAX: 513/556-1028 > = www.uc.edu/www/ccm/ COLLEGE .. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC { -C]- • I
JANUARY 1997 PAGE 89 1997 ACDA Thomas Downey Student Conducting Competition High School CDA WILL PRESENT its third bi graduate and eight graduate semifinalists Madrigal Singers A ennial Student Conducting Com will compete on Wednesday, March 5. r-rHE MADRIGAL SINGERS meets petition at the 1997 ACDA National The winners will proceed to the finals .1 :at 7:00 A.M. daily and performs litera Convention in San Diego. Eight under- on Thursday. ture 'of many periods and styles. Most mem bers ofthe Madrigal Singers belong to at least one, other vocal or instrumental ensemble and ,choose other classes from an extensive range of arts offerings. Many have been se lected to sing in all-state and national honor choirs. The ensemble consistently earns su perior ratings at California Music Educators Association festivals and tours annually throughout the U.S. Each December it per forms dozens of concerts throughout the Modesto and San Francisco areas. The group will serve as the demonstration choir for the undergraduate-level competition. Polly Vasche OLLY VASCHE received bachelor's P,degrees in history and education from Stanford University and a master's degree in Thomas Downey High School Madrigal Singers vocal and piano performance from Califor nia State University Stanislaus. She pursued additional studies at Westminster Choir Minister o/Music College and at Loyola Grand Rapids, Michigan University, Los Ange les. She is in her twen Westminster Presbyterian Church (USA) in Grand Rapids, ty-second year at Tho MI, seeks a full-time Minister of Music to lead a 1300- mas Downey High member congregation whose rich musical tradition involves School, Modesto, where she teaches hand over 300 musicians each week. The current program includes: bells and five choirs. In 1989 she received a 90-member adult choir, a 50-member high school choir,4 children's choirs, the Teacher of Excellence award at Thomas 2 bell choirs, a wind ensemble and other instrumental groups. Special programs Downey, and in 1995 she was named by children's choirs and major choral works are performed with are presented Modesto Rotary Teacher of the Year. She is professional orcllestra. past President of California ACDA. The Minister of Music will be a choral director with responsibility for all aspects of the music program, working with part-time music staff, the music secretary and volunteers. Preference will be given to candidates with the ability to conduct University of Northern Iowa groups of all ages and with keyboard skills. Concert Chorale Candidates devoted to Christian principles and with demonstrated competence HE UNIVERSITY of Northern in church music are urged to apply. We seek a person who will support the , Iowa Concert Chorale will serve as totality of ministries at an urban church, one who has superior creative vision, T organizational skills and sensitivity to the needs of fine amateur groups. the demonstration group for the gradu ate-level competition. See p. 61 for the Salary range: $30,000-$40,000, + benefits. Review of files will begin in January, choir's biography. with the position to be filled Summer 1997. Bruce Chamberlain Send letter of interest, resume and list of references to: ~. ,RUCE CHAMBERLAIN conducts Fredrika Herrick, Chair, Music Search Committee B. the University of Northern Iowa Con Westminster Presbyterian Church certChorale. See p. 61 for his biography. 47 Jefferson St. SE; Grand Rapids, Ml49503. -C]-
PAGE 90 CHORAL JOURNAL American Choral Directors Association Monograph No. 8 American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs: Ten Prominent American Composers of the Genre (1860-1940) and the Seminal Singing Societies that Performed the Repertory. ILLu8T.112 PP.
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erican Singing Societies and Their Partsongs (Monograph No.8) explores A several of the singing societies that figured prominently in the cultural life of late nineteenth- and early TheMende/ssohnGleeCfubofNew York, asdepictedby twentieth-century America. A few, like the Mendelssohn Glee cartoonistChariesJ.Brush Club of New York and the Apollo Club of Boston, remain active to this day. The societies frequently commissioned celebrated composers of the time to write partsongs for their society performances. American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs considers the relationships that existed between the various composers and societies and concludes with a repertoire list of 380 works from the partsong genre.
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During the entire four days of the convention (March 5-8), Phil Mattson & Voiceslowa pass holders will have unlimited access to all trolleys and buses, which travel to nearly ANNOUNCE A NEW RECORDING every one of San Diego's attractions in cluding Sea World and the world-famous "Here's To Life" San Diego Wild Animal Park. Trolleys will even take you to the Mexican border at "Here's To Life", "Almighty God/Heaven", "Gold Mine", Tijuana. To obtain a trolley pass, all you "If I Loved You", "Blues In The Night", "I Remember have to do is add $10 per person to your Clifford", "Corcavado", "Sa Skimande Var Aldrig Havet" registration fee and write TROLLEY PASS on $15 +S&H. your convention form. Don't let this spe cial offer pass you by. Also Available: Unison Schedule with Divisi. 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If you are flying, Sryarontlansen Choral Conducting ACDA suggests you use the Cloud 9 Vocal/Choral Faculty Shuttle service (just $4 for ACDA mem . William Duvall; voice . • Master of Music in Choral Conducting bers) from the airport to your hoteL Once ChrisUne Flasch; voice. conducting opportunities with you get your luggage, you can use a cour Sharon· Hansen, tesy phone located in the baggage-claim cftora Iactivities University choral organizations available area, or just proceed outside and wait for William L~!Vonis, voice ... to graduate conducting students a shuttle to arrive. (Some hotels offer a CorlissPftillabal!m, opera Katja. Phillabaum ,opera private conducting and vocal study free'van service, which also can be ob with major professors tained by using the courtesy phones in the baggage-claim area.) After checking For. information,· contact: numerous professional and cultural in at your hotel, go to the San Diego Dr. Sftaron A.· Hansen opportunities in the Milwaukee Convention Center to pick up your regis Director of Choral Activities metropolitan area UW-Milwaukee . tration packet. No one will be admitted to any concert without a badge. You won't FineArt~Music • Substantial scholarships and teaching ·POBox 413··· want to miss hearing the first interna Milwau(iee; WI. 53 2oi·· assistantships available for the 1997-1998 tional choir concert! voice (414)229-4595 Academic Year The Exhibit Hall-For Exhibits and fax (414) 229 .. 2776 More. The exhibit area, which will be in ;···E-mail~· • Application and audition deadline the beautiful San Diego Convention Cen March 15, 1997 ter, will offer ACDA convention-goers more than just a wide array of fascinating exhibits. 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After looking over this The Software Index is updated each summer to include the last completed issue of the Choral Journal, how could volume year of the Choral Journal (August to May). Orders received after June you possibly say "no" to San Diego? Do 15 will be held and filled with the revised index as soon as it is available. whatever it takes to be a part of this ACDA gathering-and don't forget to preregister by February 5. I'll see you in San Diego! ______State __ Zip Code _____ Mitzi Groom, Publicity Chair 1997 National Convention Operating System (check one): 0 MS-DOS 0 Windows 0 Mac OS Word Processor ______Version No. ____ -C]- Quantity Price Enclosed Payment REMINDER @ $18.00 $_--- ; i ~ city-operated San Diego Trolly System will be avail , :able to all convention attendees for just $10. Pass hold- All versions are $18, including shipping and handling, and are provided on 3.5" :~rs will have unlimited-access to trolleys, as ~elI as buses, HD (high-density) floppy disks. Complete this coupon and send check or duri;'g the four days ortheconvention (Marcb 5-8). The trol~ey line will be a convenient and enjoY3:h1e way to travel money order (payable to ACDA) to: to the convention venues, and both buses and 'trolleys will ! ~ak6: visitors_.to m~y of the C!ty's major touri,st attractions Choral Journal Software Index l such as' Old -Town and the S~ Diego Zoo. "To receive your American Choral Directors Association trol~:eypass} be sure to include' a~ extra $10 per person with P.O. Box 6310 your: conven,~i,on p~yment an4 write ~RqL,""~y o~ your pre~ , regi~tration for~. . ", " , Lawton, OK 73506-0310 , {1 PAGE 94 CHORAL JOURNAL Jl\meldeaPest Imtel0:matimmalI Simgimg:, Festi~al AmericaFest is held on the dmpus of 5t. John's University in upper Minnesota. I , , 1996 Ameri~aF~stll1t~rl1ati(maICh~i;S::\'~'-1 "",r'.; > . ;,.' "" .•. ,., •...••.. ',.', .• ' .'''' of Men~nd 'Soys: .' .•...... ,•. ' ". ,..•.•.. ,., .',' •• '. . )'7he AmericaFe,stexperiencewas even gre,ater than! hadarticipated.A~,woriderful as it was musically, it , • Quatlro\SlagioniPrafessional Quarlel",Norwi:ly ,'was also so muph more. I am iildeed proud to have b,een a part olAmericaFest, and I am so glad our, --" ''', • The Am~ricanBoyc~oir~USA;>' .'" ;1."" , 'choristers were~able to share in the experience." " " ' , ,-,,' ~ .- ./ ' • Adol.tFr~l:iril Let Music Live Peace TCC-1080 TCC-1020 Turtle CD$18/TN/A CD$18/T$13 Family A Roamin' TCC-1070 Holiday CD$18/T$13 TCC-1060 fJreek Uhorale CD $18 1T$13 The Times of Day When We No RR-67 Longer Touch CD$18/TN/A TCC-1030 CD$18 IT$13 The Gershwin Scrapbook After Goodbye: TCC-1090 An AIDS Story CD$18/T$13 Video TCC-303 v$22 Requiem AA-57 United We Sing CD$18/T$13 TCC-1050 CD $22 1T$18 Postcards RA-61 United We Sing CD $18 IT$13 Video TCC-503 v$22 Testament RA-49 Everything's LET MUSIC LIVE THE TIMES OF DAY CD $18 IT $13 Possible Sounds of the 20th Century. TCC is joined by TCC sings all-German repertoire including TCC-1040 From the Hearl CD$18 IT N/A the SMU Symphonic Orchestra and The Strauss' Die Tageszeiten (The Times of Day) TCC-1010 Women's Chorus of Dallas. Featuring world and Brahms' Rhapsody, Op. 53 featuring CD $18 IT NA premieres of The Awailening by Joseph Martin Melanie Sonnenberg. "Melanie Sonnenberg is Simply and Missa II by Gyorgy Orban. a mezzo to die for." - mE AUDIO ADVENTURE Christmas TCC-1100 CD$18/T$13 JANUARY 1997 PAGE 95 ADVERTISERS Index of Convention Participants INDEX Adams, Charlotte ...... 15,17,46 Menotri, Gian Carlo ...... 22,23,33 JANUARY 1997 Alexander, John ...... 14,15,53 Minin, Vladimir...... 11,12,14,28 ACFEA Tour Consu!t::Ints ...... 34 Armstrong, Anton ...... 21,22,39 Mount Whitney High School Pioneer Choir ...... 14,15,52 Allia~ce; for ArtS and Understanding ...... 95 Allianr::e Music PuhliCltions ...... ,...... ~ ...... 44 Austin Peay State University Chamber Morslri Zvutsi Choir ...... 13,14,17,19,71 Ambissildor Tmvel Service ...... 55 Singers ...... 19,21,23,45,78 Moscow Chamber Choir ...... 11,12,14,28 Am~rican Boychoir Schoo! ...... 49 AmeriCin Choir F~[ival ...... 20 Ave Chamber Choir ...... 11,12,25 Neuen, Donald ...... 14,88 Arizo'na State: UniYersi[), ...... 71 Jacob Av~halomoY ...... 42 Bailey, Donald ...... 15,18,45,81 Pacific Chorale ...... 14,15,53 Bare!lrdter~Vc:r1ng ...... 7 Beautiful Star Publi~bing, Inc...... 67 Baylor University A Cappella Choir ...... 13,15,18,45,81 Paulus, Stephen ...... 21,22,42 Am.lfe..v K. Black Engineering ...... C3 Boosey & Hawkes ...... 43,63 Blackstone, Jerry ...... 14,15,60 Portland State University Chamber Choir ...... 21,23,54 Bosron University ...... ,...... 54 Bode, Robert ...... 21,89 Ohrt, Joseph ...... 84 Butler University .,'" ...... "...... B3 John .Cabot Corpomtion ...... ,...... ,...... 5 Bradford, Barlow ...... 14,15,62 Oklahoma State Universiry Concert Chorale ...... 22,23,35 California State Univcrshy. Long BC3cb ...... '~ ...... 67 California Smte University. Los Angeles ...... 31 Brimmer, Timothy ...... 17,76 Orfeon Univetsitario Simon Bollvar ...... 11,12,14,28,77 Cantate Music Press ...... ,... ,...... "...... ,..... ,...... ,." ...... 75 Brookey, Jeffrey ...... 21,22,47 Quilichini, Elaine ...... 69 ~:~t~I~~~;::~ ..:.~!!.~~~ .. :::=:::::::::::::;:::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~ Cbo'l?ll Support Servic~ ...... ,.... :...... ,...... 32 Browne, Bruce ...... 21,23,55 Ray, Robert ...... 21,83 Cbo,ralPrep RcconJings ...... ,...... 77 Calgary Girls' Choir ...... 17,69 Rivers, Earl ...... 21,22,39 Cho,rnlWeb Publishing, Inc ...... 59 Cho,ralyre Company ...... ,...... ,... ,...... - .... ::...... ,., .... 88 Central Bucks High School-West Chamber Choir ..... 21,84 Radde, J ames ...... 74 Chri~t United Methodist Church, Memphis. TN ...... 6B.72 Col~~ell Arts Management ...... "...... ,... ,...... ,..... 61 Chamberlain, Bruce ...... 15,18,61,90 Rutter, John ...... 13,17,87 Conyer~ Pr~byterian Cburch, Conyers. GA ...... ". 60 Irene Corey Design l\ssociares ...... "...... 50 Chapel of Charlemagne ...... 21,82 Saez, Diana V ...... 17,68 C*S Travel Service. Inc ...... "...... B7 Cherry Creek High School Girls' 21 ...... 15,17,46 San Diego Chamber Orchestta ...... 22,23.33 DeKillb International Choral FestiYaI ...... ~ ...... 5B DJ R,ccords ...... ," ...... _, ...... "...... ,. 68 Children's Honor Choir ...... 21,22,39 San Juan Children's Choir ...... 11,12,17,30,69 Doubleware Publications ...... ,., ... ,...... ,', ...... ". 76 Drinker Library of Chorn! Music ...... 30 Chonev, Marin ...... 13,14,17, 19,72 Scheibe, Jo-Michael ...... 15,18,60 ECS Publisbing ...... ,.. ,., ...... ,"', ...... B EMI:Music Canada ...... 51.61,65,72 Community Honor Choir ...... 21,22,39 Schwarrzhoff, Gaty R ...... 22,23,37 Em0ii' University ...... ,...... ,..... ,...... ,...... 64 EuropC3n Incoming Services ...... "...... ,...... 6 Cooksey, John M ...... 13,67 Seattle Girls' Choir Prime Voci ...... 14,55 Fellowship of American Bap[i~t Musicians ...... 45 Cox, Nancy ...... 21,22,39 Seaward, Jeffrey A ...... 14,15,49 Firs~iUnited Methodist Church, Austin. TX ...... 37 Mark Foster Music Company ...... "...... 73 Davis, Kenneth ...... 21,23,57 Seelig, Timothy ...... 19,20,58 Mark Foster Music Tours ...... 46 Cati:\ovay Music Festi\'al .... "...... ,...... ," ...... 56,77 Dehning, William ...... 80 Sepulveda, Sonja Atkinson ...... 85 R. C:;.eissler. Inc ...... ,...... ".. ,', ...... ," ...... 29 Gentry Publications ...... 65 Thomas Downey High School Madrigal Singers ...... 90 Shasberger, Michael ...... 17,76 G.I.A. Publications. Inc...... B2 Edmundson, Morna ...... 11,12,17,25,83 Shirey, Ronald ...... 22,23,36 g;e~:~~:I~!~i:~i·~fM·~i~·:::::=:~:::::::::~::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ;~ Elektra Women's Choir ...... 11,12,17,25,83 Stegall, James C...... 14,15,64 Hammond Music Service ...... ,', ...... ,...... ,...... 35 Herirage Festivals ...... ,...... ,..... 10 Eric Ericson Chamber Choir ...... 11,12,13,26 Stoltzfus, Fred ...... 19,20,59 Interlochen Center for the Arts ...... ,.. ,...... ,.. ,' ...... 77 International Tmvel Consultants ...... BI Eticson, Eric ...... 11,12,13,27 Sumtet High School Renaissance Singers ...... 21,85 Intropa International/USA, Inc...... 64 Ja~on Prepamtory School ...... ,', .. ,...... 85 Eskelin, Gerald ...... 19,20,51,67 Tam, Jing Ling ...... 19,70 Just,onicTuning. Inc...... ,.. 86 Eubank, Steve ...... 86 Telfer, Nancy ...... 14,88 Kapellmeister Enterprises. In~ ...... "...... 78 KingS\vnyTours ...... ,...... ,...... 92 Feiszli, James D ...... 17,76 Temple University Music Prep Children's ~~~~u~:r;:~~;~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. ~~:=:::'='i; Clare Fischet and Ftiends ...... 20,46 Choir ...... 15,17,56 Lawrence University ", ...... "...... ,...... 79 Foothill High School Chamber Singers ...... 21,22,47 Texas Christian University Concert Chotale ...... 22,23,36 ~,~~~~~~e~~~i~!.l.:::.:.~.~:::.i.~.~.. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~i Lyril,= Choir Gown Company ...... 69 Fort Zumwalt North Middle School Eighth-grade Texas Tech University Choir ...... 21,23,56 Male Ensemble Nortbwest ...... "...... 63 Concert Choir ...... 48 Thomas, Andre] ...... 13,19,72,81 Malmark. Inc...... ,', ...... ,... 37 Man'ager Software ...... Go Fowells, Robert M ...... 21,82 Tilman, David F ...... 17,68 MitlAmetict ProdUCtions ...... ,...... 23,66 E. It. Moore Company ...... ,...... 78 Fulton, Kenneth ...... 19,78 Topeka High School Madrigals ...... 21,85 Musica Mundi. Inc...... ,.. ".. "...... "...... 27 Musica Romanica ...... "...... ," B5 Galvan, Janet ...... 21,70 Topping, David ...... 17,77 Music Around the Globe ...... "...... 85 Golden West High School Trailblazer Concert Traverse Ciry Central High School Chorale ...... 19,73 Music ContaCt International ...... ,.... C2 MusicF~t Orlando, Inc...... " ... ~ ...... ,...... :.... 70 Choir ...... 14,15,49 Turtle Creek Chorale ...... 19,20,57 MUsic Maestro, Please. Inc ...... 16 Ne\~ York Choral Socie[)' ...... "...... B4 Grau, Alberto ...... 11,12,14,29,77 Two-Year College Honor Choir ...... 21,22,41 Nortb Americnn Music Festival ...... 24 Guinand, Marfa ...... 11,12,14,30,77 University of California, Los Angeles Chorale ...... 14,88 ~~1r~i;~::S::!~:;~f ~:::it~::.. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~i Oregon Bach Festival ...... ,., ...... 18 Hatcher, William B...... 21,22,41 University of Colorado at Boulder University Oxford University Press. Inc...... ~ ...... 62 Hauptman, Andrai ...... 11,12,25 Choir ...... 19,20,58 Part' Predominant Recordings ...... 80 Pc:ery ProductS Compnny, Inc...... 3B Indianapolis Children's Choir ...... 19,50 University of Illinois Chorale ...... 19,20,59 J. W. Pepper ...... ,', ...... 61 PJ&A5J.ociates,lnc...... "...... ,...... 51 Jackson, Dan ...... 14,15,52 University of Miami Chorale ...... 15,18,59 Pocket Coach Publications ...... ,., .... ,...... 63 Ply~outh Music Company, Inc...... "...... "...... 92 Jacobs, Trey ...... 15,18,65 University of Michigan Men's Glee Club ...... 14,15,60 Poclte[ Conch Publications ... ,...... 63 Regency Cap ilnd Gown ...... ", ...... 29 Jacobson, Joshua R ...... 13,81 University of North Dalcota Concett Choir ...... 19,74 St. Norbert College ...... ,...... ,..... "...... 84 Jordan, Randy ...... 15,18,51 University of Northern Iowa Concert Sanln Fe Desert Chomle ...... 50 SOC Records ...... ,.... "...... ,...... 7B Junior High School Honor Choir ...... 21,22,39 Chorale ...... 15,18,61,90 Sd~h Publishing Company ...... ,', .... ,...... ,...... 70 Sig~ature Music Software ...... ,...... ,., ...... 62 Kaptein, Lawrence ...... 19,20,58 University of Southern California Chamber Singers Sm'oky Mountain Music Festival ...... "...... 40 Kesling, Willard ...... 75 and Concert Choir ...... 22,80 ~:~~::::::;::n i~:~:~ i1;~·~·i~~i;i·s;:;;i~~~·::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: :~ L.A. Jazz Choir ...... 19,20,50,67 University of Texas at Arlington Chamber Singers .... 19,69 Soutbwestern Community College ...... "...... , 93 Suwi,i Music Corporation ...... ,...... ,...... 57 Larimer, Russell ...... 73 University ofWisconsin-Eau Claire Concert Tempo\Yatch Company ...... ,.,', ... ,...... ,...... 37 Te~as Tech University ...... "...... ,, ... ,.,.81 Leck, Henry ...... 19,50 Choir ...... 22,23,36 TIlomas Creative Apparel. Inc ...... ,.,." ...... 82 Gene Thomas Music Group ...... ,.. "...... 12 LeSan, Gregory S ...... 49 Utah Chamber Artists ...... 14,15,61 Trnnscolltinemal Music Publications ...... "...... 35 Tri~ity United Methodist Church, Palm Beach Gardens, FL ...... 61 Letson, Roget ...... 20,63 Utah State University Chamber Singers ...... 19,75 Tu'rtle Creek Chorale ...... ,95 Loomer, Diane ...... 11,12,17,26,83 Vasche, Polly ...... 90 Tuxedo Discount ...... ,.. ,...... 49 University of Cincinnnd {::ollege-Cooservamry of Music ...... 89 Ludo Cordova, Evy ...... 11,12,31,69 Vocal Flight ...... 20,62 University of Illinois ..... ;.;, ...... ".... "...... 48 Univer~ity of Southern Qtlifornin ...... 76 Mabry, George L...... 21,23,45,78 Weir, Michele ...... 21,78 University ofWiscon~in..:Mi\dison ...... "... , ...... 75 University ofWisconsin':"Milwaukee ...... ,...... 94 James Martin High School Chorale ...... 15,18,51 Western Illinois University Singers ...... 14,15,64 Vocal Power. Inc...... "...... 26 McCoy, Jerty ...... 22,23,35 Willoughby-Miller, Judith ...... 15,17,56 Fre~ Waring's America ...... ,.... "" ...... - ...... ~ ...... ,,...... 74 Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers ...... 15,18,51 Winter Park High School Concert Choir ...... 15,18,65 ~±:~~~::~,~t~~~;~~~·;:i;:::~:~~:::~~~;::~i::::=:=::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~ McNeil, AlbertJ ...... 15,18,52 Wrighr,Jerome ...... 14,56 , Witte Travel ...... ,...... ,...... 59 W~tld Projects Corporation ...... 88 Melone, Roger ...... 22,23,34 Zaslaw, Neal ...... 21,22,79 PAGE 96 CHORAL JOURNAL THE BLACK FOLDER The World's Best Choral Folder 6900 Marconi Street, Huntington Park, California 90255 Call (213) 588-9000 See you at the ACDA National Convention in San Diego, CA Booth 650 1 - 10 $15.00each Come see, touch, and 11 20 $14.00 each experience 21 - 50 $13.00 each THE BLACK FOLDER 51 - 100 $12.00 each photo credit: Victoria Mihich "Why would you use any other folder" Paul Salamunovich - L.A. Master Chorale Inside cross-strap holds loose music from YOU DON'T HAVE TO HOLD IT. sliding out the bottom. Elastic cord installed IT HOLDS YOU. in aluminum hinge holds music in place for complete security. THE BLACK FOLDER - Designed for the Los Angeles Master Chorale - Now available for your church choir or singing ensemble. Singing with THE BLACK FOLDER allows singers to hold their music up better, follow their directors better, and give better performances. Large bellows pockets expand to hold more music. Also available: Double elastics (for a total of 20 strands per folder) $1.00 additional per folder Button-Down Black Folder - for Director or Pianist use, contains inside strap with button to lay flat on music stand or piano. $2.00 additional per folder Also available through: Deer River Folio Company, Inc., P.O. Box 517, Deer River, Minnesota 56636 1111111111111111111111111111111111'111111111111111111 ****************** 3-DIGIT 391 CHORAL r-:'-:::I'"I ~,..; ~ ...... n:-I'"I Ci ...... -; CiQ7 ~ fJ .... '.J ! LJ ! '_'1_ !J!_I _. '_I'..)!..I 1_- _- • ,-'1 J. I , I .. 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