US ISSN 0009-5028 THE SEPTEMBER 1975 Official Publication of the AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION RI HMON MU IC P ES , INC. ROBERT THYGERSON DAVID N. DAVENPORT JACK KUNZ LEONARD VAN CAMP EUGENE BUTLER KENT A. NEWBURY WALTER EHRET JOHN A. RICHARDSON RUTH ARTMAN RICHARD OLIVER ~ ~..BB~I:.0LD A TINY BABE SATB Butler 35c ~HEPHERD, WHERE'D YOU LEAVE YOUR LAMB? - SATB ......•......... Thygerson 35c CHRISTMAS FOR YOU AND ME - SSA ............•.......•............... Kunz 35c JESUS SLEEPIN' SO PEACEFUL SATB .....• , .••.... , ......••••...••..... Ehret 35c A CHRISTMAS GREETING - SATB ........•...••....••••.............. Davenport 30c SING OUT YE CHRISTIANS - SATB ......•.............•.•............... Ehret 35c SING OUT YE CHRISTIANS SSA. .....•....•........••............... .. Ehret 35c COME HEAR THE WONDERFUL TIDINGS -- SAB ......••................ Thygerson 40c MARY'S LULLABY - SATB ..................•.••.................... Davenport 35c o REJOICE YE CHRISTIANS LOUDLY - SAB ....................•..... Richardson 30c BUT IT AIN'T EASY SATB. ................•.......................... .. Kunz 35c BUT IT AIN'T EASY - SSA ........................••••.................... Kunz 35c BUT IT AIN'T EASY - S(S)AB Kunz 35c ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE - SATB ..•...................•.••••...... Thygerson 35c WITH A UTILE BIT OF HELP - SATB •...........•.••.......•.......... Thygerson 35c SILENT THE FOREST SATB ...•....•.....•....••••••..•....••.....•.••... Butler 35c VOICES IN FESTIVAL SSAATTBB ............•.••••...... , ...••...... Davenport 35c ON THE LONG WAY LEFT TO GO SATB Kunz 40c SOUNDS OF HOPE - SATB ......•••.........................••......•. Artman 40c OPEN UP DOOR TO TOMORROW - SATB ....•........................... Oliver 35c LIKE A RIVER Thygerson 40c UP Artman 40c AT LAST THE KINGDOM HAS COME - SATB .......•..••......•....... Davenport 35c ~ETlMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD SAB .•.•..........••.. 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Should you know of any tional Convention Chairperson for 1977 CHANGE OF ADDRESS , I Waco, Texas September 4 and 5, 1975 Chicago, II. September 18 and 19, 1975 Richmond, Va. September 25 and 26, 1975 Birmingham, AI. October 2 and 3, 1975 FEATURING: Performances of two new major choral works Two reading sessions covering music for all ages Appearances by noted composers including: Kurt Kaiser (Oir. of Music and Vice President, Word, Inc.) RALPH CARMICHAEL (Presi­ dent, Lexicon Music, Inc.) CHARLES F. BROWN (Oir. of Music Publications, Word Music, Inc.) and others yet to be announced Registration fee includes music packet, admissions and lunch. For more information, write to Noni Wells, Music Promotion Manager, Word, Inc., Box 1790, Waco, Tx. 76703. SEPTEMBER 1975 .. "I say almost because I think their Choirs and their directors attending the VIENNA SYMPOSIUM HAS penetrating power would have been a Symposium were from the University of little too modest in a regular concert hall. Delaware, Newark, Peter Jo McCarthy, SUCCESSfUL CONCLUSION But all desires were satisfied in the Fest­ director; University of South Alabama, saal of the Old University where Joseph Mobile, Malcolm Griffin, director; West­ Commenting on the Beethoven Missa Haydn listened in 1808 for the last time minster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, Solemnis, presented June 28 at the con­ to his "Schoepfung" and, after a self­ David H. Williams, director; Bethel Col­ clusion of the ACDA-CIR Symposium, conscious beginning, the choir became an lege, Newton, Kansas, David H. Suder­ the Presse critic wrote, "I am glad to assured performing group. man, director; Agnes Scott College, De­ alter my report concerning the Festwo­ "We have to congratulate Guenther catur, Georgia, Theodore Mothews, di­ chen (Festival week) performance of Theuring as the leader of the Symposium, rector; and the San Mateo Chorale, San Beethoven's Missa. It does not concern who offered once again a brilliant ac­ Mateo, California, Galen Marshall, direc­ the rarity of the presentation - two per­ complishment. And once again we had to tor. formances within one week sneer at sta­ admire the USA because of their College Several teachers attending the Symposi­ tistics - but the ability to perform the choirs, the extension, density, and quality um conducted a select choir in a Mozart Missa, which I thought could only be of this beautiful kind of music making Mass in C (K 115) at the Eisenstadt Ca­ presented by a professional choir. The as well as the. _motivation and energy of thedral on Sunday, June 29, which was six combined College and University these young people. (It could only occur followed by a visit to the Esterhazy Pa­ choirs mastered the enormous