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		<title>Wilberg Requiem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read a review by Catherine Reese Newton on The Salt Lake Tribune
Excerpt:
&#8220;Wilberg&#8217;s Requiem, which the 360-voice choir premiered last year as part of the Salt Lake Tabernacle rededication celebration, is as gentle and life-affirming as one would expect from him. As musical settings of the Roman Catholic funeral Mass go, it belongs to the Fauré/Brahms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/60</link>
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		<title>an example of how we should live together as a community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this quote from Cathy Crispino, the 2008 Kansas Music Educators Association’s High School Choral Teacher of the Year]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/59</link>
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		<title>Live Monteverdi Concert from Trinity Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I type I&#8217;m listening to an amazing all-Monteverdi concert from Trinity Church in NY. This performance is great and very moving. Of course, I love music of the Renaissance. As a masters candidate that was one of my areas of study; one of the funest semesters of my college career.
You can also listen to and watch this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/58</link>
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		<title>Graphite Publishing Call for Sacred Choral Scores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Postmark Deadline: February 15, 2008
Graphite Publishing—Call for Scores
Graphite Publishing asks composers to submit unpublished sacred works for voice or chorus (any voicing) with organ for possible publication and promotion at upcoming AGO National Conference. Graphite Publishing is a music publishing company focused on presenting emerging composers and their works to the music industry by offering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/57</link>
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		<title>Choral Project call for Scores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeks short, original, unpublished, unperformed, and recent compositions for accompanied or unaccompanied choir (sacred or secular, in any language), for 4- to 6-part mixed choir (occasional 8-part divisi is acceptable) from high school students (grades 9-12) and undergraduate college students for their First Annual Choral Composition Contest. Cash awards, performance, recording, and possible publication.]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/35</link>
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		<title>Essentially Choral Call for Scores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Essentially Choral Call for Scores
Application Deadline: 3/14/2008Seeks scores for the seventh annual Essentially Choral reading session and workshops to be held May 29-31, 2008, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Up to five composers will be selected to have their work read by VocalEssence. One of those five may receive a $3,500 commission to write a new work.
Details
2008 Brochure (PDF)Deadline: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/56</link>
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		<title>San Francisco Choral Artists Composition Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco Choral Artists
Application Deadline: 2/4/2008Seeks short, unperformed, SATB choral works from composers under 30 which &#8220;honors those who pursue creativity and hope in the midst of despair: music which celebrates light in times of darkness&#8221; for their New Voices Competition. Performances in Bay Area, cash awards, and CD recording of performance.
Details
New Voices Competition &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/55</link>
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		<title>Choral Commissioning Program through ACF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACF is partnering with GALA Choruses Inc. (an international organization serving the GLBT choral movement) to launch a pilot Community Partners program. This program will result in grants of $6,000 to two GALA-member choruses to commission two composers to create a new work for each of them.
Designed for choruses with limited (or no) commissioning experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/54</link>
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		<title>Acapella choral composition competition hosted by The Esoterics of Seatle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Esoterics announces an international call for a cappella choral scores, as this Pacific Northwest ensemble announces its annual competition for choral composition, POLYPHONOS (from the Greek word for having many voices or manifold in expression).
The Esoterics is dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary a cappella choral settings of poetry, philosophy, and spiritual writings from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/53</link>
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		<title>Understanding &#8220;The Human Instrument&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ingo Titze, one of the foremost names in vocal pedagogy &#8211; specializing in the scientific study of the voice, has written a wonderful article for Scientific American explaining how The Human Instrument can compete with other instruments in terms of pitch range and loudness.
This excellent article should be of interest to anyone wanting to know more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/52</link>
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		<title>Essentially Choral Reading Session</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Composers Forum and VocalEssence provide this opportunity: 
Essentially Choral Reading Session (click for details and application)
May 29 &#8211; 31, 2008
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis
Up to five composers will be selected to have their works-in-progress read by the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, a 32-voice professional chorus directed by Philip Brunelle, and professional orchestra musicians. New York composer Daniel Godfrey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/51</link>
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		<title>2008 Emerging Composers Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For your information (thanks to acapella news for pointing this out):
Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition (2008) Guidelines
Eligibility: Composers should be in the early stages of their musical careers. Yale alumni may participate, but current Yale students are not eligible. Employees of Yale University and previous Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition are not eligible.
Guidelines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/50</link>
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		<title>One Foot in Eden : External Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One Foot in Eden Still, I Stand&#8221; : Choral music by Nicholas Maw
Review on Opera Today here:
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2008/01/one_foot_in_ede.php
Looks like there is some pretty interesting work on the CD.
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		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/49</link>
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		<title>Standing Room Only, BYU Singers &amp; Eric Whitacre concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to an informal concert on January 8th of Eric Whitacre&#8217;s music performed by the Brigham Young University Singers (the schools most advanced choral group) at the BYU Museum of Art by a Facebook friend (ah, the wonders of the internet). What she didn&#8217;t say was, be sure to arrive early if you want to get a seat. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/48</link>
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		<title>No snakes or pirates, please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an article about a director, Lynda Ables, that has served her choir for 30 years. I thought this was kind of cute:
Instead of scolding singers when they over emphasize an “r” sound, Ables affectionately tells them, “There are no pirates allowed in my choir,” Kahl said. When they over emphasize an “s” sound, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/47</link>
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		<title>Phoenix Rising &#8211; Why I Started a New Choir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I few months ago I decided to start a new choir. I&#8217;d thought about it for a long time and had many reasons for wanting to do it, including:

Since being a member of several advanced choirs when I was younger, I&#8217;ve longed to sing that kind of vocal literature. I&#8217;ve directed a church choir for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/46</link>
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		<title>Join a Choir, live a longer fuller life with better health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January seems to be the month to focus on health and fitness. We are daily bombarded with news stories on ways to lose pounds or get fit. Being a bit rounder than I&#8217;d like to be, I generally listen, but I really perked up when I saw this headline:  No sweat &#8211; sing yourself to better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/45</link>
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		<title>Become a &#8220;Handbell Hero&#8221; with this game!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need something to do over the Christmas Break? Well, it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to while away a few hours playing &#8220;Handbell Hero&#8221; (opens new window), a rhythm-matching knockoff of the popular Guitar Hero. No, there is no choir involved, but since choirs and handbell choirs often perform together I thought you might be interested.
You can help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/44</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Qui Tollis&#8221; sing-a-long (Vivaldi)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video 
&#8220;Qui Tollis&#8221; sing-a-long (Vivaldi) with the John Alldis Choir 
Get 25 FREE iPod® compatible downloads from eMusic!
Choose from over 2.8 Million songs!
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		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/42</link>
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		<title>Tabloid claims &#8220;Singing Cures Everything&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O.K., so I made up the quote, but it does seem to cure an awful lot. See A Cappella News for the full story, excerpted from the UK Sun.
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		<link>http://articles.choirworks.com/archives/41</link>
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