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One a Penny, Two a Penny...

Chances are good that if you’re a choral director, you already have a choice selection of canons in your bag...

Although he is little recognized today, the English composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) was one of the...

A Choral Work for Our Time.

Thoughts on how to keep music making alive during a pandemic.

This gem, beloved by my choirs, was a staple of my children’s choir repertoire for many years.

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the time has come for music educators to stop pussyfooting...

“Herring’s Head“ is a cumulative folksong that I have taught and sung with students of all ages at many schools over...

For about 25 years, I spent nearly every holiday season consumed by the preparations and execution of a big school...

In the contemporary climate of data-driven education, you don’t hear much about inspiration in the popular rhetoric about music education...

Around the country, the school year is coming to a close. For high school students, spring break is fast becoming...

A lovely eighteenth century canon you can make a staple of your school choirs’ repertoire.