Featured Piece: Fly Me To The Moon
Today’s featured piece: Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard)
Repertoire List
Repertoire lists from my ensembles.
Featured Piece: Straighten Up & Fly Right
Today’s featured piece: Straighten Up & Fly Right (Nat “King” Cole)
Featured Piece – Some Other Time
Today’s featured piece is this original miniature setting of a John Wooden quote.
Featured Piece – Flexibility
Today’s featured piece is this original miniature setting of a John Wooden quote.
Featured Piece: Landslide
Today’s featured arrangement is this a cappella SSATB version of Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide.
Best of Tin Pan Alley
I’ve spent a lot of hours listening to the great Tin Pan Alley songwriters – the ones who composed the core of the Great American Songbook/jazz standards. Along the way, I’ve developed some strong opinions about the songwriters’ output. Here’s my ranking of TPA songwriters. (Who did I select to […]
Aces Repertoire 2022-23
It’s my annual tradition to publish my repertoire list for my ensembles. Here’s this year’s Rockford Aces repertoire. The Aces endeavor to sing in as many musical styles as possible each year, with no discrimination except quality of music. We had maybe the biggest Aces Concert ever, our fifteenth anniversary […]
Shades of Blue Repertoire 2022-23
It’s my end-of-school-year tradition to publish the repertoire my ensemble sang over the year. With my sixth year at GRCC in the books, here are the pieces Shades of Blue learned and performed. This is the first year in which the ensemble stayed intact across both semesters – same four […]
Choir Tour Repertoire 2023
What are we singing on tour? The Rockford High School Touring Choir heads on the road to Spain next week, with performances in Barcelona, Montserrat, Valencia, Toledo, and Madrid. In preparation for the tour, 43 students have been rehearsing roughly monthly since August, preparing an hour of a cappella repertoire. […]
Shades of Blue Repertoire 2021-22
It’s my end-of-school-year tradition to publish the repertoire my ensemble sang over the year. With my fifth (!) year at GRCC in the books, here are the pieces Shades of Blue learned and performed. Shades of Blue had five singers in the fall semester and eleven singers in the winter. […]