Featured Piece: Landslide
Today’s featured arrangement is this a cappella SSATB version of Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide.
Repertoire List
Repertoire lists from my ensembles.
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. […]
Rockford Aces Repertoire 2021-22
The Aces endeavor to sing in as many musical styles as possible each year, with no discrimination except quality of music. In that spirit, the entire list is organized alphabetically, as in our folders (except music for December, which goes at the end…) This was the first year with a […]
Best Way To Find New Repertoire
One of the best ways to find new repertoire is one that didn’t exist not too long ago. I love to see the programs posted online by the colleagues I most respect. The repertoire they’re programming is, by definition, the repertoire I want to program, and while not everything they […]
Shades of Blue Repertoire List 2020-21
It’s my end-of-school-year tradition to publish the repertoire my ensemble sang over the year. With my fourth year at GRCC in the books, here are the pieces Shades of Blue learned and performed. Shades of Blue had eight singers (2-2-2-2) in the fall semester and nine singers (2-2-3-2) in the […]
Rockford Aces Repertoire 2020-21
The Aces endeavor to sing in as many musical styles as possible each year, with no discrimination except quality of music. In that spirit, the entire list is organized alphabetically, as in our folders (except music for December, which goes at the end…) Despite the challenges of this year, we […]