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Tips and Tricks: Breaths
It might sound like the most obvious thing in the world, but it is incredibly important to consider breathing when writing music. There's...
Kiersten Honaker
Jan 143 min read
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Composer Highlight: James Woodhall
English composer James Woodhall knows that sometimes everyone struggles. As a response to this, he wrote the deeply personal “When...
Kiersten Honaker
Jan 131 min read
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William Byrd: This Day Christ Was Born
In case you're not up on your English Reformation history, let me give you a quick crash course, because it's relevant to this week's...
Kiersten Honaker
Dec 22, 20244 min read
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Wassail Song
Every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember, my mom has played the Leroy Anderson Christmas album she owns (for a very long...
Kiersten Honaker
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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Finding our voice in every language
So, what happens when RMCC gets music in a language they aren't familiar with? Step 1: Panic Okay, not really, but a little bit! Most...
Clifford W King
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Tomas Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium
I'm a huge fan of the O magnum mysterium text. It seems like a whole lot of composers are too, because it gets set a lot. It's rare for...
Kiersten Honaker
Dec 5, 20243 min read
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Staff Picks: DJ
One of our basses, DJ, has been singing with us for a long time. When we asked him to pick one of his favorite pieces from his time with...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Tips and Tricks: Target Dynamics
It's pretty easy to remember to include dynamics in a piece of music, especially at the beginning of the piece or in the beginning of a...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Christmas Commons: On Christmas Night
Find the RMCC recording, new edition of the score, and rehearsal aids for this piece here . This week we are featuring an arrangement of...
Clifford W King
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Composer Highlights
As performers and conductors and teachers (oh my!), sometimes we forget that a real person wrote the piece of music we're working so hard...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 19, 20241 min read
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Ned Rorem - "From an Unknown Past"
I've always been a big fan of Ned Rorem. He's a bit like the Kevin Bacon of 20th-century art—just a few degrees of separation link him to...
Clifford W King
Nov 18, 20243 min read
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Staff Picks
It can be easy, as a creator, to forget that there are actual people on the other side of your art, forming connections and finding...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 15, 20241 min read
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Christmas Commons: Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Find the RMCC recording, new edition of the score, and rehearsal aids for this piece here . Our first Christmas Commons is the familiar...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 14, 20241 min read
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Christmas Commons coming soon!
I was a high school music teacher with absolutely no budget and a very small library, so I became intimately familiar with the Choral...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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Tips and Tricks for Composers
All composers have one goal: to make their music as accessible as possible. Well, that's not quite it: they want their music performed ....
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 13, 20241 min read
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Song of Cork - Rosaz
This week we're featuring "Song of Cork" by long-time friend of RMCC Jean Christophe Rosaz. We've been lucky enough to record a lot of...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 12, 20241 min read
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Welcome!
Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir - Virtual Singers has been active for a while on YouTube , Instagram , and Facebook , but we wanted to...
Kiersten Honaker
Nov 8, 20242 min read
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