{"id":42,"date":"2011-07-07T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2011\/07\/07\/marketing-new-choral-piece\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:14:48","slug":"marketing-new-choral-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/marketing-new-choral-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing a new Choral Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/projects\/guild2010christmas\/Song_of_Angels__Bouguereau.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 140px; height: 141px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/projects\/guild2010christmas\/Song_of_Angels__Bouguereau.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNew choral music for Christmas, arrangements of unusual Christmas songs, seems like an easy sell. Doesn&#8217;t every choral director need something fresh for the regular December concert?<\/p>\n<p>I have a soft spot for obscure Christmas songs, and I was quite taken with Carols and Lullabies by Conrad Susa when I first heard it on the same program with Britten&#8217;s Ceremony of Carols. (Here&#8217;s another Massachusetts chorus doing the Britten\/Susa program [Chorus Pro Musica].) Right away, I wanted to my own set of carols with harp. My set <strong>Shepherds and Angels<\/strong>\u00a0includes a prelude and 9 songs: early New England and Appalachian songs, both earthy, energetic revivalist singing and the most tender and gentle lullabies. I added a violin for some fiddling flavor.<\/p>\n<p>So how do I get the word out to all the choral directors who need music like this? The 200+ postcards and 300+ emails I sent are just a drop in the bucket. There is also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choralnet.org\/\">ChoralNet forum<\/a>, which includes a community of composers. From that effort, I&#8217;ve arranged two performances and I hope there will be more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themastersingers.org\/\">The Mastersingers<\/a> will give the eastern Massachusetts premiere and Geneva College will premiere it in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the demo of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/shepherds-and-angels-chorus\/\">Shepherds and Angels<\/a><\/strong> and tell me what you think. (Scroll down to the Listen heading. No words &#8211; it&#8217;s computer-generated. You can follow along in the PDF score as you listen.) [Update: The title now links to the Spindrift store where there are links to a PDF preview score, and audio for the premiere performance and the no-words demo.]<\/p>\n<p>Do you know a chorus that might be interested? If you sing in or direct a chorus, is it too hard or too easy for your group?<\/p>\n<p>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/shepherds-and-angels-chorus\/\"><strong>Shepherds and Angels<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the programming you need for your local Christmas concert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New choral music for Christmas, arrangements of unusual Christmas songs, seems like an easy sell. 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