Eastern Division R & S

Community Choirs

Chairperson:  Steven Russell

Steven Russell is the Artistic Director of the New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus, and the Director of Sacred Music at the Parish of St. Thomas More in Manalapan, New Jersey. He is also the President of the New Jersey Choral Consortium.
www.stevenarussell.com 
hemiola@optonline.net

"Western Choral Music Sung by Farmers in Chinese Rural Fields," article by Li Xi.
Li Xi is the founding conductor of the Shenzhen Yantian Foreign Language Primary School
Children’s Choir in China which she began in 2001. In July 2010, the choir won the gold medal
in the Champions Competition of the 6th World Choir Games, demonstrating its enormous development
over the past decade. Xi enjoys collecting folk music and adapting the folk music
into a cappella songs. She is a member of the International Federation for Choral Music
(IFCM), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the China Choral Association,
and the China Society of Music Education (CSME)

Community Chorus Links:
National ACDA Community Chorus Page
National ACDA Community Chorus Registry
Choral Arts New England
Choral Public Domain Library
Choralnet
Chorus America
GALA Choruses
Hear the Choirs Sing
Musica International
The Singer Link
Vocal Area Network

Choral Consortia:
Association of Connecticut Choruses
New Jersey Choral Consortium
New York Choral Consortium
Greater Boston Choral Consortium
Greater Rochester Choral Consortium
Great Lakes Male Chorus Association
New England Area Community Chorus Association

Retail sites:
BriLee Music
ECS Publishing
Earthsongs
J. W. Pepper
Santa Barbara Music Publishing
Sheet Music Plus
Stantons Sheet Music
Yelton Rhodes Music

2011 National ACDA Conference
Community Chorus Reading Session

At The Round Earth's Imagined Corner - Williametta Spencer
Dream Within A Dream - Debra Scroggins
How Can I Keep From Singing? - Arr. Karen P. Thomas
Let God Arise - Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky
Ring Out Wild Bells - Gwyneth Walker
Elegy For Dachau - Matthew Armstrong
In The Bleak Midwinter - G. Holst/Arr. Council
Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal - Arr. Alice Parker
Life's Mirror - Eleanor Daley
Shenandoah - Arr. James Erb
Magnificat - Thomas Tallis/Ed. Alwes
Va Pensiero - Giuseppe Verdi/Arr. Liebergen
If Music Be The Food Of Love - David Dickau
Great Day - Carol Barnett

The music above is listed with links to purchase and listen at the J.W. Pepper website. First you have to be registered at J.W. Pepper. This costs nothing. If you aren't, go to www.jwpepper.com and register for their website. Then, once you are registered, go to www.jwpepper.com/acda and use the same login information. Then just follow through.

Last revised September 01, 2011