20-30 minute piece for international choir workshop
Posted: 03 Jan 2013 14:26
Hello,
I'm a newly registered member from a mixed German a capella chamber choir of ca. 25 singers, and I + our conductor are hoping for some repertoire recommendations.
And I hope that I am in the right forum for this.
During the past years, my choir has been invited twice to a choir workshop in Poland. In 2013 we will invite the Polish choir to our first own workshop in Germany, plus 20 "free" participants from our region at the Baltic Sea Coast.
We are now urgently looking for a workshop piece to prepare alone in ca. 5 weekly advance rehearsals and then together with the Polish choir and guest singers during the workshop weekend (including a final performance). Our own singers are an odd mix of untrained and semi-trained singers, aged 23-72, but so far we have nevertheless been doing very well at regional competitions and transregional festivals. The Polish choir is pretty good, but we do not know anything yet about the "guest singers".
Workshop history: Our Polish hosts so far selected the "Missa brevis" by Jan Szopinski and the "Missa Festiva" by Alexander Grechaninov as their - very successful - workshop pieces. The next piece (i.e. "our" piece) should not be any more difficult than that, but not too simple, either.
Other requirements:
20-30 min. total length, a cappella or with organ/piano accompaniment, maybe some percussion or even soloist(s) or individual instrument(s), but not a full orchestra (limited budget);
Latin would be ideal to save everybody language difficulties (e.g. another short mass). The style can be anything from 15th century to "modern", but no jazz, gospel, show, pop, etc. Nothing too mainstream, if possible.
I know it is difficult, but I would really be very grateful for some ideas.
Thank you very much in advance - dietlinde
I'm a newly registered member from a mixed German a capella chamber choir of ca. 25 singers, and I + our conductor are hoping for some repertoire recommendations.
And I hope that I am in the right forum for this.
During the past years, my choir has been invited twice to a choir workshop in Poland. In 2013 we will invite the Polish choir to our first own workshop in Germany, plus 20 "free" participants from our region at the Baltic Sea Coast.
We are now urgently looking for a workshop piece to prepare alone in ca. 5 weekly advance rehearsals and then together with the Polish choir and guest singers during the workshop weekend (including a final performance). Our own singers are an odd mix of untrained and semi-trained singers, aged 23-72, but so far we have nevertheless been doing very well at regional competitions and transregional festivals. The Polish choir is pretty good, but we do not know anything yet about the "guest singers".
Workshop history: Our Polish hosts so far selected the "Missa brevis" by Jan Szopinski and the "Missa Festiva" by Alexander Grechaninov as their - very successful - workshop pieces. The next piece (i.e. "our" piece) should not be any more difficult than that, but not too simple, either.
Other requirements:
20-30 min. total length, a cappella or with organ/piano accompaniment, maybe some percussion or even soloist(s) or individual instrument(s), but not a full orchestra (limited budget);
Latin would be ideal to save everybody language difficulties (e.g. another short mass). The style can be anything from 15th century to "modern", but no jazz, gospel, show, pop, etc. Nothing too mainstream, if possible.
I know it is difficult, but I would really be very grateful for some ideas.
Thank you very much in advance - dietlinde