What music and what composers should every choir be singing?
• Hymn Concertatos by John Ferguson! They are simple but artistic and always contain what I call “The F. Melius Verse”, which shines but doesn’t get out of hand. • Paul Bouman and Helen Kemp for younger singers, they challenge but understand reality of what they can do. Michael Burkhardt, Carolyn Jennings. • Sherry Porterfield and Alan Pote for adolescents and youth, you can’t go wrong. • Andre Thomas, Moses Hogan for arrangements of multi-cultural music Do the great music of the ages. Many things are accessible. Lamb of God, by Christiansen, is doable. Q: Do you have any final thoughts? A: I am looking forward to the summer clinics. They’re exhausting, but it’s so great to meet so many people in so many different areas of the country. Anton Armstrong was recently awarded the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching sponsored bi-annually by Baylor University. The final three candidates were Anton, a Historian and a Physicist. Anton came away feeling there was no way they would giv
