SingAmen!: Recent Episodes
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We’re back! Sing Amen took a little hiatus after Christmas, but here at last is our first podcast of the new year. As most people know by now, World Library Publications has officially joined GIA as a new division of the company, and the past couple of months have been full of transitions and moves […]
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A Merry Christmas to everyone! If I did this right, this podcast dropped at right about midnight on Christmas Eve, and we hope you enjoy this gift of an hour or so of lovely Christmas choral music to let sing and play through your holy day! A word of welcome to our new subscribers—and if […]
The post Gloria in Excelsis!–A Christmas Playlist (Sing Amen! the Podcast, episode 25) appeared first on Sing Amen.
This episode is simply a lovely sampler of music, in various styles, to help us all move deeper into a spirit of gratitude and grace–peace to you all, and from all of us at GIA Publications, prayers and blessings for a beautiful Thanksgiving week! (Eat well, and get some rest. Advent is almost here. 😉 […]
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Today we have a conversation with choral conductor Michael Kemp, who has written several books including The Choral Challenge, Innovative Warm-ups for the Volunteer Choir, Rejuvenating Senior Voices (this book helps choir directors help our singers to deal with the vocal issues that begin to affect them as they age,) and his most recent book, […]
The post Igniting Choral Rehearsals–a conversation with Michael Kemp. (Sing Amen! the podcast, episode 23) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Today we have a special podcast episode to celebrate the month of the Most Holy Rosary, which is October. Father Liam Lawton has produced a new recording entitled “The Rosary: The Mysteries of Life,” (CD-1075) which will be released by GIA in the very near future. This project, recorded by Fr. Liam and the Poor […]
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This past summer, GIA welcomed our new Editor for Spanish and Bilingual Resources, Mr. Peter Kolar. Today’s podcast is a conversation with him about his life and work and his reflections on his experiences of music ministry within bilingual and multicultural communities. He was one of the directors for the GIA Showcase at NPM last […]
The post ¡Cantemos Amén!–A Conversation with Peter Kolar (Sing Amen! The Podcast, episode 21) appeared first on Sing Amen.
One of the great gifts to the singing Church in more recent years has been the wonderful outpouring of new hymn texts by our modern poet-theologians–people like Delores Dufner, Mary Louise Bringle, Herman Steumpfle, Sylvia Dunstan…and over the past decade or so, Adam Tice. Adam’s texts are rich and challenging, addressing many of the challenges […]
The post Guide Our Song: An Adam Tice Sampler (Sing Amen! The Podcast, episode 20) appeared first on Sing Amen.
When I look back over the past few decades, it feels as though I have spent a huge portion of my life as a professional musician dealing with tension, pain, stiff shoulders, tendinitis, and all kinds of bodily aches. Most of my colleagues would say the same, I expect. It never occurred to me to […]
The post Body Mapping: with Bridget Jankowski (Sing Amen! The Podcast, episode 19) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Okay, it’s been a while since our last podcast! It’s good to be back. Part of the learning curve for me with this site has been realizing when the crunch times come, so I can be ready for them…I’m just coming out of one of those crunch times, because in Publisher World, there is a […]
The post Show By Your Life: A Conversation with Lori True (Sing Amen! The Podcast: Episode 18) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Holy Week is upon us. I figured that at this precise moment in our musical lives no one listening here is looking particularly for new repertoire or deep thoughts or formational development—we are looking to get through the week with beauty and prayerfulness, we are creating folders and scripts and parts for the trumpet players […]
The post Night Prayer (Sing Amen! the Podcast: Episode 17) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Today we have a conversation with Kate Williams, who compiled and edited the beautiful new resource Of Womb and Tomb: Prayer in time of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth (G-9816). The resource is made up of a book, a CD, and a music collection, and I’m pretty sure it’s the first collection of its kind—since it […]
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February is Black History Month, so it seemed appropriate to devote a podcast to some of the wonderful and Spirit-filled offerings from our African-American brothers and sisters in faith, and the amazing heritage of spirituals and Gospel music they continue to keep alive and growing. So here is I hope a pretty diverse lineup of […]
The post Glory, Hallelujah! A Black History Month Choral Sampler (Sing Amen! The Podcast: episode 15) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Welcome back, and happy new year! We took a little break in January to get caught up and moving again, but we are back and have a great lineup of podcasts set for 2019, so if you are not subscribed yet, please do subscribe to us at Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Stitcher, to make […]
The post Muchos Miembros Hay–Ministry in a Multicultural Parish (Sing Amen! The Podcast: Episode 14) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Merry Christmas! If you have found your way here in some part of the calm after the Christmas storm, welcome. I hope your celebrations of the Nativity were full of beauty and prayer and lovely music–and that you got a nice long nap after. 🙂 This playlist is a companion to the first Christmas playlist […]
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So! It’s almost Christmas, the calendar year is drawing to a close, and musicians everywhere are deep into the work of the season! First, as this year ends, a huge thanks to those who have followed this blog and podcast through our first six months. Despite a bit of a lull as the holiday season […]
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I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite things here at GIA is going through the back catalog and wandering the not-right-off-the-presses areas of the warehouse, because there are so many treasures there—sometimes we get caught up in the allure of whatever is shiny and new and forget how much amazing stuff is still out […]
The post God Comes Tomorrow: Music for Advent and Christmas (Sing Amen! the Podcast, episode 11) appeared first on Sing Amen.
(UPDATE This episode was completed and recorded before the tragic events at Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday. Thus what brief narration and commentary I give on the episode does not address the tragedy of eleven people who lost their lives nor the countless numbers who grieve them. And even now, it becomes harder and […]
The post Of Soulful Saints and Saintly Souls: a Choral Sampler (Sing Amen! the Podcast, episode 10) appeared first on Sing Amen.
So out of David’s and my long conversation several months ago we were able to pull not one but two podcast episodes; the first one was two weeks ago (please check it out if you haven’t yet!), and here is part 2. Here we go a little into what seems like one of the elephants in […]
The post Conversation with David Haas, Part II: On Self-care and Avoiding Burnout (Podcast, Episode 9) appeared first on Sing Amen.
This past January, GIA released David Haas’s book I Will Bring You Home: Songs of Prayer, Stories of Faith, an amazing volume telling the stories behind more than 130 of his best-loved songs. But looked at all together, this book is not just about the songs—it tells the story of a life, of a vocation […]
The post Sing Amen! the Podcast, Episode 8: David Haas (Part 1) on How He Got Here appeared first on Sing Amen.
Complaining about weddings is probably the single favorite pastime of church musicians when they get together. (Okay, even as I read what I just typed, I have to acknowledge that many of my friends and colleagues have a much longer list of things and people we all love to complain about, but let’s just accept […]
The post Sing Amen! The Podcast, Episode 7: How to Love Wedding Music Ministry (Interview with Mary Prete) appeared first on Sing Amen.
Greetings all! Here is the contemporary sampler recording I said I would do, since I’ve been leaning more heavily in the choral direction for a while. And it is definitely a sampler; there is no real guiding principle for what is chosen here beyond it being songs I like, in an order that seems to hang […]
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Today's podcast is intended to be sort of a journey in music, hopefully a quiet time to just be still and let ourselves be ministered to a little.
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As promised, this episode of our podcast features a conversation with conductor, teacher, and author Dr. James Jordan–He is basically one of the giants in choral music and education right now, a professor at Westminster Choir College and conductor of the critically acclaimed Westminster Williamson Voices, the editor of GIA’s Evoking Sound choral music series, […]
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Greetings, everyone! With the NPM conference behind us and the various publisher reading sessions still to come, I’m guessing a lot of listeners are in the process right now of choosing new music for their choirs over the coming year. And I’m here today to just compound further the eternal dilemma of “there’s so much […]
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For more than thirty years now, Diana Kodner Gökçe’s Handbook for Cantors has been “the” book on the ministry of the cantor, used for countless workshops and classes around the country, and by many of the ministers who lead the sung prayer of the community every week. Literally as I write this, Handbook for Cantors, […]
The post SingAmen! The Podcast: Episode 2—Diana Kodner Gökçe, on Cantoring, Children’s voices, and the Fourth Wall appeared first on Sing Amen.
For this first full-length SingAmen! podcast episode, we are featuring a recording of a wonderful conversation I had with Fr. Michael Joncas I had last April. When I listen back to it now I think, “Wow, Jenn, you sound like a complete fan-girl,” which isn’t too off-base; this is Michael Joncas, after all...
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Today we are launching the “trailer” for the SingAmen! Podcast, with a few hints of what’s to come! The podcast expects to publish a new episode every couple of weeks or so, more or less alternating between interview/instruction type episodes and ones that are more assortments of musical selections. You can subscribe on iTunes or […]
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