Choral Music

The Choral Information Site offers a lot of useful material for directors and teachers.

The Internet Center for Choral Resources serves all choirs (adult, children, church).

The Choristers Guild serves primarily church choirs. Their catalog offers literacy materials and videos, including some on the master teacher Helen Kemp. Kemp’s video, Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice is sometimes hard to find.

At Musicanet, browse through 143,000 choral works available for download, for free.

Singers.com is a wonderful site primarily for a capella singing, and it offers a ton of print resources in its sections on “Teaching  Kids How to Sing.”

Young People’s Chorus of New York City

Two books:

Teaching Kids to Sing by Ken Phillips (Wadsworth 1996).
Teaching the Elementary School Chorus by Linda Swears (Parker, 1985).

P.S. 22 Chorus performances on YouTube

Take a look and listen at some videos of the elementary school chorus at P.S. 22 in Staten Island, including the very strong solos by their young singers.

This is an example of a chorus that uses very up-to-date repertoire — without resorting to karaoke-style unison performances with a digital track.

They have a lot of performances available online at the P.S. 22 Chorus YouTube Channel, and also a blog. On SchoolTube you can watch their rehearsal of the Suzanne Vega song “Language.”