Every Monday from 7pm to 10pm: Fiesta Chorus Rehearsal at Resurrection Catholic Church in Tempe.
Every Wednesday from 5pm to 10pm: Walk-In Wednesdays Open Mic Night with Walt Richardson at Tempe Center for the Arts.
Friday, May 13th at 6pm and Saturday, May 14th at 9am and 10:30am: Phoenix Children's Chorus holds Auditions at Phoenix Center for the Arts.
Monday, May 16th from 4pm to 7pm: MCC's Music Department holds auditions for Magic of Musical Theatre Workshop I.
Thursday, May 19th at 6pm: Phoenix Children's Chorus holds Auditions at Sirrine Elementary School in Chandler.
Sunday, May 22nd from 4pm to 6pm: Phoenix Children's Chorus presents Spring Concert at Ikeda Theater, Mesa Arts Center.
Monday, May 23rd from 4pm to 7pm: MCC's Music Department holds auditions for Magic of Musical Theatre Workshop II.
Sunday, June 5th from 3pm to 5pm: Tempe Community Chorus presents "The Joint is Jumpin" concert at Tempe Center for the Arts.
Monday, June 6th through Saturday June 18th: MCC's Music Department hosts Magic of Musical Theatre Workshop I.
Monday, June 13th through Friday, June 17th: Chandler Children's Choir hosts Born to Perform Musical Summer Camp at Tri-City Baptist Church in Chandler.
Monday, June 20th through Sunday, July 2nd: MCC's Music Department hosts Magic of Musical Theatre Workshop II.
Monday, June 20th through Thursday, June 30th: MCC's Music Department hosts Magic of Musical Theatre Workshop III.
Saturday, June 25th: Master Class Workshops with Tim Stafford and Rob Ickes at the 30th Annual Prescott Free Bluegrass Festival in Prescott.
We are now accepting registrations for our upcoming Choral Reading Session to be held Saturday, June 11th, 2011, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Phoenix with Clinician Dr. Gregory Gentry, Director of Choral Arts at ASU and Choirmaster for The Phoenix Symphony Chorus. Attendents will preview new choral pieces and take home a packet of new choral music, receive a "letter of attendance" for continuing education/career advancement credit, and be entered to win one of two $50 choral music gift certificates. Best of all, it's free! To ensure we have sufficient materials, please RSVP by visiting
Directors' Resources page.
Session Schedule:
10am-12pm:
Sacred Session
1pm-2pm:
School Unison & 2-Part Session
2pm-3pm:
School 3-Part, SSA, TTB, & SAB Session
3pm-4pm:
School SATB Session
With the arrival of our stock order music, we need to clear out the old (but still good) to make room for the new. So, this month, you can get one sale book when you buy one at the sale price (usually 50% off) when you bring in the coupon.
Teacher Preferred Sheet Music & Accessory Lists for Private and Public School Teachers
We are now able to post preferred books and single sheets by teacher to help your students find the right items online or in-store. To submit your list(s) for posting, complete the Teacher Music List and/or the Teacher Accessory List interactive forms. Students can now browse the music and accessory lists by teacher's last name, and either purchase the books online or call and have them held for pickup. Your students can also find your list by searching for the school and then clicking on your name.
"The Amazing Slow Downer is a great app for all musicians, from instrumentalists to vocalists to composers and arrangers! It allows you to slow down a song without altering the pitch. This feature is great when learning new songs with accompaniment. The program also allows you to also change keys in case you need the accompaniment a few steps higher or lower. The ability to loop small segments of a song makes the Amazing Slow Downer a great tool for transcribing any solo or arrangement." - review by Amy, a member of our staff who uses the full version of this app.
The Lite version of the Amazing Slow Downer is available free from the iTunes Store, but has some restrictions, such as only playing the first quarter of the audio file. However, if you like it, you can purchase the full version for $14.99.
For beginning orchestral string players, it can be difficult to know exactly where to place fingers on the fingerboard due to the absence of frets, keys, or buttons. It can also be confusing to understand why some fingers are placed close together (for a half step) or with a space between them (for a whole step). However, we were unable to find a product that shows the placement of each note on the fingerboard in an easy to understand chart, so we've created our own. In February, we introduced our complimentary Violin Fingerboard Charts and we've had so much interest that we decided to continue. This month features two new charts for viola players - one for the beginner player that displays only natural and sharp notes, and one for the advancing player that shows natural, sharp, and flat notes. The files we have created are non-copyrighted, so you are free to make copies as needed. You can pick them up on cardstock the next time you visit us, or print the beginning chart or advanced chart from home. Cello and Bass fingerboard charts will be following in future newsletters.
Featuring 2052 performances from singers in 58 countries, the Virtual Choir 2.0 - singing Whitacre's "Sleep" - is the largest assembled online in history, and far surpasses Whitacre's original goal of 900 voices. We hope you like it as much as we did. (Can't see the video? View it in a browser.)
Do you have a favorite music-related YouTube Video that you would like to share? E-mail your submissions to web@the-music-store.com
Our latest addition to the sheet music department is Joseph Cruz. A Michigan native, Joseph is a classical pianist who attended Eastern Michigan University and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has performed at music festivals in Italy, London, Amsterdam and New York.
Joseph relocated to Phoenix just this year. He is an avid cyclist, likes to compose and accompany, and has just begun to play accordion. While Joseph makes decisions about graduate school, we are happy to have him at The Music Store. Drop by the sheet music department and Joseph will be glad to assist you.
Featuring 2052 performances from singers in 58 countries, the Virtual Choir 2.0 - singing Whitacre's "Sleep" - is the largest assembled online in history, and far surpasses Whitacre's original goal of 900 voices. We hope you like it as much as we did. (Can't see the video? View it in a browser.)
We are now able to post preferred books and single sheets by teacher to help your students find the right items online or in-store. To submit your list(s) for posting, complete the 
