The Lawrence Children's Choir

The Lawrence Children's Choir was founded in the fall of 1991 by Janeal Crabb Krehbiel and Marilyn Crabb Epp. The first choir consisted of 40 members from the 4th-8th grade and was supported by the Lawrence Arts Council for the first two years. In September of 1993, the choir incorporated as a not-for-profit organization and added the Choristers development choir under the direction of Pam Bushouse.

Janeal Crabb Krehbiel - Choir Artistic Director:

A co-founder and current Artistic Director of the Lawrence Children's Choir, Janeal Krehbiel has been a clinician and festival judge throughout the United States. Her appointments include Featured Clinician at both St. Olaf College, Westminster Choir College, Montreal Music Conference, and at the North Carolina Summer Institute of Choral Arts. She directs children's and junior high choirs at camps and festivals and has held college/university seminars across the country. Having taught K-12 vocal music in Denver public schools and in Hesston, Kansas, Janeal is currently in her tenth yea in Lawrence, Kansas, teaching at Southwest Junior High School. She previously spent eighteen years as the children's choir director at the Bethel College Mennonite Church. Mrs. Krehbiel's publishing credits include numerous articles about children's and youth choirs. She is also a past president of the Kansas Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. In July, 1999, Janeal received the Harry Robert Wilson Award for outstanding contribution to choral art in Kansas.

Discography

This Shall Be For Music

This nationally recognized children's choir has sung for audiences across the country, for international audiences and political dignitaries. This talented group has a wide range of challenging repertoire which shows off their dedication and musicality. This two disc set features music performed at their concerts from the Fall of 2001 through the Spring of 2004. An assortment of pieces from the Baroque through twentieth century, this recording is sure to have something for everyone. A cappella, accompanied, unison or in parts, all of this music is well sung under the direction of Janeal Crabb Krehbiel.

10 Year Anniversary

Sing You Now Badgers & Hedgehogs Butterflies & Moths Smieklis Man Ask the Moon Jerusalem Go Where I Send Thee All is Well National Anthem Velvet Shoes Bouree for Bash The Cuckoo, the Nightengale, and the Donkey Birdsong Angels Ever Bright and Fair Every Night When the Sun Comes In Sourwood Mountian Climb to The Top of the Highest Mountian Springtime Mantleth Every Bough Trumpet Song Where the Music Comes From Land Of the Silver Birch Dove and the Maple Tree Sleep my Baby HMS Pinafore Medley Hallelujah, Amen How Can I Keep From Singing

Janeal Crabbe Krehbiel directs the various incarnations of the Lawrence (Kansas) Children's Choir in 30 live in concert songs, recorded over the last 10 years. All the songs are piano accompanied by Marilyn Crabbe Epp, with occasional trumpet, violin, bass and other instruments throughout. The childrens' spirited, sweet, high voices turn songs like Andrew Carter's "Butterflies and Moths," Brahms' "Die Meere," the spiritual "Go Where I Send Thee," Purcell's "Trumpet Song," Dvorak's "Dove and the Maple Tree" and Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore Medley" into magical, inspirational, soaring anthe

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Here's To Song

Stars Down in the Forest Two German Folk Songs Spinnerliedchen Abscheid Pie Jesu from Requiem Mass Fare Ye Well Kyrie from Missa Brevis in C minor Kalinka Linden Lea Five Little Chickens from Country Scenes She Shall Have Music Hey Nonny No! If Music Be the Food of Love O filii et filiae Poor Lonesome Cowboy Mary Had A Little Blues Spring Morning Bel Tempo che vola When I Am Silent Let the Merry Bells Ring Out My Beloved Holy, Holy, Holy Dance on My Heart Still wie die Nacht Tebe poem Away from the Roll of the Sea On the Sunny Side of the Street The Nightingale Chindia Solstice Here's to Song

"Here's To Song" is The Lawrence Children's Choir's second CD, once again directed by founder Janeal Krehbiel and accompanied by co-founder Marilyn Epp. There are 30 songs here, all but a couple are accompanied by piano or piano and clarinet or oboe. The 70-voice choir takes more chances on their second CD, in the form of more solos and more adventuresome arrangements. The song selection continues to be all over the map, from Gabriel Faure¹s "Pie Jesu from Requiem Mass" to Joan Varner¹s wonderful "When I Am Silent." These kids don't hold anything back, and can hit the high notes with ease and skill. Here's to the children, Ms. Krehbiel , Ms. Epp, and To Song!

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Sing We Now of Christmas

Solstice - Nancy Grundahl Come, Join the Angels' Song - Janeal Krehbiel A Cuckoo Flew Out of the Woods - B. Wayne Bisbee Prayer - Engelblbert Humperdinck Gaudete! Gaudete! - Lana Walter Dashing Through the Snow - John Leavitt In the Bleak Mid-wainter - Gustav Holst l Russian Candle Carol - Nancy Grundahl Gesu Bambino - Pietro A. Yon Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - Hal H. Hopson Patapan - Reginald Unterseher Weinachtsglocken - Marilyn Epp Huron Carol - Paul Halley He Came Down - Nancy Grundahl Three Catalonian Carols - Joan C. Varner Sing We Now Noel! - Robert Pherigo Night of Silence - Daniel Kantor

Considered to be one of the finest children's choirs in the country we expect a high standard and director Janeal Crabb Krehbiel delivers with a fine collection of carols and songs in celebration of the season.

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