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I would offer to be a judge, but I'm sure I'd be much too biased against anything not set to text. Kinda like judging a piano composition competition where some entrants submit pieces that only use one finger on each hand - Don't get me wrong, certainly these entries would not be invalid, but I'd have a tendency to dismiss them out of hand because they don't really take advantage of what the instrument is capable of. In the case of choral works, a piece submitted with no text (say other than oos and ahs) gives me no idea of whether or not the composer even understands the subtleties of scoring text.
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Frankly, if one cannot see the value of choral music that doesn't have text, they obviously are not fully qualified to judge. A fair and good judge is one that recognizes all quality, whether or not they appreciate what the composer is doing. If you don't want to participate, then by all means, don't.
Yes Letehn, solo voice whether with keyboard or harp or not is fine. I'll put you up.
