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The ChoralNet community that follows this blog may be interested in this:i_love_blogging-787805.jpg
 
Number of Hits ChoralNet gets per day:  
 
Somewhere between 3000 and 4000.  Monday and Tuesday are the biggest day.  
 
Notes from recent Copeland Technology Session:
 
For any of you that have attended my technology sessions at ACDA conferences, I’ve got a new “notes page” from the presentation that you can access here. 
 
A new choir blog:
 
And, if you are interested, I’ve started a new choir blog as I begin to prepare for my new position at Samford University (read about it here  and if you want to know why I left UAB, read about it here).  The new choir blog is called “Samford Sings” and I’m currently using it to:
  • preview possible literature for the choir
  • provide a calendar for upcoming performances of the 2010 – 2011 school year
  • describe auditions
Other choir blogs you may enjoy:
 
I believe that blogs are the best and easiest way for a choral director to communicate online with his/her choir.  If you use a blog for your choir, put it in the comments!  I would enjoy following you to see how you use yours.
 
I currently follow these choirs:
 

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  1. Hi Philip,
     
    I logged on to ChoralNet tonight to stall–I have to write something in my blog  other than writing about THE hockey game.  (In case you don’t know WHAT hockey game,  I live Chicago and it’s been 49 years since we won the Stanley Cup and tonight could be the night we win it again! Go Hawks!)
     
    We updated and redesigned the Midwest Motet Society website last January.  My son-the-physicist did it for me, making it so simple I can update and blog and not bother him–my phone calls have not always been welcome, if you can believe that!  And my wonderful chocolate chips cookies do not make up for my frantic calls, it appears.
     
    Many of the features you are including, we have included.  My blog has been rather difficult for me to write and I have had to be very diligent about writing it every week–usually only a few paragraphs.  I write it the night after our weekly rehearsal or the day after.  I usually write something about the choir or the music or what I’ve been doing to prepare but I have also written about a friend’s child’s death and getting to rehearsal in a January snow.  I asked for advice on ChoralNet about blogging and that made me a little shyer than I would have been, I think.  I’ve written a book of essays, detailing raising a child with a disabilty and certainly have "let it all hang out" so now, blogging, I am more reserved.  It’s not really my personality!
     
    One of my singers suggested the blog last fall when we were doing a concert of settings of Ave Verums and Tantum Ergos. It was rather startling to me about how I was going about preparing different settings of the same texts. And she thought that would be interesting to share someplace. 
     
    Our spring concert was last Sunday and I have more time. I have resolved to be more interesting than my tentative writings would suggest I am.  I suppose I am funny in "real life" but you wouldn’t know it from my blog!
     
    Blog on, McDuff!  And I’m right behind you, up in Chicago.
     
    Marie Grass Amenta, founder and music director
    the Midwest Motet Society
     

  2. Hi Philip,
     
    I logged on to ChoralNet tonight to stall–I have to write something in my blog  other than writing about THE hockey game.  (In case you don’t know WHAT hockey game,  I live Chicago and it’s been 49 years since we won the Stanley Cup and tonight could be the night we win it again! Go Hawks!)
     
    We updated and redesigned the Midwest Motet Society website last January.  My son-the-physicist did it for me, making it so simple I can update and blog and not bother him–my phone calls have not always been welcome, if you can believe that!  And my wonderful chocolate chips cookies do not make up for my frantic calls, it appears.
     
    Many of the features you are including, we have included.  My blog has been rather difficult for me to write and I have had to be very diligent about writing it every week–usually only a few paragraphs.  I write it the night after our weekly rehearsal or the day after.  I usually write something about the choir or the music or what I’ve been doing to prepare but I have also written about a friend’s child’s death and getting to rehearsal in a January snow.  I asked for advice on ChoralNet about blogging and that made me a little shyer than I would have been, I think.  I’ve written a book of essays, detailing raising a child with a disabilty and certainly have "let it all hang out" so now, blogging, I am more reserved.  It’s not really my personality!
     
    One of my singers suggested the blog last fall when we were doing a concert of settings of Ave Verums and Tantum Ergos. It was rather startling to me about how I was going about preparing different settings of the same texts. And she thought that would be interesting to share someplace. 
     
    Our spring concert was last Sunday. and I have more time. I have resolved to be more interesting than my tentative writings would suggest I am.  I suppose I am funny in "real life" but you wouldn’t know it from my blog!
     
    Blog on, McDuff!  And I’m right behind you, up in Chicago.
     
    Marie Grass Amenta, founder and music director
    the Midwest Motet Society
     

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