“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” Benjamin Franklin I hated 2021. It wasn’t good for our country, no matter which side of the aisle you are on. It wasn’t good for my family. Or for our profession, for that matter, […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred Lord Tennyson For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances. Happy December! ~MLGA Happy New Year, ChoralNetters! In two days, it […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: This Is Christmas
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” Thomas Tusser For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances. Happy December! ~MLGA Today is the […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Let There Be Peace on Earth
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances, including […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Last Man Standing
“If you think you can do better, then do better. Don’t compete with anyone; just yourself.” Bob Fosse For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances. Happy December! ~MLGA Tuesday was my father’s […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: “…and the tongue of the dumb shall sing”
For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances, including today’s. Happy December! ~MLGA I love “Messiah”. Truth be told, it is probably one of my favorite large choral works. There’s […]