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Marie Grass Amenta

Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Perfection is Over-Rated

July 6, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

  This is a Choral Ethics Blog post repeat from several years ago. I need to slow down and plotting out the rest of the summer now seems like a smart idea. I try to be here, one way or another, every week because I know many of you look forward to this blog and […]

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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Talking With Friends

June 29, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I’ve written quite a few times here about my conversations with choral friends, most of whom I’ve known for decades. Some of them have shared conversations with me they’ve had with their choral […]

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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Pretension

June 22, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.” Margot Fonteyn Jamie*’s highly auditioned and highly respected community chorus sing at a (you can guess) high level. Though not a professional chorus, they are often used by a local […]

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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: The Opposite: Part Two

June 15, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

“Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.” Agnes de Mille Today is the second part of Leo’s Choral Ethics story. Leo* contacted me initially to explain he never imagined retiring would cause such an uproar. The plan was Leo […]

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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: The Opposite:Part One

June 8, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.” Niles Bohr Leo*contacted me a while ago wanting to share his story. It isn’t the kind of story you think it will be, he was the one who left. Leo directed a choral program […]

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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Truth to Tell

June 1, 2023 by Marie Grass Amenta Leave a Comment

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”  Lord Byron Since writing about Choral Ethics here on ChoralNet, I have received many emails.  Folks who contact me either want to thank me or to tell me their stories. And their stories are amazing.  Some seem outlandish at the outset, but then I follow up by asking […]

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