“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.” Honore de Balzac We are almost finished with another Lenten, Holy Week and Easter season. Church musicians are rounding the corner, heading toward the end of the finish line of their busiest six weeks, exhausted and […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Some Advice Bears Repeating, Part Two
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” Plato Last week, I wrote about recently getting emails concerning three problems I know I have addressed before in this Blog. I wrote about one of those re-occurring problems—tardiness. This week, we will tackle the other two. Absences Like the tardiness issues from last week, if […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Some Advice Bears Repeating, Part One
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” Plato I have been regularly writing the Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics ChoralNet Blog since the fall of 2015. During the last two and a half years, I have received one or two emails every week. There are times which are busier than others, but the emails are […]
Choral Potpourri: This Is What A Conductor Looks Like
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Madeleine K. Albright March is Women’s History Month, so forgive me if I rant a bit this week. This is a month when we in the arts feature women composers on concerts, ballet companies feature women choreographers (there is a ballet […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Don’t Waste My Time!
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” Benjamin Franklin I am ticked this week for a number of reasons. My chamber choir is in the midst of their spring audition cycle and I have had two singers who wanted to audition for my choir blow me […]
Choral Potpourri: Be Yourself, No Regrets
“My work today is perceived as being classic, but when I first started out, it was a break from the norm. Since then, I have continued to reinvent myself. I don’t change my style, but I allow it to evolve.” Giorgio Armani The courage to be yourself, looking at things from your own perspective takes […]