COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (Each week we look at one or two of the best choral works posted in the Composition Showcase here on ChoralNet. This is where we store a treasure trove of works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear.) Evening Star by Michał […]
GUEST BLOG: “Nelson Mandela’s Impact on Choral Music” by Ben Allaway
NELSON MANDELA'S IMPACT ON CHORAL MUSIC, by Ben Allaway Nelson Mandela's passing is very poignant for me because he had a great influence on my early interest in arts activism. I wanted to learn about how choirs could help raise awareness of social issues such as apartheid, and there were terrific things happening […]
Saturday Respite: The Toys Just Get Bigger
Regardless of our age, some of us boys never quite grow up. We LOVE our toys . . . though they do tend to get bigger and more expensive. (But, dude, if you're going to drop the coin for a Mustang, why not get it in red?)
Saturday Respite: Cities Beneath our Feet
Before you step on an ant, consider this . . .
CJ Replay: Best Voice for Mozart
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “The Best Voice for Mozart,” by Robert Russell) If Baroque violinists sought to imitate the voice, then by reversing the analogy we may discover significant information about the nature of the voice. The beauties of violin playing consisted in the swelling and softening created by the […]
CJ Replay: Education in the Fine Arts
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal column, “Da Capo,” by Alfred Mirovitch) Education’s primary aim should be to foster the growth of the whole [person], the complete human being, not the dedication to one specific skill, or technic, or specialty, nor solely the accumulation of knowledge, of cold facts, rules and statistics. Practical […]