(An excerpt from a Choral Journal “Letter to the Editor” by Cliff Ganus.) One who listens to recorded examples of liturgical music can often determine the nationality of the choir by noting the hard or fricative consonants or modified vowels which are more related to French or German than to Italian. The absence […]
Flaming Pink Hippos
Anyone who has ever written a lengthy document such as a thesis or dissertation knows that after a certain point the writer becomes so numb that they are almost blind to the words on the page. At the height of writing our own dissertation, one’s advisor found a fairly glaring mistake. Pointing it out, […]