We all start life as babies, babbling incomprehensibly. Eventually, we learn to speak. Then we sing. After that, if we’re lucky, we join our voices with others to create textures of astonishing beauty. (The comparison is so striking that we highlighted it in From Babbling to Beauty, a short “commercial” promoting the 2012 ACDA divisional […]
Stick Time: Choral Call for Justice
Listen and recall the vision of a man who dreamed of a day when people “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Composition Spotlight: The Silver Platter Awards
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig The pieces that are discussed in this blog series are given the Silver Platter Award for repertoire. This award began last year before the series started, therefore some of the very best works in the showcase have not been displayed here. I would like to share these gems with you […]
It’s About the Phrase: Asymetrical and Mixed
Scholarly Abstractions: Classroom Management
Simon, Kathryn L. Predictors of Classroom Management Challenges and Practices of Secondary Choral Music Educators. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Miami, 2012. Data were collected from secondary choral music educators (N = 593) from across the United States using the Choral Classroom Management Inventory. The use of classroom management practices and occurrences of classroom management challenges […]
Saturday Respite: Mozart on Rollerblades
Some forms of art simply defy description. At least he chose a Mozart tune.