NEWS FLASH: It's August 1st! As the summer weeks tick away, we start to focus increasing amounts of brain wattage toward the looming school year (and for a large number of colleagues classes begin teaching TODAY!). Among the countless details we face in preparation for the new season is the age-old question of classroom […]
Focus Those Young Minds!
(Here is a little something from Glenn Obergefell to help you get those young minds in your care focused at the beginning of the week.) This is a chant I lead my students in. We do this on Mondays when I am having trouble motivating them. I start with “Repeat after ME” […]
Great Opportunity at ACDA
Are you interested in helping ACDA as it grows and strengthens in its ability to serve the choral arts? Then an amazing career opportunity awaits you in the recently announced position of Director of Membership Development at the American Choral Directors Association. The Director of Membership Development will have the opportunity work with ACDA’s […]
You Are MISSING It!
I’m going to opine briefly and directly for just a moment. The World Choir Games is a REMARKABLE experience. Pack a bag – TODAY. Head to Cincinnati. Make your way to the Duke Energy Convention Center on 5th Street. Register. Then attend concerts that will rival anything you have ever heard. The event runs […]
A Taste of the World Choir Games
The heat has been brutal here at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, but the singing has been divine. This is one of those experiences that is difficult – if not truly impossible – to adequately describe in words. To try to report on any single facet of thie remarkable happening would be to do […]