Helping you Harmonise has a great blog post about how charisma can transform into tyranny, especially for choir directors: There’s a scene in the film The Iron Lady in which Margaret Thatcher is chairing a cabinet meeting just ferociously. Hardly anyone dares speak, and when they do she slaps them down. There is an edge […]
Amazon is redefining publishing
i occasionally look over to the book publishing world of Amazon and booksellers and I wonder if their struggle with the new digital economy will have an impact on ours. With that in mind, I saw this the other day (see below). Publishers and authors are being warned, beware of Amazon. I’m trying […]
Mark Twain on Creativity
Stephen Downes always points towards great material, this time from Mark Twain: Mark Twain was someone who saw through the more persistent myths of his time – and ours. “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other […]
There is always one, isn’t there?
The blog “From the Front of the Choir” captures a few reasons we seem to always have “one” singer out of step with the others. Can you think of more? There are many ways in which an individual singer can be out of step with the rest of the group. They can be: an […]
Faire is the Heaven
Seen on Twitter lately
I run a constant search for the word “choral” on twitter. Occasionally, I look to see what it brings up. Here are some of the latest: My choral teacher put my in between the two skinniest girls in school for this concert tonight soo basically I’m gonna look like a whale U of […]