More choir controversy in the news, this time about singing religious songs: A student has left his high-school choir after the group sang an Islamic song which contained lyrics in praise of Allah. James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Colorado, protested when the after-school men's choir chose to sing 'Zikr', by […]
More about IPAnow!
I blogged about IPAnow! a couple of days ago. The program is a wonderful tool that transcribes texts (Latin, Italian, German, French) into International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols by applying rules utilized by scholarly lyric diction textbooks. Since then, I had the opportunity to have an email exchange with Kelly Turner, the creator of […]
It might as well be magic
I first wrote about IPANow! on September 30, 2010. It is a remarkable Windows based program that transforms well known languages (Latin, Italian, German, French) into IPA (International Phonetic Alaphabet) symbols. It works this way – input text from any of those languages (or copy and paste from an internet source – and then hit […]
Whitney joins the heavenly choir
Twitter was buzzing Saturday evening with news of Whitney Houston’s untimely death. Nearly every other person tweeted that heaven had gained another member for the angelic choir. To be sure, the world lost a great talent. ChoralNet has mentioned Whitney a number of time through the years, whether it was: the influence of […]
Sent from where?
Bob Eaton, president of ACDA's Eastern Division, gives us this juxtaposition of choral music and technology: I received an email and in place of the typical "sent from my iPhone, or Android or whatever" statement it said: "Sent from choir rehearsal." A student? A choir member? No… The choir director!
Stuff Choirs Say
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