Not my idea of fun, but the ideas are refreshing: Conspirare is about to begin its new year with some very old music, and with a challenge: to deliver four unique concerts in three days. Its “Renaissance and Response” festival, held Friday through Sunday , will celebrate complex and beautiful music that’s rarely heard or […]
Something Different
Twitter exposes me to a wide variety of choral expressions – this one from a twitter user I do not know that pointed me here. Check out this Haitian choral music – also linked here for my Austrailian friends:
“It’s something that makes you sit up.”
I found this great story about singing and science at the Episcopal Cafe – how “science can now tell what it is about the voices of young choiristers that gives us goosebumps. It can tell us how they produce the sound, and how it could be artificially recreated.”: More from the website: “The hypothesis […]
E. Whitacre makes it to TED
I wanted to publicly congratulate Eric Whitacre for his upcoming engagement with TED2011. Eric will be talking about the "Virtual Choir" that we've heard about and watched evolve over the past several years. Eric is one of the first composers to combine a number of talents and skills to really thrive in […]
Choral Music – right up there with “good food, money and s**”
We have a new recruiting tool! From the article: It may be the chorus of a pop song or the slow movement of a symphony… we all know that our favourite pieces of music make us feel good. But scientists have now unravelled how they do it. They say a best-loved aria or guitar […]
Favorite Christmas Presents
I know what you are thinking – Christmas was weeks ago. And I know that Christmas is all about giving . . . but I got some great presents. My wife and mother (two different people – Alabama isn't that backwards) each gave me a Keurig coffee maker. I just love those quick-clean-heatproducing […]