A virtual choir festival in Estonia: Thousands of people across Estonia on Friday took part in a landmark virtual choir festival, gathering in front of big screens to sing the small Baltic state’s cherished anthems. Organisers said crowds massed at over a hundred open-air locations in this nation of 1.3 million people to perform eight […]
The Day You Find Out Why
Ah the joys of a new year! We are all in that mode, aren’t we? Read here how Terminal Degree sees the first few days: There’s fear in the eyes of the freshmen and transfers. They’re walking around with crumpled schedules, asking for directions, and wandering into the wrong classrooms. One young man was […]
Get ahead of the game
The September issue of the Choral Journal is out and ready for you to peruse it – online of course. Did you know that all of the back issues of the Choral Journal are available for download? ACDA Membership has value!
Top 5, I mean 7, Greatest Choral Works
David Griggs-Janower lists his selections of the greatest choral works of all time. The first three: Anyway, I think my first three are (drum roll~~~~~~~~): Bach B Minor Mass Bach St. Matthew Passion Brahms Requiem I even think that’s the order. The B Minor is more universal than the Passion, though neither is truly universal, and maybe that’s why it’s […]
Increase your audience
From the Front of the Choir gives us twenty ways to build your audience. The first one is hilarious: use a smaller venue! use a smaller venue – of course you won’t fit a bigger audience in, but the audience you do get will seem bigger and give the choir confidence, you might […]
Stabat Mater in the news
Hymnography Unbound points us to the news that the Dominican nuns sang the Stabat Mater as a Sequence in the late 13th century, which was much earlier than had been thought. This site has more information.