Do you know about Vern Sanders’ DotDotDot blog? It is a website you must know if you are a church musician these days and all choral musicians can benefit from following Vern’s blog, twitter, or anything else he may put out there! Look over his website and let me know what you think. […]
The Monteverdi YouTube Quest Continues
It’s summertime, so that means literature hunting, right? I’m taking a YouTube journey through the Monteverdi madrigals and posting whatever looks interesting. At present, I’m exploring Monteverdi’s Book IV madrigals and here are the results so far: 1. Ah, dolente partita! An incredible video, featured here in Monday’s blog posting. 2. Cor […]
Ah, dolente partita!
I decided I needed to learn more about Monteverdi’s madrigals, so I got a cheap Dover score (Books IV and V) and headed to YouTube. I think YouTube is the future Choral Literature class (and I’m sure other’s have beat me to that realization). A very creative rendering of Monteverdi’s “Ah dolente partita!” […]
What we cannot control
Chris Rowbury has been reading Ben Zander’s book (one that I also heartily recommend!). Chris was inspired to blog about one of the lessons from the book – not worrying about what you cannot control. From Chris: This incident reminded me of the many times in rehearsal when people are late or don’t […]
Slatkin Responds
If you follow this blog or pay attention to any of the other classical blogs, then you may remember the controversy surrounding Leonard Slatkin a couple of months ago. I pointed to the controversy in this blog post from April 21. Slatkin has responded to the controversy and points to one of the […]
What so proudly we raised . . .
Happy Independence Day!