Curtis E. Hansen, the only remaining living ACDA steering committee member, celebrated his 90th birthday on March 18. Hansen, along with steering committee members J. Clark Rhodes, Elwood Keister, Harry Robert Wilson, R. Wayne Hugoboom, Archie Jones, and Warner Imig, were ACDA’s founding members. They held a very important luncheon meeting on February 23, […]
No More Junk Food
Paul Carey, composer-blogger, calls it like he sees it in this rant against music publishing. He speaks against: 1. Formulas They hope we will consistently give them what they want (speaking in the choral publishing world for now, as that is what I do the most): a formulaic 3-4 minute piece, with an […]
Choral Music for a Tax Day
This is the best I could come up with for April 15:
bobby is back
Don’t miss this interview from NPR on Bobby McFerrin and his new album. On any given night, McFerrin can be found delicately walking a tightrope of vocal improvisation, carrying nothing more than his four-octave vocal range and his childlike sense of play. Next month, he’ll sing and conduct an orchestra in Italy. It’s not a […]
Out of work? Join a choir!
Hat tip, A Cappella News: Teichfischer, 31, lost her job in publishing two years ago. “We thought if you bring people together who have the same situation, then things will be much easier to form a social network,” she says. “It’s really worked out.” She and about three dozen others meet two mornings a week […]
Copeland and Kurt Masur discusses Bach’s St. Matthew
I write this on the morning after my Birmingham Concert Chorale completed a successful performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. What a work! It is a pity that I didn’t enjoy the work until the night of the performance. We only had two months to prepare it – and that is quite difficult for a […]