Joshua Bronfman

I wrote this sitting in the airport in Charleston, SC, waiting for the first flight on my longish trip home. I was coming home from the National Collegiate Chorus Organization's biennial conference (NCCO, not to be confused with the NCCCO – National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators). I love this conference. It's only […]

I've been doing Honor Choir auditions for the past week. I've seen over 400 kids from around the state. 2.5 minutes of solo, 2.5 minutes of sight reading. I've heard Sento nel Core more times than I care to remember. On Thursday alone, I sat through 10 hours of auditions, 120 kids, with one hour […]

I've been thinking a lot about the unwritten rules of leaving a job (not because I am leaving, but because I know a number of colleagues and former students who are leaving or have left good programs in the last couple of years). I think a lot of us aren't really great at leaving, especially […]

Here are a collection of things from around the internet that are interesting, beautiful, silly, and sometimes barely related to the choral art, but nonetheless worth a look:   1) Living Piano Link, via The Awesomer   2) Live at a Train Station (anyone know thie piece?) Link, via The Awesomer   3) Benedictine Monks […]

This semester I have spent an inordinate amount of time “chasing my tail,” as a fellow director put it. With my community group, we found out that our venue for our concert next week is having a dance next door to the sanctuary we’d be performing in (it’s a church with a private school attached). We […]

Awhile back I was having a friendly argument with a colleague about the difference between teaching academic music classes and performing classes to non-music majors. This colleague (and good friend) lamented having to teach a non-performance based music class that was required for non-music majors on campus; essentially an academic music class required for another degree plan at […]