Tim Sharp

Musica: A Great Benefit for ACDA Members   ACDA Executive Director Tim Sharp If you are searching for choral repertoire, and the fact is, we are indeed searching for choral repertoire all the time, your membership in the American Choral Directors Association offers you the entire Musica choral database to track down repertoire throughout the […]

Waking up on the first day of a New Year always presents a great opportunity and challenge. I love the thought on January 1 (or Jan 4) of being able to say, “I have worked out every day this year, “ or, “I have eaten right every day this year”, or, “I have made great […]

When creative projects struggle, a lack of good ideas is rarely the problem. Usually the issue is with incorporating the various ideas into the output. Team members who think of themselves as artists have a greater tendency to reject others’ creative ideas, but even artists need to be open to suggestions from others. Here’s how […]

I like to compose choral music for specific projects, around concepts I am working on, and for challenges that occur to me that I find interesting to explore. In other words, I compose out of interest and curiosity, not because it is in any way my vocation, a compulsion, or any of the other reasons […]

I am really liking a book I am currently reading on the subjects of creativity and innovation. The book by David Burkus is The Myths of Creativity, with a subtitle “The truth about how Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas.”   In this 2014 Jossey-Bass publication, Burkus gets right down to business by framing […]

I will pause from time to time in my blogging on the topic of innovation to offer some "bottom lines" and "take homes" from what I am blogging about. Here is a bit of distillation in the form of a list based upon ideas offered to date on ChoralNet regarding innovation: Observe everything, and take […]