Quote of the day: You’re singing like I feel. And I’m on codeine. —my church choir director on Thursday
Use ChoralNet wrong, go to jail
Boy, we’d better review ChoralNet’s terms of use page. The Justice Department wants to make violating a site’s Terms of Use a criminal offense. I bet most of you haven’t read them in a long time, if at all.
President visits choir festival
…in Ireland: PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins on the second full day of his term in office made his first official visit to Northern Ireland last night, attending the Co-operation Ireland all-Island School Choir Competition in Derry City. Mr Higgins was special guest at the final of the competition in the Millennium Forum in Derry, which […]
Let me see your musician’s license
Lots of musicians don’t have 9-to-5 jobs; they’re independent contractors. Even full-time teachers sometimes get extra income teaching private lessons, playing gigs, judging contests, or as guest clinicians. In Concord, CA, the city has decided that means they have to have business licenses: I live in the City of Concord, and am employed full […]
Conductor as dictator
A podcast on station WQXR talks about changing role of the orchestra conductor. It was Arturo Toscanini whose famously broke batons, berated musicians and even threw a score at his orchestra during rehearsals, all we were told, in the service of the music. By the 1960s, collective bargaining agreements and workplace rules helped to do […]
Yale Whiffenpoofs on The Daily Show
Jon Stewart: So you consider the wealthy a persecuted minority? John Hodgman: Of course, we're only 1 percent. … John Hodgman: There you go again, demonizing the rich. You've forced my hand, Jon. Whiffenpoofs, your jobs are uncreated. You're fired. Whiffenfpoofs (sung): We have student loans. John Hodgman: Well, you should have though of that […]