Allen H Simon

Everybody sing along, now…     h/t Podium Speak  

This month’s challenge to composers: make use of this technique in a choral composition:    

In 2007, a group of orchestras hired a professional to analyze their audiences and determine how to convert first-time concertgoers into regular subscribers; churn among first-timers is as high as 91%, so just getting them in the door isn’t enough.    To their surprise, the quality of the performance was a minor factor in determining […]

Even non-musicians who have hearing loss complain about hearing aids. It’s hard to distinguish voices when there’s background noise, sounds are tinny, etc. For musicians, it can be particuarly excruciating. The New York Times writes: After he lost much of his hearing last year at age 57, the composer Richard Einhorn despaired of ever really […]

“Real” instruments are too dangerous: Andrew DiMarzio loves to play his tenor sax at home and at school, but the bus company said the case for his saxophone is a safety hazard aboard a crowded school bus. Hope they never learn that singers carry their instruments with them, or whole choirs might be banned. But […]

Marie Grass Amenta writes: One of my Communities, Friends of Joyful Noise, has some exciting news–at least, we think it’s exciting.  I’d like to get it out to the  ChoralNet mainstream.  My hope would be, not only would the ChoralNet general population know about it–and it’s pretty darn cool, too–but again, those who do not […]