(one in an occasional series highlighting ridiculous inclusive-language overkill, without regard for the scansion, meaning, or music.) This one doesn’t really involve pronouns, but it’s the same mindset of knee-jerk language correction. We’re doing a sappy turn-of-the-century piece by Charles Wood, a setting of part of Expectans Expectavi by Charles Hamilton Sorley: This sanctuary of my soul Unwitting I keep white and whole, Unlatched and […]
What does a singer look for in a conductor audition?
This is from a singer’s blog, describing her impressions from the audition of a potential Artistic Director (the applicant rehearsed and conducted a concert). Of course, everyone has different criteria. This is just one opinion, but this singer had a very positive impression because: She radiates electric energy … on stage and rehearsal. She […]
That’s What I Am, but only with support
I recently watched the movie That's What I Am, a coming-of-age movie released earlier this year with a message of tolerance for those different from you, especially gays (although it's set in the 1960s). In the climax of the movie, a secondary character shows his courage by singing an original song a cappella for […]
Insert Tortoise joke here
A commenter on Philip's recent post about copyrighting the Dead Sea Scrolls mentioned that although the scrolls themselves might be in public domain, photographs of them might be copyrightable. This might be true technically, but it violates the purpose of copyright, which is to protect creative work. Some photographs are artistic and obviously should […]
Featured Community: South Dakota ACDA
Over the next few months, ACDA will be encouraging local chapters to move their communications operations to ChoralNet. South Dakota's state ACDA chapter has been blazing a trail in this regard, recruiting 72 ChoralNet members to their community and posting information about conferences, honor choirs, leadership positions, and so on. They've made great use of […]
Real boys don’t sing soprano
A ChoralNet user forwarded me this article: 14 year-old Garrett Adam is good at many things. Music is one of them. “I play the flute and piccolo in the band,” Garrett said. “And I've been interested in singing a long time now, really interested in singing.” He's been in junior honor choir, band, marching band […]