We're definitely in crazyville now. A Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a Tony Award-winning musical about a Muslim street poet after community members complained about the timing so soon after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Richland School District in Johnstown had planned to stage "Kismet" in February, but […]
On demand or not?
Today's gripe: print-on-demand bureaucracy. I ordered a piece for my Christmas concert for choir, organ, and trumpet. I placed the order with my usual vendor for the p/v scores and a separate trumpet part. Today (six weeks after I placed the order) I get a phone call saying they can't send me just the […]
Copyright forever less one day
I know I'm beating a drum that no one's listening to, but I'm not the only one who thinks copyright protections are way too long. Short version: Remember all the good old Disney movies? Yeah, all of them came from works no longer under copyright protection at the time. The whole of the Disney Empire […]
Featured Community: Joyful Noise
Specialized kinds of choirs have specialized kinds of needs, and Communities are a great way for conductors of those groups to connect with others in the same field. Friends of Joyful Noise is a community dedicated to choirs with therapeutic purposes or whose singers have disabilities. The group Joyful Noise (pictured below) performed at ACDA […]
Featured Community: composers
This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting various ChoralNet Communities. Communities are a tool for subcultures of the choral world to get together and address their own particular areas of interest. The first Community to really take off on ChoralNet was Composers of Choral Music. All the discussions of rehearsal […]
Excellent video
The most boring videos of choral concerts are shots of the whole stage static throughout. This is an amazingly-produced video, mixing rehearsal shots, stills, effects, and concert footage. http://youtu.be/vbSsd-on2UE