http://youtu.be/9ETrr-XHBjE Combined choirs of Naval Academy, Air Force Academy, West Point, and Coast Guard Academy. What happened to the Marines?
Video: how to Mike a Choir
This is part 2 of a six-part video series about choir miking, created by Audix Microphones. You can see the whole series here. I put in part 2 because part 1 is about "how to choose a microphone" and, coming from a microphone manufacturer, it might not be totally objective; but still might be […]
Iranian choral sighting
Following up on my earlier post about Arabic choral music, ChoralNet user John Neal points me to the Tehran Vocal Ensemble: Of course, they perform primarily in Farsi and English, not Arabic. John points to the mixed genders of the ensemble; maybe Iranian culture isn’t as oppressive as news media makes it seem? They’ve […]
Looking forward to hearing Beethoven’s 10th symphony
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a challenge to the 1994 Mickey Mouse protection act which extended copyright terms and retroactively re-copyrighted some works which had passed into public domain: The dispute that led to Golan v. Holder dates to 1994, when Congress passed a law that moved vast amounts of material from the public domain […]
Memorial Day — Dona nobis pacem
For Memorial Day, an excerpt of Vaughan Williams' setting of Wildred Owen Walt Whitman's poetry, sung by the Atlanta Symphony chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zfHiloldtg
Arabic choral sighting?
Periodically we get requests on ChoralNet’s forums by well-meaning directors who want to be inclusive of a variety of traditions and include some Arabic music in their programs. The usual answer is that there really isn’t any choral music in Arabic. There has never been any significant tradition of choral music in Arabic-speaking countries, and […]