A federal judge has voided an agreement made between Google and a consortium of book publishers regarding the Google Books project. In my opinion, this could spell good news for choral musicians. Let me explain. The Google Books project involves scanning the contents of entire libraries. Just like Google Maps and other large-scale projects, […]
Mozart on helium
La Schola Cantorum S. Maria degli Angeli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpAzTf8m9uI
What do teachers make?
iPod Impatience
Bobby McFerrin is interviewed by Huffington Post's Bianca Bosker: When I was a kid growing up and we bought albums, we treated them with such reverence, we would listen to every single cut, first to last, whether we liked the pieces or not, we were patient enough to at least give the [pieces] a chance. […]
Frame of silence
Guardian columnist Tom Service growls at audience members who break the silence following the final chord in a piece of music: But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure […]
Comedy in the Stabat Mater?
Although some of the movements of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater are more lighthearted than the text would suggest, what I’m really referring to is the comedy of errors in dealing with the orchestra parts. It started a few weeks ago when I was marking up my full score with my preferred articulations, dynamics, bowings, etc., […]