One of the newest features on ChoralNet is the Applaud button, which lets you express agreement with a reply to a forum thread without having to write a separate reply agreeing. Quick and easy. It’s similar to the Like button on Facebook. You can also Applaud replies to Community forums or ChoralBlog. But you […]
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We’ve added a few new features to ChoralNet, including: The Announcements, Forums, and Classifieds menus now include the ten most recent entries The Communities menu not only lists your communities but also the most recent community forum entries The MyChoralNet menu includes the most recent entries in your subscriptions The Resources menu is now hierarchical […]
Can you keep a secret along with 15,999 of your friends?
I’ve always been a little mystified by the “flash mob” concept. They always pretend they were huge surprises in whatever venues they perform in (in fact there’s a pretense of spontaneity), but at least for the best-known ones, there must have been pretty substantial video setups in advance, which you’d think would tip everybody off […]
Warning: barbershop
Everybody needs an a-cappella warning sign, right? Could be a great eye-catcher for drive-by traffic at a concert. Available for $20 here. h/t a cappella news
Kenneth Woods identifies the quote of the week
I presume this was from an email he received in response to an earlier blog post: 8. My disappointment on your opinion on Rutter I have a bone to pick with you. After practicing the glockenspiel part for the Rutter Requiem so much and then committing the part to memory so I could play, phrase and […]
Conductor motion capture
A video interview with Alan Gilbert, music directory of the NY Phil, includes some fascinating motion-capture computer graphics of his hand motions. Would that we could all have this kind of video taken for analyzing our own gesture! Can't embed the video. It's a sidebar to a general article about what a conductor does.