Jeff Tillinghast

(nytimes.com)   Buzz, buzz, buzz… I call them “flies:” those quick to-dos that are constantly floating across my brain, usually at the worst possible time. They’re the ones that pop up in the middle of dinner, a conversation, rehearsal or class. Their buzz often sounds like “I was supposed to…”, “Don’t forget to…” or “I […]

Bear with me while I try to apply military strategy to our choral art. Military strategy has a term called “the Fog of War” which refers to uncertainty, specifically areas of engagement that can’t be known from one’s position. Wikipedia: “The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one’s own capability, adversary capability, and adversary […]

ChoralNet consistently strives to be the online professional network for us as choral conductors, and for ACDA in general. For many of us, myself included, we came to ChoralNet looking to ask questions, disuss new ideas, and learn from the experience of our peers. Beyond ChoralNet, though, there are many other ways to expand and […]

  There’s a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you’ll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of […]

No matter how you record and distribute your audio, there are two basic editing steps that will help you clean up any audio file. Editing audio on your computer can be quick and easy, but it’s also something that can open an endless rabbit-hole of tweaking, pulling and fiddling. We’re going to keep it basic […]

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about getting recordings in, and managing them on, your computer. What do you do with them once they’re there? How do you make them the most useful for your purposes, whether for the audience, your own listening or your musicians’ practice? If you want to get it […]