“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Percy Bysshe Shelley Happy Ground Hog Day! This morning, I hope your own local rodent has brought good, spring-timey news to you and your community. In case you don’t remember the folklore, here’s how it works; if it’s cloudy when the Ground Hog comes out from its […]
Choral Potpourri
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Not Being Revengeful
“The best revenge is massive success.” Frank Sinatra During the month of January, I’ve blogged about being Ready, being Reliable and being Respectful. Today it’s all about not being Revengeful with follow-ups from two community chorus directors featured in past Choral Ethics blogs. Both Jackie* and Josie* could have been revengeful in the situations they […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Being Respectful
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill When I first conceived this “R” Choral Ethics series for January, I thought I would use various people’s problems and situations to illustrate. For three of my Blogs this month, it has been easy to pick examples. In fact, […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Being Reliable
“A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.” Knute Rockne Holly* is the kind of singer we all wish we had in our choirs. She’s dependable and takes the initiative. She practices the hard bits outside of rehearsal. She helps with non-musical things without being […]
Choral Potpourri: Choral Ethics; Being Ready
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” Henry Ford We begin Choral Ethics 2017 with a January’s worth of letters (emails) concerning Four Rs; Being Ready, Being Reliable, Being Respectful and Not Being Revengeful. Each blog will present several writers problems and a bit of our email conversations concerning them. The New […]
Choral Potpourri: Let There Be Peace on Earth
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein Have you ever noticed the best holiday stories portray some sort of dream? From the ballet, “The Nutcracker” to all of the many incarnations of Dickens, “A Christmas Carol,” someone is always sleeping and […]