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Last time I wrote about StaffPad, a new Windows 8 notation program that works on pen input to allow users to handwrite a score into the computer. While StaffPad is a very exciting product, it’s not the first viable handwriting notation program, and more people are interested in mobile device solutions than ones which require […]

CHORAL ETHICS (Part 13): SLIPPING THROUGH THE CRACKS by Marie Grass Amenta   “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.” Nadia Boulanger   How detail oriented are you? There are plenty of details, having nothing to do with the actual music which must […]

CHORAL ETHICS (Part 12): TRUTH TO TELL by Marie Grass Amenta   “Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.” Lord Byron   Since writing about Choral Ethics here on ChoralNet, I have received a number of emails.  Folks who contact me either want to thank me or to tell me their stories. And their stories […]

CHORAL ETHICS (Part 11): ROCK STAR by Marie Grass Amenta   “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”  Freddie Mercury   My youngest brother is a conservatory trained percussionist…..which means he’s played for a LOT of rock bands.  Classically trained, he likes playing for rock bands more than orchestras. Why?  The […]

CHORAL ETHICS (Part 10): AUDITION TIME IS HERE by Marie Grass Amenta   "We don't want nobody that nobody sent." Timothy O'Sullivan, Chicago Ward Committeeman, 1948   It’s that time of year; we are finishing the academic year or our concert cycles and by rights, we should be able to relax.  You and I know […]