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  Using mobile devices to record audio and video offers some great advantages over using a camera alone: editing can be done on device, the built-in networking makes it easy to move or publish the files, and having a large screen makes it easy to review footage on the scene. The built-in camera and microphone […]

We have been watching with great interest the development of the film, Big Voice.  The project is nearing completion, and we are certain it will strike a familiar, welcome tone with all of us in choral music education.  Enjoy this trailer.    

More from Daniel Coyle:  Tip #31 To learn a new move, exaggerate it.   "Going too far helps us understand where the boundaries are. . . . Don't be halfhearted. You can always dial back later. Go too far so you can feel the outer edges of the move, and then work on building the […]

Without question, sacred texts comprise the vast majority of poetry set to choral music.  We don’t know what sort of words are most frequently scored from the body of secular works, but certainly the topic of romantic love has to be near the top of the list.   Bach composed a work about coffee, for […]

(An excerpt from the interest session “The Evolving Voice: The Senior Years,” presented by Karen Brunssen during the 2015 ACDA National Conference.)   Vocal training and conditioning should always be age-appropriate, dependent on where the body is within progressive and constant changes. Singers in their “Senior Years” benefit from “mindful” concepts and strategies that efficiently […]

FIRST THINGS FIRST, by William McConnell               Every high school journalism student learns a simple formula for the lead paragraph of a news story: Who – What – Where – When – Why – How. Those are the basics. If a reader goes no farther than that first paragraph, he or she has all […]