Over the course of an education, a choral singer could spend a decade singing daily in a school choir. Then, with the pomp-&-circumstance of a graduation ceremony, that same singer passes from the educational system into the demands of the workaday world. For the vast majority of those singers, that means leaving choral music behind. […]
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Do We Need a “Little Kids Table”?
Yes, we have covered this ground before, but given some of the behaviors I have seen lately, this bears repeating . . . The 2015 ACDA National Conference takes place in Salt Lake City next week. If you have looked at the conference Program Book (It’s also your February Choral Journal), then you can […]
The Performamatics Project: Tinkering, Programming and Understanding Composition
Many of our conversations about the use of technology as composers, musicians and teachers focus on doing things more efficiently. In the realm of educational technology, a separate question is to ask how technology can help people understanding complex or abstract concepts more concretely or intuitively. Influenced by theorists such as Seymour Papert, this […]
GUEST BLOG: “Choral Ethics (Part 8): Don’t Shoot the Piano Player” by Marie Grass Amenta
CHORAL ETHICS (Part 8): DON’T SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER by Marie Grass Amenta "It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." J.S. Bach Lady C* contacted me a few years ago as I began […]
GUEST BLOG: “Choral Ethics (Part 7): Our Choral Culture” by Marie Grass Amenta
CHORAL ETHICS (Part 7): OUR CHORAL CULTURE by Marie Grass Amenta “Habits change into character.” Ovid Many of us, especially in community-based programs, complain we don’t have enough singers to do the repertoire we really want to do. If we are a mixed group, we long for more tenors or baritones or basses […]