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 […]