This past holiday season I found myself embroiled in a somewhat heated discussion surrounding seasonal music, parents, and students. The story is familiar to many of us: A Jewish child, in a choir affiliated with the public school system, was performing on my college holiday program. This child expressed discomfort in singing Silent Night. The […]
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Name That Choir Tune (No. 22)
Kendall and Derek (& a bunch of their friends) Invite YOU to Salt Lake City
Earliest Polyphony Manuscript
In a study published last December, the University of Cambridge reported on the discovery of a new manuscript fragment that shows the use of polyphony, written around the year 900. That’s about 100 years earlier than any other manuscript we know of. The piece was discovered by Giovanni Varelli, a PhD student from St John’s […]
Name That Choir Tune (No. 21)
GUEST BLOG: “…the eye of the beholder” by Thomas R. Vozzella
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Thomas R. Vozzella “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, first appeared in Molly Bawn (1878), by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. How often have we resorted to looking straight into the eyes of one we are beholding to, to close a deal? In terms of choral music, deals […]