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Everything – EVERYTHING – in our obscenely media-obsessed world is designed to over-stimulate us (and separate us from our hard-earned cash).  You are bombarded continually and from every direction with pernicious messages screaming that you are too fat . . . that your partner is beneath you . . . that your kids aren’t playing […]

You’ve eaten waaay too much food.  The kids are over-tired and over-sugared. The kitchen is a disaster.  Family members are getting cranky. Football is blaring on the TV.  “ChoralBuzz” will get back to content designed to enhance your practice of the choral art in a couple days.  But for the moment, try to relax a […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, Choral-Orchestral Balance: A View from the Trombone Section, by Susan Dill Bruenger)          Trombonists also resent the choir director who, busily conducting the ensemble, asks someone-anyone-to go out into the hall and listen for balance. Often the person will say, “The brass is too loud,” and it […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, Arts Medicine: And Overview for Choir Conductors, by Robert T. Sataloff.)          Singers are exposed to a variety of hazards related not only to singing, but also to numerous other facets of performing or other artistic pursuits. Some singers perform as instrumentalists ordancers, in addition to performing […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, Musical Arthritis and the New Conductor by Charles Facer.)          The young, recently hired director of a 100-voice community choir was working hardto inspire his new singers to sing in tune, with precision, and musicality. He spoke often of “stepping up to the next level.” He would […]