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i occasionally look over to the book publishing world of Amazon and booksellers and I wonder if their struggle with the new digital economy will have an impact on ours.   With that in mind, I saw this the other day (see below).   Publishers and authors are being warned, beware of Amazon. I’m trying […]

Stephen Downes always points towards great material, this time from Mark Twain:   Mark Twain was someone who saw through the more persistent myths of his time – and ours. “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other […]

Jeffrey Tucker writes about the isolation of musicians, saying that church musicians live in their own little world and it’s hard for pastors or parishioners to communicate with them. He says that parisioners have a sense that they have no more business intervening in the world of music than they have in telling the plumber […]

Saturday morning? CARTOONS! For the next six minutes and sixteen seconds my only concern is do I want a chocolate doughnut or the powdered sugar one?

(From the multi-part Choral Journal article, “In Quest of Answers,” by Carole Glenn.)   In response to the questions, (a) Do you have any preferences in terms of blend? and (b) In terms of blend, how do you handle an outstanding solo singer in a choral situation  Howard Swan (California State University, Fullerton)  replied:   […]