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Just finished dress rehearsal with the orchestra last night for Haydn's Mass in Time of War (aside: first time I've ever had to tell a tympanist to play louder, but it is a prominent part).    I always find dress rehearsal to be much more stressful than performances. That's the real deadline for knowing your […]

I'm thrilled to see all of these new ventures into music publishing.  Today I am featuring Kansas City Music Publishing.   In case you are new to ChoralNet, we talk about music publishing often on this blog.  Here are some of the articles from the past: Transforming Gutenberg Grounded Economics Publishers vs. Creators Future Models […]

I’ve noted with respect the way LSU has said goodbye to longtime professor Ken Fulton as he retires this year.  They’ve celebrated his tenure with ceremony and class.  LSU also included him on the search committee to choose a new conductor.   It doesn’t always go that way, does it?   Sometimes there is no […]

In the musical Rent, Seasons of Love asks “how do you measure a year in the life?” The clinical way of doing so sounds something like “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes”, but the song rhetorically asks, how do you really measure a year in the life?   Most of us are completing a […]

I got this email about a new service:   I developed an online based software solution for choirs to improve the rate at which they can learn repertoire. The software provides an online multitrack mixer/player and media hosting hub so a teacher/director can prepare recordings of individual voice and instrumental parts and post them for […]

I have long admired how Eric Whitacre uses technology.  He recently shared the germ of an idea on his blog – a little motive that may find a way into his next masterpiece:     Read what he said about it here. Keep it up, Eric. Fascinating stuff.