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An astounding factoid if true: “And while the proportion of tenure-track teaching faculty has dwindled, the number of managers has skyrocketed in both relative and absolute terms. If current trends continue, the Department of Education estimates that by 2014 there will be more administrators than instructors at American four-year nonprofit colleges. A bigger administration also […]

Paul Carey has a great blog post up containing rehearsal insights from Rick Bjella, Randal Swiggum, Nick Page, Larry Doebler, Lucy Thayer, Tim Bruneau, and Patty O’Toole.   Really great stuff: Student investment and ownership: have students develop their own text interpretations use story telling (composers, personal experiences relating to the text, communing with nature, […]

The American Choral Directors Association will sponsor a record twelve conferences in 2012, featuring the Association’s signature Divisonal conferences, along with five additional intensive events for specific repertoire and interest areas including Children’s Directors, Middle School/Junior High Directors, Composers, American Choral Research, and International Choirs. The seven ACDA Division conferences feature the best of choral […]

The situation:   1.  An incoming student, passionate about choral music, wasn't scheduled to attend orientation until the day before school started in August. 2.  Auditions were scheduled to be completed at the end of June.   The solution:  a skype audition   It worked very well!   I had heard about voice teachers using […]

A fascinating video about how musicians communicate expressivity, discussed here on the website “brainpickings.” The interplay between music and emotion, which we explored on Monday with 7 must-read books on the subject, is undeniable. But if most of us ordinary people are so powerfully affected by music, we can only imagine what that experience must […]

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