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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 […]

International award winning University of Maryland:    

Two American University Choirs did very well in the 2011 Florilege Vocal de Tours Competition last week:  The University of Maryland and the University of Houston.     Maryland was directed by Edward Maclary who also won the prestigious "Prix du Chef de choeur" – an award given to a conductor for his expert direction […]

This is a great idea for taking notes at conferences or for students in your classes:  using one google document with multiple editors.  I just read about this on the Chronicle for Higher Education Website, but I’ve advocated it for a couple of years: Just minutes before my lightning talk, I created a relatively simple […]

I was in New York City over Memorial Day and stumbled upon a terrific concert of Bach cantatas by Julian Wachner and the Trinity Choir from Trinity Wall Street church.   What a concert!  They were superb – excellent singing, crisp diction, outstanding orchestra.   They are putting on a series called Bach @ One […]

Following up on my earlier post about Arabic choral music, ChoralNet user John Neal points me to the Tehran Vocal Ensemble: Of course, they perform primarily in Farsi and English, not Arabic. John points to the mixed genders of the ensemble; maybe Iranian culture isn’t as oppressive as news media makes it seem?   They’ve […]