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This week I return to my college Alma Mater, and a former professorial post, Belmont University, to participate in the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Belmont Chorale. During the weekend events, many of the accomplishments of the Chorale will be appropriately spotlighted, and we will get to hear the exciting work of Chorale conductor and […]

For all three of you who didn’t see this already:  

Yesterday, we learned about music theory from pencil sketches and Mozart.   Today, we learn from Captain Broccoli:    

Well, it has been awhile since we had a pet video:    

Building on this blog post from last week, Sharon Hansen gives us some things to think about:   What might be some of the chilly conditions that female professors of myriad disciplines experience along their tenure journey? Why do these conditions exist? Especially for the young female choral conductor, negotiating the tenure path as a […]

In her Exchange article Early Brain Development Research Review and Update, Pam Schiller notes new thinking on the link between music and language… "Linguists, psychologists, and neuro-scientists have recently changed their long held opinion about the relationship between speaking and singing.  The latest data show that music and language are so intertwined that an awareness […]