Chris Rowbury comes out against perfection: Which is why I don’t like singers or choirs or music which is just so, so perfect. The blend is perfect, the rendition is perfect, the enunciation is perfect, the costumes are perfect. I may as well stay at home and read the score and imagine the music in […]
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The End of Holy Week
The long week has ended! The victory is celebrated! Take a rest, church musician.
IMSLP under attack AGAIN
IMSLP (aka Petrucci Music Library) is the orchestral equivalent of CPDL, with tens of thousands of public-domain pieces available in freely-downloadable formats, often with instrumental parts. A couple of years ago, Universal Edition managed to get them shut down because some of the pieces hosted there which are in public domain in the USA and […]
Conan features choir on network TV – Bach Motet next?
ChoralNet contributor Michael Parker informed me of this:
A Hymn to God the Father and Cognitive Dissonance
We are ending our choral conducting class with a unit on the expressivity of text. (some of you may have seen my request for help in this forum post) Using John Dickson’s incredible article Musical Pride and Textual Prejudice: The Expressivity of Language in Choral Music from the September 1993 issue of the Choral Journal we are […]
Sing for Japan
If you are like me, when disaster or tragedy strikes the world community, after the shock subsides, there is a helplessness that sets in related to how we can fully empathize, react, and help. We look at what we do for a living and ask the question, “How does what we do make a difference?” […]