Liz Garnett writes about membership “churn”: You are constantly having to cover the basic ground for new members, which leaves less time for building on them to develop advanced skills. And a piece you worked up to a good performance standard just a few months ago loses its polish much faster if 25% of the […]
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Is singing inherently embarrassing?
So some brain researchers want to find out what part of the brain is involved in the emotion of embarrassment. Fine. They get a bunch of test subjects and put them under a brain scanner. But they had to reliably induce the embarrassment response in order to study it. How to do that? Of course, […]
Richard Nixon Inspires Creativity
Found this late this afternoon on The Fredosphere: Richard Nixon’s life has inspired more operatic creativity that the lives of all other U.S. presidents put together. And the news article from the New York Times that inspired it!
Ken Berg going digital
It is time for another occasional podcast, this time with Ken Berg, composer and conductor from Birmingham, AL. Even though Ken is a very successful and much-published composer, he's recently started a new website for distributing his music. Why would a popular composer do something like that? Listen to Ken's answers – it […]
Composers making major push to publicize their own works
I am in deep admiration of composers who are working hard to publicize their works to the community of conductors. Donald Patriquin started his own website a couple of years ago – I publicized it here. More recently, he’s come out with a major new work timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of […]
Vocal Mistructions
A presentation from the Chicago Conference – Presented by NATS at ACDA: Vocal Mistructions – Presented by NATS at ACDA – PowerPoint PDF View more presentations from National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)