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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 […]

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)

Barber’s setting of “The Coolin’” is on my mind this morning – it is a text and setting that continues to haunt me:   Come with me, under my coat, and we will drink our fill of the milk of the white goat, or wine if it be thy will. And we will talk, until […]

There is a National Geographic program now airing on television called Eating With Cannibals http://on.natgeo.com/if2F4p  The host of the program is Piers Gibbon, and his journal is available on the program website. In one journal entry, he interviewed a cannibal (apparently, now reformed) in Papua New Guinea, that was from the Biami tribe. Through the […]

Jeff Carter unleashed a great stream of ideas while teaching a voice lesson a few days ago:   As I was waxing dramatic about important words and syllables in singing texts, this one just spewed forth:   Think of objects and subjects , action verbs, and unexpected adverbs and adjectives as having more RPM than […]

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