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 […]
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Singing With Cannibals
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 […]
So many things to think about
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 […]
Eric Whitacre’s latest Virtual Choir video
Sleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng
Announcing the International Conductors Exchange Program
On this ChoralBlog on March 29th, Tim Sharp, Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association wrote: The ongoing internationalization of ACDA’s program offerings has been enhanced by collaboration …. Collaboration is the key to making relationships align toward the accomplishment of a shared vision. As part of that ongoing internationalization, I am pleased […]
Nuclear fission and choral music
So what does nuclear fission have to do with choral music? More than you might think! First, a little lesson about nuclear fission from Wikipedia: Nuclear fission produces energy for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons. Both uses are possible because certain substances called nuclear fuels undergo fission […]