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This article in the Sioux City Journal finds important distinctions between the TV show “Glee” and show choir.   The whole article is here – but here are the first five points:   1. Show choirs don’t get to learn new songs every week, just to express their feelings. They rehearse and rehearse and rehearse […]

I am fortunate to have Spring Break this week to consolidate my thoughts about Chicago ACDA before plunging into more teaching and performing.   The opportunity to share my thoughts here on the ChoralNet blog helps me find the will to think through what over 5000 experienced together.  Here is a list of the music […]

OK, so he wrote it in 1997.  It takes me more than a decade to find great things but this William Hawley piece is quite beautiful – I need to do more Hawley!   I spotted this on the UND Concert Choir blog – it is a great piece and deserves to be sung:   […]

Passionate Cecilia Bartoli took on a recording project that features some of the famous music of the castrati.  Her beautiful voice and powerful singing is wonderful to behold, especially Handel's Ombra Mai Fu.   The description of her DVD features some well chosen words: The ‘Sacrificium’ project tells the story of the castrati in all […]

This story reminded me of 1994, when an album called "Chant" took over the radio waves. That CD/album featured the monks of the Benedictine abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos; this one features composer Allessandro Striggio and English group I Fagiolini: (Reuters) – A sumptuous first recording of a long-lost 450-year-old Italian Renaissance mass written […]