Thanks, Eric, for representing us so well. From the TEDx blog: All of the speakers in the Monumental session delivered tight, powerful talks, but most poignant for me was the juxtaposition of Eric Whitacre’s virtual choir with Wadah of Al Jazeera’s discussion. Whitacre demonstrated the amazing power of crowdsourcing and how the social media […]
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Is Sheet Music Necessary for a Choir Rehearsal?
Yesterday, we wondered about using YouTube to help rehearse a choir. Chris Rowbury asks a more basic question – do you need sheet music in a rehearsal? Here is his list of advantages/disadvantages. What is he missing? advantages of teaching by ear no looking at pieces of paper – singers can focus […]
ACDA Program Book
As part of the ongoing move towards technology, ACDA is providing the 2011 National Conference Program book in PDF form for participants! Download the book here and use it in Chicago. (Note: all conference participants will get a paper version of the Program book.) It works great on an iPad! LATE BREAKING TRAVEL […]
ACDA’s Virtual Choral Reading Session from Chicago Conference
The American Choral Directors Association is pleased to announce a collaboration with J.W. Pepper that makes the choral literature from all thirteen of the choral reading sessions presented at the 2011 ACDA National Conference in Chicago available to all choral directors. This collaboration has created a resource that allows everyone to see and hear ACDA’s […]
Rehearsing Your Choir with YouTube
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Free voice screenings on World Voice Day
I've never heard of World Voice Day before, an event created by voice doctors (initially in Brazil) to "raise awareness" of voice disorders. But in this morning's email I got a notice about a free voice screening for professional singers offered by a clinic in New York on this year's "World Voice Day". The […]