Pretty funny YouTube video combining singing and Kanye West twitter posts.
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Children’s formant
University researchers, always mindful of the next tenure review, are studying children’s voices: Choir boys, and more recently choir girls, have been enchanting congregations for centuries with their distinctive voices. Professor David Howard, from the University of York, thinks there is more to the choristers’ sound than meets the ear. Working with music trainer Jenevora […]
Important ACDA vote this month
An important vote for ACDA is coming up – keep reading. The American Choral Directors Association is holding a national election through the end of January for the position of National Chair of the Repertoire and Standards Committee (R&S). Members may vote by clicking on this link. The R&S Committee is one of […]
What is your sentence?
We all tend to make resolutions at the beginning of the year; we take stock of our lives and future as we begin a new calendar year. Dan Pink is an author and speaker I've quoted many times in this blog (a few are here, here, and here). He's got two questions that […]
Starting at the very beginning
Let’s start the first Monday of 2011 with a look back – way back – to some finely produced videos of Mozarabic Chant. Here is a bit of the YouTube description of the work: The chant is an heavily-abridged version of Daniel 3:49-52, 57, 88. These verses are not present in 66-book Bibles […]
Selling choral music on ebay
Has anyone done this? I read a “tweet” last night about a guy selling his 400 piece choral collection on ebay – I sent him a message to ask how much he got for it but haven’t heard back yet. I’m curious – because I, like you, have thousands of pieces of choral […]