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San Francisco Classical Voice points us to an iPhone app for music theory: The app is aimed at college music majors and budding music majors at the high school level. Still, beginning musicians can use the section on note names to reinforce the lessons they’re learning at their music classes, while advanced musicians can test […]

Jeffrey Tucker reports on remarks made by Pope Benedict after a concert of the Mozart Requiem: Allow me, however, to express once again the particular affection that has united me, I could say, always, to this great musician. Every time I listen to his music I cannot help but return in memory to my parish […]

The Arts Action Fund of Americans for the Arts, the advocacy group for the American Choral Directors Association, graded the members of the U.S. Senate on their support for the arts. The grade was based upon criteria such as voting in support of the arts, joining the Senate Arts Caucus, and more. Senators had three […]

Liz Garnett creates yet another interesting column, this time on the communicative mode of conducting gesture. Quoting a research study by Michelle Sampson of Roehampton University. Referring to a study in which singers and conductors watched videos of conductors in action, I observed that when the singers watched the video clips, they could usually write down immediately […]

We've all seen lots of bad choir logos, and lots of unimaginative ones which put the choir name on a staff, or substitute a treble clef for a G (or worse, S).    But recently I've run across a few good ones, which I thought I'd highlight here. This isn't the result of any systematic […]

A recent article in the UK Daily Telegraph discuss the earlier onset of puberty and how it impacts boychoirs: Growing numbers of boy singers, known as trebles, are having to leave prematurely because they can no longer sing the high notes. Instead of singing until the age of 15 or 16, many now stop at […]