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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 […]

Gotta love creative thinking, even if it comes in the form of a criticism.  This from The Atlantic Wire about tonight's Simpson's episode: This Sunday, an episode of The Simpsons featured a title sequence storyboarded by Banksy, the graffiti artist and provocateur. Banksy's opening included a minute-long interlude apparently set in a Korean animation sweatshop, […]

A compelling new website I just found, Killing Classical Music, a site “dedicated to rescuing the world’s best music from a slow, certain death at the hands of tired traditions and oppressively ordinary thought.”   On it, I read this great post about “spaces.”   At some point, any discussion about re-imagining the possibilities and […]