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ChoralNet member Steve Szalaj shares this with the choral community:   Recently, the New York Times ran an article about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir being a part of the first live international satellite broadcast called Operation Telstar on July 23, 1962. The article relates personal stories and the significant cultural/political/social importance of this event against […]

Covey tells us we must “seek to understand” before we can be understood as teachers.  With that in mind, I share this list that I found referenced on Jeff Carter’s blog – the mindset for this year’s freshmen student:   1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.   2. Email is […]

Malcolm Gladwell says "Our instinct as humans…is to assume that most things are not interesting." in What the Dog Saw, he challenges that assumption with stories of great interest that come from ordinary individuals. We've seen the redeeming aspect of reality television, in my generous opinion, in the discovery that mundane things ARE interesting. Part […]

My new graduate student Peter Haley keeps pushing new sites my way.  First it was the “Sing and Compose” pen and now it is Forvo.   Forvo describes themselves as the “largest pronunciation guide in the world.”   From their website:   Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, […]

It isn’t the latest story, but it is still great news that Chanticleer will sing in Chicago at the ACDA National Conference.   From December 2008:  

Finally, a vibrato controversy I can sit back and enjoy: Performance practice covers countless topics, most of which have been written about extensively, but there’s one issue which I’d like to raise here: orchestral string vibrato.  It has become commonly accepted in the 21st century that until the post-war period string players did not use […]