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Truths* about Choral Leadership
Truth #1 As Conductor, You Make the Difference. Before you lead you have to believe you can have a positive impact on others. When you believe you can make a difference, you position yourself to hear the call to lead. Truth #2 Integrity is the Podium on which you Stand. If people don’t believe […]
What is, and what is not Important
As one of my primary life and career mentors retired and moved to a location closer to children and grandchildren, this giant in my career made a point of sending some of the physical reminders of his work and craft to his protégés. It was a personal and extraordinarily meaningful gesture on his part. The […]
Top 5, I mean 7, Greatest Choral Works
David Griggs-Janower lists his selections of the greatest choral works of all time. The first three: Anyway, I think my first three are (drum roll~~~~~~~~): Bach B Minor Mass Bach St. Matthew Passion Brahms Requiem I even think that’s the order. The B Minor is more universal than the Passion, though neither is truly universal, and maybe that’s why it’s […]
Increase your audience
From the Front of the Choir gives us twenty ways to build your audience. The first one is hilarious: use a smaller venue! use a smaller venue – of course you won’t fit a bigger audience in, but the audience you do get will seem bigger and give the choir confidence, you might […]
Stabat Mater in the news
Hymnography Unbound points us to the news that the Dominican nuns sang the Stabat Mater as a Sequence in the late 13th century, which was much earlier than had been thought. This site has more information.