A Slovenian television network produces a 40-minute documentary on choral conducting. It’s in English, though, interviewing conductors from many countries. Can’t embed; you’ll have to click on the link to see it. h/t Alan Davis
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I discover Rupert Lang
I’m attending Canada’s Podium 2010 this weekend and I heard the National Youth Choir of Canada last night perform. It was a wonderful and lengthy concert! One of the most memorable was Agneau de Dei by Rupert Lang, performed here by Musica Intima: More to come later.
Peder Karlsson is leaving The Real Group
Peder Karlsson is leaving The Real Group. From The Real Blog: Dear Friends, I write this note to announce that I will soon leave the baritone chair in The Real Group to a new singer – Morten Vinther Sørensen from Denmark. (check video here) I take this new direction in my life […]
My Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
If you “google” the name “Timothy Sharp”, you will find three people with that name emerge. The first is a polished, affable, dapper choral director. The second runs a clinic called the “Happiness Clinic.” And the third person you will find is, well … me. The two Timothy Sharps that are active in the American […]
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Iowa Stubborn, cont’d
I just went to a performance of The Music Man at the local middle school, and apart from the irony of seeing all these parents gush about their children's incompetent performance after seeing a show in which parents are parodied for doing that exact thing, it called to mind that my recent post about this […]