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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Blackbird
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 […]
The Choir Flashmob
Well, it’s sort of like a choir:
Making Church Cool Again
The video below reminds me of this post from a year ago – and it caused a bit of a stir here among the ChoralNet faithful. See what you think about this video from our friend Jeffrey Carter, who heard about it from someone else: “Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media […]
The Rest is Noise
I’ve been reading a fascinating book recently which I can recommend: The Rest Is Noise, by New Yorker music reviewer Alex Ross. It’s a history of music in the 20th century. It wouldn’t be suitable as a textbook for a music history class, since there are no musical notation examples (although he doesn’t shy away […]