Author Dan Pink pointed his twitter readers out to this great video – created by his daughter and friends!
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The War on Pronouns, cont’d
[one of an occasional series on political correctness in church anthems…] Today’s travesty: the anonymous Renaissance anthem Rejoice in the Lord Alway, which contains the line "let your softness be known unto all men", now corrected to "…be known to all the world". My wife, who directs the children’s choir, last year had […]
Repertoire lists
Richard Sparks is compiling the literature he’s performed over the last ten years and posting it on his blog. I love reading lists like this – they introduce me to names I do not know and sometimes reinforce similar programming thoughts. Check out Richard’s list and see if it means anything to you.
Conductor injures himself during performance, cannot continue
Read all about it! Gustavo Dudamel injured himself in the first half of a performance recently and couldn’t continue the performance: Dudamel lunged energetically early in the last movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and pulled a muscle in his neck.Philharmonic president Deborah Borda said that the 28-year-old Venezuelan music director heard a loud […]
Opportunities and Realities
Here is the third part of my vision for impacting our world for choral music. There are two previous entries: An Opportunity for Every Child Doing it – In Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap, the author outlines seven survival skills for the 21st century. For each of these areas, we must individually, in […]
Doing It –
This is a followup on my previous entry, An Opportunity for Every Child. How We Are Going to Do It Over the last two years I have traveled the country holding round table discussions, children’s leader summits, focus group and industry meetings, attending association and guild events, and engaging in numerous detailed discussions on […]