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Dan Krieder is doing a great service for the world of choral music with his thoughtful posts about choral music.   We’ve featured his previous posts when he talked about listening, communication with the audience, and the essence of rhythm.   This new post lists ten marks of a singing culture.  The first mark holds […]

ACDA Executive Director Tim Sharp has been moving and shaking in his role as leader of the American Choral Directors Association.    We’ll begin a new feature on ChoralNet in the near future that gives Tim an opportunity to speak about issues that are on his mind in a space that is a bit more dynamic than his […]

It is always a good time for some King’s Singers:    

Mark Schweizer provides some entertaining diversions provided via St. James Music Press. Definitions: Incomplete Cadence – harmonius interruptus.Metronome – small elves which live in the London subway system.Basso Continuo – When the director can’t get them to stop.Score – Sopranos 3, Tenors 0.Polychoral Motet – Six parrots singing “Cantate Domino.”Aleatoric (Chance) Music – Music performed by the random selection of pitches […]

Amelia Nagoski’s new blog starts off with an entertaining riff on the image of conductors in the media: I’ve never seen a fictitious conductor who was a great conductor.  Instead, I have observed, fictitious conductors tend to be jerks who flail.  A number of excellent videos illustrate her point. 

I know some of you are bored with my paranoia about copyrights, but check this out. The Obama administration’s “Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator” has asked for public input on copyright policy, and the recording and movie industries promptly proposed the most ridiculous, industry-slanted rules George Orwell could possible imagine: The RIAA and MPAA want spyware […]