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This blog really nails it.   I really like the part about the gold filter.  Here is #6 on how to make it really big in the music world:   6. Taste: Taste is all-important. Three tenors are better than one. Ten tenors are better than three. And if you’re Irish, better yet – you’ll […]

The Recovering Choir Director brings us this distinction between sacred and secular:     Can you tell the difference?? from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.

I missed Rachmaninoff’s birthday earlier this month.  Here’s a video/audio tribute to Rachmaninoff from the recording that introduced me to the haunting brilliance of the composer.  

This caught my attention – famed conductor Leonard Slatkin publicly criticized for a recent performance.  Tim Smith, music critic from Baltimore, tells us this:   word came that conductor Leonard Slatkin had withdrawn from his remaining scheduled performances of “La Traviata” at the Metropolitan Opera. The rocky opening night had been on Monday.   Slatkin […]

Chris Rowbury deals with the positives and negatives of both approaches, under-rehearsed and over-prepared.   Here’s a bit:   if you worry away at something too much, your intellect gets in the way and stops you from doing it well. Rather like the amateur golfer who is asked to analyse their swing. As soon as […]

Richard Sparks finally returns to the blogosphere with this post on mindsets in learning: The basic premise is that there are two basic “mindsets” about learning (this came out of her research on how people cope with failure) and these affect profoundly how you lead your life: the fixed mindset sees tests and challenges as […]