ChoralNet member Dan Kreider talks here about “listening.” What’s the most powerful piece of music you’ve heard only once? I’ve begun devoting a significant portion of class time to listening. By now my students know the drill: no talking, no noise, focus on evaluating what you hear… and (often) close your eyes. Then I tell […]
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What is common sense anyway?
To follow up on Philip’s post yesterday about common sense, I found myself kind of disappointed with the use of the term "common sense" in Liz’s post. She’s postulating a kind of left-brain/right-brain dichotomy and discussing how important left-brain considerations like rehearsal planning and musical analysis are, but that’s not quite the same thing as "common […]
Alamire Magic
From the 2009 ACDA National Conference:
Conducting and Common Sense
A great post from Liz at Helping you Harmonise: And common sense is what stops conductors getting too self-obsessed. Yes, conducting requires depth of knowledge, and insight, and interpersonal magic and a well-honed technique, yada yada yada. But none of that has any point unless the music sounds good. It doesn’t matter who you studied […]
Build A Blog
ACDA Tech Committee Member Julie Parsons recently delivered a technology presentation at the NW ACDA Conference. Great ideas, Julie! Here is a bit of it, uploaded for everyone on SlideShare: Build A Blog Online View more presentations from conductress.
Carey’s ACDA Review Continues
A guest blogger continues the ACDA Conference Review: In a nutshell, the performance content of ACDA’s North Central Division Convention in Minneapolis rivaled the programs of every National Convention I have attended in the last ten years. For this blogger, concerts had the strongest impact during the four-day celebration of the choral arts. There were simply […]