UPDATED: Check out Paul Carey’s blog Three posts so far about Tucson: Day two thoughts, University Choirs, Thursday night choirs and Cincinnati’s ACDA He’s doing a great job of keeping us informed!
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Choir dedicated to new works
Composers often complain that choirs don’t perform enough new works. Here’s a choir dedicated to only doing new works by Connecticut composers. Composers pay a fee for a fixed amount of rehearsal time with paid singers. They make a recording and a public performance. Maybe it’s not the wave of the future, but it’s […]
Whistle register
Not just for special effects.
Exciting things underway for ChoralNet
Some exciting plans are underway for ChoralNet and ACDA. Three of us met in Cincinnati at the Central Division conference this past weekend: Jim Feiszli, the founder of ChoralNet Tim Sharp, ACDA executive director me, the occasional blogger aka user 32 We brainstomed ideas for the future for ChoralNet and ACDA – what […]
Watch what you write on FaceBook, teachers
This was a bit alarming: Gloria Y. Gadsden, an associate professor of sociology at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, was escorted off the campus on Wednesday because of jokes she had made on her Facebook page about wanting to kill students. On Monday the professor posted this update: “Had a good day today, didn’t want […]
Text your choir for free
A story from The Chronicle of Higher Education has me exploring another tool to communicate with my choir quickly and efficiently. Don’t miss this. Here is the article from the Chronicle and here is how I announced it to my choir. If you follow my tech presentations, this looks like the logical solution to […]