My good friend Don Oglesby visited Birmingham over the Christmas break and told me about this new site on the Masses of Joseph Haydn. It is a promotional website about a new book described this way by the authors:: In the first comprehensive study in almost three-quarters of a century of all Joseph Haydn’s […]
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Killing Obsolete Technology
Technology for the choral conductor . . . a great post here about obsolete technologies we should kill in 2010.
The Publishers vs. The Creators – lessons from the book industry
My wife got me a Kindle for Christmas. I love it. I can’t tell if it is because I love the technology or because I love reading – I think it is because this particular type of technology is invisible most of the time – I am just reconnecting with my love of reading. […]
ACDA & ChoralNet – The Future of Online Networking
The future of choral networking. On Monday December 28 the ChoralNet Board of Directors unanimously approved a motion to dissolve the non-profit corporation ChoralNet, Inc. and merge ChoralNet operations with the American Choral Directors Association effective January 1, 2010. What does this mean for you? It means that the 20,000 or so ACDA members […]
The Sound of Music Transforms the Train Station
I love this scene – thanks to Martin Banner for reminding me of it and apologies if I’ve already put it up here before!
old choruses closing, new ones springing up
This news from Washington DC: Washington, widely regarded as the choral capital of the nation, lost two of its large choruses in May. Both the Maryland Chorus, a largely non-student organization of the University of Maryland School of Music, and the Master Chorale, one of the city’s four large symphonic choruses, were compelled to shut […]