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ChoralNet user Tom Lloyd sent me this great news about music returning to earthquake stricken Haiti:   “Amid the desperation and despair in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-prince, musicians from Haiti’s national chorus, jazz band and philharmonic gave their first post-quake concert. The musicians were able to rescue some instruments from the rubble, and they held the concert […]

The Choir Girl is accepted into a graduate program and realizes she won’t be able to make the summer choir tour.  Here is her reaction: I have to admit that when I received my acceptance call from the University, after the initial shock from that message died down, the FIRST thing that popped into my […]

ACDA has a new name for one of the R&S areas and they are talking about it.   Here is Robyn Lana, the National Chair for the newly named “Children’s and Youth Community Choirs” Repertoire and Standards Committee: The committee proposed the title change in an attempt to be inclusive and clearly indicate who is […]

If voice teachers are giving voice lessons via Skype and Eric Whitacre is awarding scholarships from auditions on YouTube, can online choir auditions be very far away?  I can think of “sightreading” as a possible downside, but that’s all.   What do you think?   Skype Voice Lessons:       Eric Whitacre Scholarship Winner: […]

Do you ever have the sense that your choir thinks you are talking about someone else when you make a correction during a rehearsal?  I do, and one of my students helped me come up with this pyramid yesterday.

My colleague told me this story about a recent happening in the “band” world that you may not have heard about:   Here is the outline of the story:   1.  On January 30, 2005, a parent wrote an article in the Washington Post that bemoaned instrumental music education in general and substandard literature in […]