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       "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." John Donne   I mentioned in my first blog post two weeks ago I have spent most of my summer vacation straightening up. My choir music is now so organized; I can put my hands on anything my […]

Blogging returns this week on ChoralNet.  First up is Timothy Sharp, the Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association.     This week I return to blogging regularly on ChoralNet, and will be working through my thoughts related to innovation, particularly as the topic relates to our choral mission with the American Choral Directors […]

  Announcing the winners of the Showcase Dare August 2015.  I would like to thank all composers who participated and the conductors and composers who helped vote for the pieces started for the dare.  All pieces are available to view here: https://choralnet.org/view/472261   Overall winners received a score of at least 4.0 in Spark and had […]

                                          “Don’t be the dance band on the Titanic.” Harry Chapin   At the beginning of the summer, I attended the national conference of Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy organization based in Washington D.C. I was sent by a new local arts organization I work with, a consortium of arts organizations and businesses […]

   COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig   (Each week we look at one or two of the best choral works posted in the Composition Showcase here on   ChoralNet.  This is where we store a treasure trove of works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences   will love to hear.)     Power of […]

  Beginning As We Mean to Go On “The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Robert Louis Stevenson   I am excited this Fall to be writing regularly for the ChoralBlog. I’ve thought quite a bit about what to call my […]