Thanks to all of you for reading for the last three years! And thanks to ACDA and Scott Dorsey for sheparding this process, which has been as informative for me (or more) than it has for any of you. And thanks to all those who took the time to comment or write private […]
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Name That Choir Tune (No. 37)
Help ChoralNet this summer (and beyond)
For those of you in school and church choirs, another year is coming to a close. You might well be thinking to yourself "Hey, I'm going to be missing everyone during summer break…maybe I should go find something to do to continue to be part of the choral community!". We have a fine opportunity for you: become a ChoralNet Resources […]
An interesting year
As I mentioned, I’m leaving ChoralNet blog posting in another week. Next year will be interesting, to say the least. l’ll be taking over Jerry McCoy’s Director of Choral Studies duties in an interim year at UNT, so conducting the A Cappella Choir, being the primary teacher of conducting for our graduate choral conducting […]
Pen and Touchscreen Computing and Music in 2015
(Maestoso: Handwriting-based music theory software. Screengrab from “Maestoso Prototype,” Laura Barreto, 1:15) It seems like the last 12 months have seen great growth in the field of pen and touch computing, both for the computing industry in general and music technology in specific. The release of the first iPad in 2010 promised to launch widespread […]
Guest post – remembering Ward Swingle
Ward Swingle died this past January and, after reading his Facebook post about Ward, I asked Bruce Sellers if he was willing to allow me to copy his post about his experiences with him. Here’s a bit about Bruce: Bruce Sellers is an American tenor and conductor with a rather extraordinary background as an ensemble […]