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HOW MUCH DOES THIS POSITION PAY? by Thomas Vozzella   You find a great position. It might even be a position you have dreamed of being offered. Because you are overwhelmed with excitement, as soon as you are offered the position, you say yes without regard to the salary and benefit package. How many have […]

As you know if you've read many of my posts, I enjoy reading in other areas, from psychology to sports/coaching, and trying to learn things from them I can apply to music and conducting.   I think that the biggest thing I've taken from Daniel Coyle's two books has been the idea of gradually building […]

 

Last time I wrote about StaffPad, a new Windows 8 notation program that works on pen input to allow users to handwrite a score into the computer. While StaffPad is a very exciting product, it’s not the first viable handwriting notation program, and more people are interested in mobile device solutions than ones which require […]

CHORAL ETHICS (Part 13): SLIPPING THROUGH THE CRACKS by Marie Grass Amenta   “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.” Nadia Boulanger   How detail oriented are you? There are plenty of details, having nothing to do with the actual music which must […]