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 […]
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Name That Choir Tune (No. 36)
GUEST BLOG: “How MUCH does this position PAY?” by Thomas Vozzella
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 […]
Building Skills: Ending a series . . . and blogging for ChoralNet
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 […]
Name That Choir Tune (No. 35)
Handwritten Input in iOS/Android Notation: NotateMe
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 […]