“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” Thomas Tusser For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances. Happy December! ~MLGA Today is the […]
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Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Let There Be Peace on Earth
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Two of my MOST REQUESTED December Blogs will be making their yearly appearances, including […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Being Grateful
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” Henry David Thoreau I always try to be grateful and during this Transition Thanksgiving, I remain grateful. Our world is still in upheaval, much less than last year but not quite back to normal, but there is one thing I know for […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Choral Ethics for This Time
“My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.” Robert Frost Today’s Choral Ethics blog is a revisited blog from last fall. During the tough times we are going through with […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Do You Really Like IT?
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain A few years ago, ‘way before the Pandemic, I decided to conduct a little experiment. I randomly thanked and complimented family, friends, and strangers during the month of November. Why November? Usually, we are encouraged to be consciously thankful l during the month […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Doing the Work
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain Most of us are doing what we can, with what we can, during this strange transition time. Concerts? Well, I know I’m forgetting something for my own concert in ten days, I just am not sure what it is. […]