“As a child I loved ghost stories.” Rebecca Hall The Choral Ethics Cyber-Mailbag is filled to overflowing. Sit back for Choral Ethics blogs about all sorts of problems. We will deal with some newish Choral Ethics concerns as well as some familiar to everyone. Today’s Choral Ethics dilemma is perfect for a mid-October day. Jacob* […]
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Choral Ethics: Following Through
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” Martin Luther This October, we’re revisiting some of the staple issues of Choral Ethics. I’ve written a BUNCH about each of these subjects during the last few years. Today we speak of Following Through. One of my HUGE […]
Choral Ethics: Don’t Waste My Time!
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” Benjamin Franklin ChoralNetter, Kristie*, wrote to me a few weeks ago about a problem she is seeing—AGAIN–as rehearsals begin this fall; the lack of punctuality of her fellow choral singers. I wrote about something similar a few years ago […]
Choral Ethics: Judging Others
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, and whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”Walt Whitman This will be my last blog on uncomfortable subjects for a while. Over the summer, I had many ChoralNetters contact me about “Choral-Conductors-Behaving-Badly” and thought to address those emails first thing this fall. I had plenty of the […]
Choral Ethics: Doing the Right Things
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain Many of my ChoralNetter correspondents have Choral Ethics queries I know they KNOW the answer to. I wrote a blog a few years ago about knowing what the right thing to do is but being unsure–or uncomfortable–actually doing it. Folks […]
Choral Ethics: Working Together
“Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I have lived in the South Suburbs of Chicago for over thirty years. We are a scrappy bunch and should not be counted out in any circumstance. Recently, our scrappiness and ability to […]