“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain Jeremy* wrote to me a few weeks ago with an unusual problem. Or at least, he thinks it’s unusual. I don’t think it is. What’s the problem? He can’t […]
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Choral Singers “In the Zone”: Toward Flow Through Score Study and Analysis
In the December 2016 issue of Choral Journal, author Christopher Walters wrote an article titled “Choral Singers ‘In the Zone’: Toward Flow Through Score Study and Analysis.” Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first coined the term “flow” in 1975, describing a type of “optimal experience” where “a distinct period of ostensibly effortless action seems to stretch or […]