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GUEST BLOG: “From Pop Dominance to Choral Artistry,” by Joseph Brickey-Goldsmith
FROM POP DOMINANCE TO CHORAL ARTISTRY, by Joseph Brickey-Goldsmith Choral music has seen a dramatic surge of interest over the past few years thanks to popular primetime television shows such as Glee, The Sing-Off, etc. While this is wonderful for choral programs, it also calls into question what to do when your students want to sing pop centric choral repertoire. […]
Stick Time: Graduate. Stop Singing. No Way!
Over the course of an education, a choral singer could spend a decade singing daily in a school choir. Then, with the pomp-&-circumstance of a graduation ceremony, that same singer passes from the educational system into the demands of the workaday world. For the vast majority of those singers, that means leaving choral music behind. […]
Do We Need a “Little Kids Table”?
Yes, we have covered this ground before, but given some of the behaviors I have seen lately, this bears repeating . . . The 2015 ACDA National Conference takes place in Salt Lake City next week. If you have looked at the conference Program Book (It’s also your February Choral Journal), then you can […]