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SERVICEABLE FUNERAL ANTHEMS by Thomas Vozzella   What to sing at a funeral when your choir is asked to offer choral music…do your ensembles have anthems at the ready? Many of us do not have selections prepared for funerals, especially early in our careers. The last thing on our minds, as young conductors, is preparing music […]

Let’s play “What If?”   You’re a high school choir director in a small mid-western town, striving daily with limited resources to provide the best possible choral education for your students.  Your school performance space is – to put it mildly – an acoustical disaster.  But wait!  The church just down the block has beautiful […]

Hi all—hope you’ve had a great break and are ready to get back to work! This skills series continues:   More from Daniel Coyle: Tip#14 “Take Off Your Watch”   This has to do with our own preparation and practice.   Coyle says, “Deep practice is not measured in minutes or hours, but in the […]

 (yamaha.com)   When setting up the sound in any hall or room, you eventually come to the complicated dance of on-stage mixing: someone is at the board (usually in the back of the hall) while someone else listens to the sound on stage and telegraphs a series of gestures to try and communicate the necessary […]

Just when one thinks one has seen all the horrors that terrorists have to offer, those who prefer death over discourse find new ways to astonish and appall us.  In the wake of tragedy in France, politicians make bold yet empty pronouncements, believing somehow that another investigation or blue-ribbon commission will salve a blind hatred […]

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