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Stick Time: Special Brand of Commitment
With the season of Lent beginning tomorrow, church choirs will become increasing busy. As a result of the plethora of services and observances involved, some singers could spend 20 hours in the choir loft during Holy Week alone (this on top of their normal 40-hour day job and family obligations). Those who regularly sing […]
Verify Your ChoralNet E-Mail
Over the next two days, you’ll be receiving an email asking you to re-verify your ChoralNet account. When you receive this email, please click on the link, and your ChoralNet subscriptions will continue as usual. If you don’t click the link, your ChoralNet e-mail subscriptions will stop until you verify your account. Why are […]
Saturday Respite: Choral Class Cancellation
Wherever two or more are singing, there shall be choral music. Yes, it’s a tune by a rock band (Queen), but if this school closing message duet doesn’t elicit at least a smirk, then YOU need to get on a plane tonight for the beach. (Note to Self: I wanna work for THAT principal!)
The Young Conductor IV – becoming a better musician
If you remember my 2nd post in this series, I listed all sorts of things that a conductor must gain in terms of skills and knowledge. For the young conductor (or the experienced one, for that matter), many of the limits to your achievements as a conductor will be your own personal limitations as a […]
CJ Replay: Throat Vibrations
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “The Relationship of Phonation and Resonation,” by Berton Coffin) The advantages of using the Radioear Bone Vibrator as an artificial larynx is that all kinds of vibration can be played into the throat and the treatment of all types of vibration by the throat can be […]
CJ Replay: Yes, Choral Music Can
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “A Selected Choir in a Liberal Arts College”, by Carl A. Fehr) It may be assumed that educators in general agree that music, and in this case choral music, is an important aspect of the well-rounded individual. The liberal arts program strives to provide a good, […]
CJ Replay: Maurice Green
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article “Maurice Green: Three Centuries of Neglect,” by Ouida Shotts [31]) Last year marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Maurice Greene (1696-1755), the composer who dominated English cathedral music during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was director of music at St. Paul’s […]