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Composition Spotlight: “There Will Come Soft Rains”
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (Each week we look at one or two of the best choral works posted in the Composition Showcase here on ChoralNet. This is where we store a treasure trove of works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear.) There Will Come Soft […]
Choir Around the Internet
Here are a collection of things from around the internet that are interesting, beautiful, silly, and sometimes barely related to the choral art, but nonetheless worth a look: 1) Living Piano Link, via The Awesomer 2) Live at a Train Station (anyone know thie piece?) Link, via The Awesomer 3) Benedictine Monks […]
Chasing Your Tail
This semester I have spent an inordinate amount of time “chasing my tail,” as a fellow director put it. With my community group, we found out that our venue for our concert next week is having a dance next door to the sanctuary we’d be performing in (it’s a church with a private school attached). We […]
Data and the Practicing Musician
One of the great hallmarks of the mobile computing era is the role of data in everyday lives. The omnipresence of computing devices means that an enormous amount of data is being generated, in real-time, as well as being analyzed. This data doesn't just have to be quantitative (or "number-y")– social media and other communication […]
What we can learn from John Wooden I
First, you need to know that John Wooden was the most successful basketball coach ever . . . but you still might wonder, what does that have to do with me? As head coach at UCLA, he won 10 NCAA championships in a period of 12 years, including a streak of 7 in a row. […]
GUEST BLOG: “8 Points to Fun” by Mike O’Neill
8 POINTS TO FUN by Mike O'Neill In today’s society of so little discretionary time, it is imperative that we are ‘scratching the proverbial itch’ of each individual in our choirs. The challenge, especially when dealing with community or church choirs, is that our choir is a melting pot of so many different personalities, […]
“Five from the Folder: Male Choirs” by Bob Boyd
FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: MALE CHOIRS by Bob Boyd 1. “For the Fallen.” Mike Sammes. TTBB with keyboard. Eboracum/Banks ECS 214 Very accessible setting of the poignant text in remembrance of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. 2. “Hava Nageela.” Maurice Goldman. TTBB with keyboard. Alfred LG 52107 Thrilling arrangement that starts […]
Do Numbers Tell the Whole Story
Awhile back I was having a friendly argument with a colleague about the difference between teaching academic music classes and performing classes to non-music majors. This colleague (and good friend) lamented having to teach a non-performance based music class that was required for non-music majors on campus; essentially an academic music class required for another degree plan at […]