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Composition Spotlight: Soon One Day
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (Each week we look at a piece of useful repertoire from the ChoralNet Community Composition Showcase. A variety of voicings and levels of difficulty will be presented. Enjoy!) Soon One Day by Michael Sandvik SATB a cappella (click for PDF and AUDIO) Level: High School or higher Uses: Sacred, General […]
Guest ChoralTech: I Have a Website, Now What?
Guest ChoralTech Blogger Seth Garrepy has taken us through why we need a website, and how to purchase one– in the third and final part of this DIY Website Crash Course, Seth tells us what to do with it once we have one! “I Have a Website, Now What?” In the past two […]
Have a Little Taste of Dallas: Dr. Phillips High School Coro Bella
Here’s a little taste of one of the choirs performing TODAY at the 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas: Dr. Phillips High School Coro Bella (Andrew Minear and Sandy Hinkley, conductors). You can read more about this choir and the program they will perform on page 81 of the Conference Program Book.
Have a Little Taste of Dallas: Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West
Here’s a little taste of one of the choirs performing TODAY at the 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas: Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West (Richard Nance, conductor). You can read more about this choir and the program they will perform on page 90 of the Conference Program Book.
Have a Little Taste of Dallas: Union High School Chamber Choir
Here’s a little taste of one of the choirs performing at the 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas: the Union High School Chamber Choir (Mikkel Iverson, conductor). You can read more about this choir and the program they will perform on page 96 of the Conference Program Book.
Have a Little Taste of Dallas: University of Louisville
Here’s a little taste of one of the choirs performing TODAY at the 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas: The University of Louisville Cardinal Singers (Kent Hatteberg, conductor). You can read more about this choir and the program they will perform on page 98 of the Conference Program Book.
More about Eric Ericson
This is a great interview with Eric from 1997 about the beginnings of the Chamber Choir. Look inside this post for the link–well worth it! http://slowfox.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/eric-ericson-talks-about-choirs-and-choral-works/
Start with Musicality–Redux!
In my last post about rehearsing, I made the point to bring musicality, especially phrase shape, into the rehearsal process early. One reader responded (and thank you for responding–I enjoy feedback or additional comments, whether you agree or disagree!) that one has to be careful to balance the various elements of teaching–and that he’d seen […]
Eric Ericson
This is outside of the run of my usual posts on ChoralBlog, but with Eric Ericson’s passing at age 94, I thought this might be appropriate. Below is an article I was commissioned to write for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet on the occasion of Eric’s 90th birthday–it will give you a sense of his marvelous […]