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GUEST BLOG: “Conference Reflections: Chicago” by Paul Carey
CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS: CHICAGO by Paul Carey Today I am concluding my four weeks of Saturday blogposts on ChoralNet- thanks to Scott Dorsey and Tim Sharp for this opportunity. I've been recapping my personal memories of recent ACDA national conferences in hopes that my stories will help you decide to get in on the national […]
Composition Spotlight: Harmony in Gold
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!) Harmony In Gold by Dale Trumbore SATB and orchestra (click for PDF and AUDIO) Level: High School or higher Uses: General Concert […]
Composition Spotlight: Music for ACDA National Conference
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig The Composition Spotlight this week is on all of the composers from the ChoralNet Composers of Choral Music Community that will have pieces performed at the ACDA convention in Dallas this week. The works are in alphabetical order by composer. You can click on the composers’ names to access their […]
Choral Tech: Surviving (and Thriving!) at Conference
National Conference time is upon us! For those of us who love conference time as an opportunity to recharge our inspiration, add new tools and literature to our toolboxes, and meet or reconnect with our peers, it's an exciting week ahead. It's also an exhausting one– It often seems like everything in conferences boils down […]
Rehearsal Techniques I
General thoughts and principles (adapted from what I give my section leaders) about running good rehearsals: Put your music stand low enough and flat enough that it doesn’t interfere with your conducting pattern (and people can see it!) If you work from the piano, put the music desk down flat (for the same reason) Make sure […]
Scholarly Abstractions: Misa Criolla
Mitchell, Aaron. A Conductor’s Guide to Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla.. Doctor of Musical Arts dissertation. University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2009. Although Misa Criolla has been a popular work since the first recording was issued in 1964, until recently there has been little written about the work itself, or its composer, in […]
Stick Time: Life-Long Singing
It probably wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that most of a singer’s choral experience takes place in an educational institution. Certainly, a significant percentage of those of us in the choral profession are conducting ensembles connected in one form or another with an educational institution. The problem, of course, is that eventually we […]