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Saturday Respite: Lactose Intolerant Cow
I can’t think of very many places – especially not in the choral world – where you are going to hear the term “lactose intolerant cow.” Good luck listening without laughing.
Composition Spotlight: Full Fathom Five
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!) Full Fathom Five by Brad Burrill for SSATBB a cappella (click for PDF and audio) Level: High School or higher Uses: General Concert Use Programing themes: […]
Saturday Respite: Working Miracles
You. Yes, YOU, are a miracle worker. Pleasant Saturday.
More ideas for singer independance
Thanks to several ChoralNet people for their responses to my last blog post! This post is mostly copied from an earlier post on my own blog–but deals with the same issue from a different angle. It's also on the long side for A ChoralNet blog, but it seemed to make sense to keep all […]
Stick Time: Dramatic Capabilities of Choral Sound
Have you ever noticed that where film music is concerned the chorus tends to occupy the extreme fringes? Beyond almost any musical reference to Heaven in a film score, our beloved art is utilized to communicate extreme solemnity (Mansions of the Lord, at the end of We Were Soldiers), life & death situations (Battle of […]
Stick Time: Sonic Expectations from Visual Cues
We’re visual creatures. We make far more decisions with our eyes than any of us would care to admit. We also listen visually. (If you disagree, then forgo putting your choir in matching attire – let them wear “whatever.”). Look at the attire of the choir in the accompanying video. Based on what you […]
Stick Time: From Pop to Palestrina
Six guys walk into a school assembly . . . it almost sounds like the beginning of joke doesn’t it? Seriously, though, six twenty-something men walk into a school to present an assembly. Members of an A Cappella ensemble, they could easily just beat-box their way through covers of pop tunes to the shrieking […]
GUEST BLOG: “The Opera Aspirant” by Edward Palmer
The Opera Aspirant ~ by Edward Palmer Opera students bring something special to the choral conductor: a deeper interestin dramatic values in a piece of music. Their instinct for the dynamics of language and emotion puts them in a more inquiring state of mind for things vocal. Their sound will add a special dimension […]