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Please excuse me for a moment while I pick my jaw up off the floor . . .

Virtuosity is virtuosity.

The pressure’s on, isn’t it? You’ll get a break next week, so just hang in there a little longer.  In the meantime, LAUGH!

So I posted last week about my perspective on the use (or disuse) of sectionals in my auditioned ensembles. The next level of accountability for me is check days, also known as quartet (or octet) testing, where singers get up in class and have to sing the selected piece, one on a part. It can be […]

If it hasn’t already started for you, it soon will.  We’re entering that time of year when the public suddenly becomes interested in choral music.  Mall managers, retirement community recreation supervisors, civic club presidents, and others of that ilk will start calling local schools asking the same question: “Do you have a group that can […]

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!)   Let the Toast Pass  by John Ward for TBB a cappella (click for PDF and audio) Level: High School Freshman Men or higher Uses: Recruitment, General Concert Use […]

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about getting recordings in, and managing them on, your computer. What do you do with them once they’re there? How do you make them the most useful for your purposes, whether for the audience, your own listening or your musicians’ practice? If you want to get it […]

A few days ago, ACDA announced the rosters for the four Honor Choirs that will sing during the 2013 National Conference in Dallas.   Now that the shouting has subsided, more than 1,000 singers who were selected must turn their attention to the task of learning a sizeable body of music.  For many of these […]