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Saturday Respite: Pepsi in the Opera
After you stop laughing, try to name all of the operas sampled in this ridiculously funny old commercial.
Saturday Respite: Singing the Praises of Chocolate
I'm not sure which was funnier, the thoroughly befuddled conductor or the ego-maniacal singers.
Teaching Musical Citizenship
According to current census data, far less than a third of Americans have an undergraduate college education – 27.2% to be exact. The numbers are even worse for advanced degrees; only 8.9% hold a Master’s degree, with just 3% having earned a doctorate. (In Friday's ChoralBlog, Joshua Bronfman will make some fascinating observations about the […]
Composition Spotlight: Do Not Stand at My Grave
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!) Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Janet Lanier for TTBB and piano Level: High school […]
Choral Music of the Americas
This looks quite interesting: The North Dakota State University Department of Music and the American Choral Directors Association announce the NDSU Choral Symposium: Music of the Americas, May 3-5, 2013, in Fargo, ND. This event will showcase the choral music and traditions of North, Central, and South America. The focus of the symposium will […]
Technology enables art in Les Miserable
Singers and musicians will be interested int he technical adjustments that make the new movie version of Les Miserable possible in a movie to be released this Christmas. I still remember the first time I saw this show. I was in London, probably in 1989, and sitting high in the balcony behind a post […]
Studying Choral Music and Musicians – a click away
I hope everyone that follows choral music is aware of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing – an online resource that is edited by James Daugherty. We are fortunate to have this journal and I’m glad that it is now officially associated with ACDA. From the ACDA website: “We are delighted that […]