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Wow . . . can I get an “Amen?”  

“Music is a gift . . . you give it away. And if you give it away you get to keep it forever.”   ~Andy Mackie  

Commission a New Choral Work for $1 – $100 (or free)! If you missed the first announcement about this unique, first-time, low- or no-cost Commission Project that is taking place from July 15 until October 15, 2012: More than 30 talented, highly-motivated composers are participating in this special project, and for a limited time you […]

ChoralNet user Joshua Bronfman give us this:

Do you know what happens in 194 days?   If you answered, “That’s the approximate gestation period for a baboon,” you would be correct.  It also shows that you either have entirely too much free time on your hands or that you are reading the wrong web-site.   The REAL answer is that in 194 […]

A performance of “Si ch’io vorrei morire” (Monteverdi) by the Heritage High School Concert Choir (Joel Karn, conductor) during the 2012 ACDA Northwestern Division Conference in Seattle, Washington.  

A couple years ago I was pleased to make repeated treks to a local elementary school because the director of the school’s fifth-grade chorus asked for a little help in improving the esthetic quality of the group’s performance.  Back on the college campus after one such jaunt, a member of the voice faculty sniffed derisively, […]

Fascinating news from the Old South – from the Marietta Daily Journal: Who knew that the most important qualification for performing onstage with The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was not one’s musical expertise, but the color of one’s skin?   Who knew that the defining characteristic of its performances was not the sound it produces, but […]

At the beginning of the season, it can seem like there’s a never-ending pile of things to organize and schedule in order to get our groups off the ground. Thankfully, we can take audition scheduling off the list using a free online scheduling tool called Doodle. Designed to allow groups of people to remotely agree on a […]

Daley, Caron.  Moved to Learn: Dalcroze Applications to Choral Pedagogy and Practice.  Doctor of Musical Arts dissertation (in progress).  University of Toronto.            Over a century ago, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) began experimenting with a pedagogy that would give students access to their personal musical voice and a system of technique to express that voice […]