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I'm thrilled to see all of these new ventures into music publishing.  Today I am featuring Kansas City Music Publishing.   In case you are new to ChoralNet, we talk about music publishing often on this blog.  Here are some of the articles from the past: Transforming Gutenberg Grounded Economics Publishers vs. Creators Future Models […]

I’ve noted with respect the way LSU has said goodbye to longtime professor Ken Fulton as he retires this year.  They’ve celebrated his tenure with ceremony and class.  LSU also included him on the search committee to choose a new conductor.   It doesn’t always go that way, does it?   Sometimes there is no […]

In the musical Rent, Seasons of Love asks “how do you measure a year in the life?” The clinical way of doing so sounds something like “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes”, but the song rhetorically asks, how do you really measure a year in the life?   Most of us are completing a […]

I got this email about a new service:   I developed an online based software solution for choirs to improve the rate at which they can learn repertoire. The software provides an online multitrack mixer/player and media hosting hub so a teacher/director can prepare recordings of individual voice and instrumental parts and post them for […]

I have long admired how Eric Whitacre uses technology.  He recently shared the germ of an idea on his blog – a little motive that may find a way into his next masterpiece:     Read what he said about it here. Keep it up, Eric. Fascinating stuff.  

One of the newest features on ChoralNet is the Applaud button, which lets you express agreement with a reply to a forum thread without having to write a separate reply agreeing. Quick and easy. It’s similar to the Like button on Facebook.   You can also Applaud replies to Community forums or ChoralBlog. But you […]

Sometimes in a concert we want (desperately) for one selection to flow into another seamlessly, without  the knife of applause that severing performance energy and sonic cohesion.  Surely ALL of us have had an elegant transition diminished by a well-intentioned audience member who just HAD to clap their hands.   In today's conducting study, we […]

We’ve added a few new features to ChoralNet, including: The Announcements, Forums, and Classifieds menus now include the ten most recent entries The Communities menu not only lists your communities but also the most recent community forum entries The MyChoralNet menu includes the most recent entries in your subscriptions The Resources menu is now hierarchical […]

A hymn I didn’t know with an incredible refrain:     Special thanks to Wes Ramsey for putting this on his Facebook page.

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