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While the world's athletes prepare for competition at the Olympics in London, over three hundred choirs are gathering to compete in the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The event launched on July 4 and will run through the 14th.  This is the first time the World Choir Games have been held in the United […]

"QR" – two letters of the alphabet.  "QR Code" – those square bar codes.   Quick Response codes (ah…Quick Response!) are EVERYWHERE these days.  You scan them with your smartphone and woosh! you are transported to a website with more information about the product.  From Kellogg's to the US Marines, it seems everyone is getting […]

Available July 3 from your favorite bookseller (online or off), Murder for Choir, is the first in Joelle Charbonneau’s Glee Club Mystery series. Penguin, who designates the book appropriate for 18-and-up, summarizes the novel:   Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen […]

Join me on July 4 along with the combined choirs of our US Military singing "The Star-Spangled Banner". Forward this video* to your singing friends, choir members, relatives….anyone that would like to sing along with our US national choral treasures, the Navy Sea Chanters, Army Chorus, Army Soldiers' Chorus, Air Force Singing Sergeants, and Washington […]

It hit 104 in Alabama yesterday and I know it was hotter in other parts of the United States.   So let’s think about something else – winter!   A little Debussy to brighten our Sunday:    

I'm getting ready to start the planning process again for my 2012-2013 literature.  Most of you are probably ahead of me!   I am looking at the composer anniversaries in 2012 to help guide my selection of literature for the fall.   I consulted this list of the Top 5 Composer anniversaries in 2012 and […]

(From the Choral Journal article "Brickbats and Bouquets (or An Open Letter to Publishers)," by Maurice King)   We congratulate and comment to purchasers, those publishers who DO include the following helpful features in their choral publications:   1. Stapling sheets together. 2. Avoiding loose (single) sheets when at all possible. (We have before us […]

Back in the 1930s, a scientist postulated that the bubblebee somehow defied the laws of aerodynamics.  Based on what was known about flight 80 years ago, he was correct.  The bumblebee doesn't fly like airplane, however, rather like a helicopter (a craft that wasn't understood at that time). Thus it is with this performance. How […]

It’s still nine months away, but SOME of us are already eagerly anticipating the next ACDA National Conference (Dallas Texas, March 13-16, 2013).  Send your supervisor a note TODAY letting them know you’ll be in the Lone Star State that week.   In the meantime, here’s a little taste from our last National Conference.