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Stick Time: Understanding the Changing Voice
When preparing to teach choral music at the secondary level, the conductor must be equipped to help these singers manage their developing voices. Therefore, one of the first steps toward successfully working with adolescents in a choral rehearsal is for the teacher to obtain a thorough understanding of the changing voice.1 With […]
What Makes An Idea Stick?
My thanks for ACDA Northwest Division President-elect Dr. Gary Weidenaar for pointing me to the thinking of Chip and Dan Heath in their 2008 book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. For anyone interested in creativity and innovation, this book gives thought-provoking stories to back up the authors' thesis that "stickiness" […]
Sweet Singing from the Simpsons
Mike Sheibe posted this on his Facebook account . . . I thought it was too cool not to share with the ChoralNet audience:
More Myers-Briggs
I talked about how I use the Myers-Briggs in my choral conducting class earlier this week. I thought I would share a little more – Here is an overview I gave to my students about the Myers-Briggs (see below). If you are interested in finding out what your personality type is, take the test on […]
Myers-Briggs and Conducting
I cover two concepts in my choral conducting class that are not about conducting. One is the Myers-Briggs personality test, the other is the Seven Habits of Highly Effective people. First, I have all my students take the Myers Briggs personality test and read about themselves. My theory is this – we can't […]
Best voice of the generation
I'm not sure if Adele is the best voice of this generation, but I really like the way she sings! Listen to Adele here if you don't know who we are talking about: Thanks, A Cappella News, for all the great leads.
Check these out
I had the opportunity to present a technology session at the Southern ACDA Conference at a roundtable. Afterwards, Pat Boozer talked to me about her creations for choral music educators: StaffWriter and SingASign. Read about them here: StaffWriter is a basic music font for making tests, activity pages, games, music dictionaries, PPT […]
Tardy Praise for Eric’s Grammy
Congratulations to Eric Whitacre for winning the grammy this year. For those who have trouble with embedded video.
Despicable A Cappella
Continuing on the theme from yesterday: