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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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A woman here in Birmingham is blogging about the new organ in her church.  It comes from an important perspective – she is in charge of the outreach responsibilities at her church and she has been dealing with the cost of a new organ and upgrades to the sanctuary.   Here is how what she […]

I have been a subscriber of Saint James Music Press (SJMP) for the past year. For those of you that don't know about it, SJMP is an online publishing house that offers yearly subscriptions to it's website. Once you have a subscription, you have access to the entire catalog and you can make as many […]

The chance to hear great choral performance – both brilliantly-performed gems of the standard repertoire and new cutting-edge compositions – is one of the main reasons people attend ACDA Conferences. Now you can put the music from ACDA's most recent National Conference in your favorite digital listening device.  A thumbdrive containing 300 selections (MP3 Format) […]