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That’s What I Am, but only with support
I recently watched the movie That's What I Am, a coming-of-age movie released earlier this year with a message of tolerance for those different from you, especially gays (although it's set in the 1960s). In the climax of the movie, a secondary character shows his courage by singing an original song a cappella for […]
Insert Tortoise joke here
A commenter on Philip's recent post about copyrighting the Dead Sea Scrolls mentioned that although the scrolls themselves might be in public domain, photographs of them might be copyrightable. This might be true technically, but it violates the purpose of copyright, which is to protect creative work. Some photographs are artistic and obviously should […]
Contacting the Publishers Directly about YouTube
I was pleased to find another choral musician publicizing information about YouTube performances of choral music. Jack Senzig, director of the Gifford Children’s Choir of Racine, WI, has been a choral director for 20+ years and he's trying to provide a useful service for my professional colleagues. He has created a site called the […]
Copyrighting the Dead Sea Scrolls
Stephen Downs is a leader in technology in the field of education. In this blog post, her touches on a subject that frequents this ChoralBlog: copyright. The subject? The Dead Sea Scrolls: Given their age, I would expect copyright has expired on them, but the proprietors of the web site beg to differ, […]
Featured Community: South Dakota ACDA
Over the next few months, ACDA will be encouraging local chapters to move their communications operations to ChoralNet. South Dakota's state ACDA chapter has been blazing a trail in this regard, recruiting 72 ChoralNet members to their community and posting information about conferences, honor choirs, leadership positions, and so on. They've made great use of […]
The Discipline of Teams
This fall I have been particularly attentive to team-building. As I observe my daughter's varsity women's volleyball team move from a group of skilled players in their pre-season play, to becoming an actual functioning team in their current conference competitions, I have applied some of the concepts observed to my work at team building in […]
Stick Time: Clarity in a Large Choir
I had a band colleague a few years ago who faced a problem. The football coaches were pressuring him constantly to increase the size of the marching band. It didn't seem to matter that he already had the biggest band in the conference, that the rehearsal hall was filled to overflowing and that there were […]
Saturday Respite: The Simpsons
Life’s too short to not have a little fun. All one can say is, “Doh!”
Sunday Inspiration: Russian Orthodox Monks
It’s Sunday. Try to relax a little.
Tell me what this choral piece is about
ChoralNet reader Michael Zaugg recommended this video to me but didn't tell me what the work was about. It is an impressive piece of videography, especially on my 27'' monitor! Can you help me figure it out? <p><a data-cke-saved-href="http://vimeo.com/29583282" href="http://vimeo.com/29583282">Männerstimmen Basel | TRAILER | tøngedrøhn</a> from <a data-cke-saved-href="http://vimeo.com/maennerstimmen" href="http://vimeo.com/maennerstimmen">maennerstimmen basel</a> on <a […]