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Vern Sanders captures the highlights from Morna Edmundson’s presentation at Podium 2010.    A few of her questions: Does this piece have a beautiful melody? Does this piece have architecture/structure/shape? Does the text of this piece create possibilities to explore expression, dynamics, and/or tone color? Does this piece allow the singers to sing most of […]

I am in Saskatoon, Canada and attending Podium 2010.    Podium is Canada’s equivalent to the national ACDA conference but a far more intimate event.  Everyone knows each other here – we all fit into a banquet hall last night and shared a meal and awards ceremony together.  Perhaps I will get a list of the […]

  This is why live music is so much better. Soon you won’t be able to tell music recorded by humans from processed electronica.

A Slovenian television network produces a 40-minute documentary on choral conducting. It’s in English, though, interviewing conductors from many countries.   Can’t embed; you’ll have to click on the link to see it.   h/t Alan Davis

I’m attending Canada’s Podium 2010 this weekend and I heard the National Youth Choir of Canada last night perform.   It was a wonderful and lengthy concert!  One of the most memorable was Agneau de Dei by Rupert Lang, performed here by Musica Intima:       More to come later.

Peder Karlsson is leaving The Real Group.   From The Real Blog:    Dear Friends,   I write this note to announce that I will soon leave the baritone chair in The Real Group to a new singer – Morten Vinther Sørensen from Denmark. (check video here) I take this new direction in my life […]

If you “google” the name “Timothy Sharp”, you will find three people with that name emerge. The first is a polished, affable, dapper choral director. The second runs a clinic called the “Happiness Clinic.” And the third person you will find is, well … me. The two Timothy Sharps that are active in the American […]

I just went to a performance of The Music Man at the local middle school, and apart from the irony of seeing all these parents gush about their children's incompetent performance after seeing a show in which parents are parodied for doing that exact thing, it called to mind that my recent post about this […]

Well, it’s sort of like a choir: