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It is a blessed time in my part of the world – our occasional two inches of snow/ice has shut down roads, schools, and airports.  That, combined with the National Championship football game tonight, has really captured the state of Alabama.   In honor of the weather event, I bring you the SFSU Women's Chorus […]

Do you remember playing hand games as a child? I still play them with my daughter when we are waiting on a flight, standing in line at a concert, or at other points of utter boredom. One of our routine hand games is "Scissors, Paper, Stone." Each player counts together, outloud, to three, each time […]

  Thank you, A Cappella News.

Pretty funny YouTube video combining singing and Kanye West twitter posts.  

University researchers, always mindful of the next tenure review, are studying children’s voices: Choir boys, and more recently choir girls, have been enchanting congregations for centuries with their distinctive voices. Professor David Howard, from the University of York, thinks there is more to the choristers’ sound than meets the ear. Working with music trainer Jenevora […]

An important vote for ACDA is coming up – keep reading.   The American Choral Directors Association is holding a national election through the end of January for the position of National Chair of the Repertoire and Standards Committee (R&S). Members may vote by clicking on this link.   The R&S Committee is one of […]

We all tend to make resolutions at the beginning of the year; we take stock of our lives and future as we begin a new calendar year.   Dan Pink is an author and speaker I've quoted many times in this blog (a few are here, here, and here).     He's got two questions that […]

Let’s start the first Monday of 2011 with a look back – way back – to some finely produced videos of Mozarabic Chant.     Here is a bit of the YouTube description of the work: The chant is an heavily-abridged version of Daniel 3:49-52, 57, 88. These verses are not present in 66-book Bibles […]

Has anyone done this?   I read a “tweet” last night about a guy selling his 400 piece choral collection on ebay – I sent him a message to ask how much he got for it but haven’t heard back yet.   I’m curious – because I, like you, have thousands of pieces of choral […]

Happy 2011!   A popular video making the rounds today is the one below – it shows a series of AT&T commercials predicting the iPad, Netflix, video-conferencing, and online teaching.  It is pretty impressive – and it also points to the importance of dreaming your future.   The ACDA Technology committee is dreaming now about […]