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Bruffy in Rehearsal
More choir directors seem to be blogging these days! In this blog post, Chuck King discusses some of the things he took away from the IL-ACDA Summer Retreat. Charles Bruffy was the guest conductor and this is what impressed Mr. King: This year’s guest conductor was Charles Bruffy. Mr. Bruffy is the artistic […]
World Choir Games from a Personal Perspective
Kim Durr has been a music educator in public and private schools for thirty years. She currently teaches at Broadway Bound Academy in Loveland, Ohio, and co-chairs the music advisory committee for World Choir Games Cincinnati 2012. Here, she offers a personal perspective on an INTERKULTUR Choir Competition and Festival, and a call to participation in the […]
Performance in church?
Jeffrey Tucker has a post up defending the use of the word "performance" to describe what a church choir does during church service. I'm not sure I agree with his analysis. He seems to think, quoting a 1987 document on liturgical reform (shown at right) that the principal objection to the word "perform" is […]
What does Mack Wilberg say to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
Jeffery Carter lets us in on some of the rehearsal feedback Mack Wilberg gives the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir: “The have to see your faces! Fifty percent of your communication is in your face.” When the choir wasn’t getting a passage: “You gotta take it home and work on it.” About the word […]
Is it a collaboration or a dictatorship?
One of the phrases that I frequently use in my technology presentations is this: “We are masters of collaboration in the rehearsal hall, but novices when it comes to working together as a profession.” I use that phrase as a way of bringing attention to the need for our choral profession to bond […]
Swingle Singers do it Underground
How cool is this?
Genetic determinants of sight-reading
Jocelyn Lavin (on Second Altos Like the Bottom Parts) points us to an article on Science News about why some people are better at sight-reading than others: Any piano player who practices sight-reading for thousands of hours will get pretty good at it, say study coauthors Elizabeth Meinz of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and David […]
Choir Auditions with FileMaker Pro
A different sort of blog today – Leonard Ratzlaff uses FileMaker Pro to assist him in all facets of auditioning and he created a short presentation for ChoralNet users. I uploaded the presentation to FileShare to show you: Auditions with file maker pro View more presentations from philipco.