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Whoa, where did this new ChoralNet come from? I liked the old one better.   The old ChoralNet hasn’t gone anywhere. The same Forums, Classifieds, Announcements. The same ChoralNet Daily, although you might notice a few little improvements there. The same personalized subscriptions.   What’s new (besides a new logo and a few color changes) […]

We’ve featured these before, but this is better than most:     h/t Thoughtful Gestures.

Just saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and this quote caught my ear, from Act I, scene 2: We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains. Be perfect. Adieu. I’m going to try my darndest to rehearse obscenely and courageously next time.

I won't tell you what website this came from, but when registering you have to click a checkbox agreeing to the "terms of use". If you click on the words "terms of use" to read them, this is what you get. Should I agree to these?   Somebody threw their website together in a hurry.

I mentioned Vern Sanders’ blog yesterday.   As I was looking it over, I spotted a short listing of anniversaries that choral composers might like to know about:     I know that I am considering music for the fall . . perhaps you see a composer there that you want to celebrate.  

Do you know about Vern Sanders’ DotDotDot blog?   It is a website you must know if you are a church musician these days and all choral musicians can benefit from following Vern’s blog, twitter, or anything else he may put out there!   Look over his website and let me know what you think. […]

Kenneth Woods tells a moving story about a violinist who’s not going to make it to the concert because she’s expected to die of cancer before then, but she struggles to come to the rehearsal. Suddenly, drilling this program to the highest possible level didn’t seem like such an important goal. What could I… what […]

It’s summertime, so that means literature hunting, right?   I’m taking a YouTube journey through the Monteverdi madrigals and posting whatever looks interesting.   At present, I’m exploring Monteverdi’s Book IV madrigals and here are the results so far:   1.  Ah, dolente partita!  An incredible video, featured here in Monday’s blog posting. 2.  Cor […]

 I decided I needed to learn more about Monteverdi’s madrigals, so I got a cheap Dover score (Books IV and V) and headed to YouTube.   I think YouTube is the future Choral Literature class (and I’m sure other’s have beat me to that realization).   A very creative rendering of Monteverdi’s “Ah dolente partita!” […]

JOHANNESBURG—Members of the South Africa Vuvuzela Philharmonic Orchestra, widely considered to be among the best large-scale monotonic wind instrument ensembles in the world, told reporters Friday they were furious over the recent outbreaks of international soccer matches during their traditional outdoor concerts.   From The Onion (warning: satire) Look for the reference to Arvo Pärt.