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A world record, it seems: A choir of 2,000 attempted to set a world record on Saturday by singing one of Switzerland’s best-loved traditional songs, a herdsman’s melody from canton Fribourg. Saturday’s performance at Villars-sur-Glâne was recorded on camera, and a legal attestation will be sent to the Guinness Book of Records for approval. The […]

I applaud every move in the book publishing industry as authors go direct to their customers and I long for the day music publishing abandons the paper-postage business model.  (You’ll find recent posts of mine on the topic here, here, here, and here.   In an article published on Gizmodo, Micheal Ashley charts the benefits […]

Our long-anticipated registration for the 2011 American Choral Directors Association Chicago National Conference opens this week, and I am pleased to share all of the exciting details.   We return to Chicago, Illinois this year for the National ACDA Conference the week of March 9-12, 2011. Chicago was home to our 1999 National Conference, the […]

NBC is sponsoring a Show Choir competition.     Look here for details and dates:   IMPORTANT DATES: Wednesday, September 29th: Launch Friday, October 15th: End of Competition Thursday, October 21st: Announce 4 Finalists on-air Friday, October 22nd: Announce Winner on-air Wednesday, November 10th: Winners fly to NYC Thursday, November 11th: Winners perform on-air   […]

In yesterday's ChoralBlog, we read Tim Sharp's excellent preview of the 2011 ACDA National Conference in Chicago.  On the heels of that, I want to speak briefly about the audition process for the 2011 ACDA Honor Choirs in Chicago that ended on October 1st.  I want to take a moment to celebrate the process, because […]

In 1971, Abbie Hoffman wrote a book entitiled Steal This Book as a countercultural manifesto. The equivalent in the digital age is to encourage people to share recordings of your performances:   At the Straight No Chaser concert in Fort Wayne on Friday night, the typical ban on recording the concert was lifted. “We wouldn’t […]

  Watch it all the way to the end (only 30 seconds). h/t Chris Rowbury, who has a bunch of good suggestions for handling chatting during rehearsals with adults.

Lucerne Mottaz, writing in Choral Director magazine, got out of the Glee rat race: So the kids proposed that we make it a class project to watch “Glee” and talk about it every other Friday, during tutorial. I thought to myself, “Sure, why not. It will be a great way to connect with the kids […]

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Quite catchy.