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Registration Opens for ACDA Chicago National Conference
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 […]
Have you heard about the Show Choir competition for NBC’s Today Show?
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 […]
A Resounding Success: Online ACDA Honor Choir Submissions
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 […]
Steal This Concert
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 […]
Don’t talk during rehearsals
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.
Gleeless
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 […]
The iPad Street Musician
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Double shots of plainsong
Quite catchy.
Sound of Music Reunion
From A Cappella News: For the first time in 45 years, the entire cast of The Sound of Music will gather for a reunion on the Oprah show stage on Oct. 29. Stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, along with fellow cast members Charmian Carr (“Liesl”), Nicholas Hammond (“Friedrich”), Heather Menzies-Urich (“Louisa”), Duane Chase […]
Semper ubi sub ubi
There are regular messages on ChoralNet's forums asking for help in translating Latin passages. Amazingly enough, Google Translate now can translate passages from Latin to English. As with all machine translations, it's not likely to be very reliable, but for quick-and-dirty, just to get the gist of the meaning, it's a valuable tool. And […]