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Congratulations to ACDA’s National Women’s R&S Chair for her recent feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Women’s choirs . . . are now well recognized as a means to not only broaden students’ musical experience but to help keep them enrolled. Ms. Levine, chairwoman of the music department at California State Polytechnic University at […]

Gosh, I love YouTube:  

Continuing to think of the American Choral Directors Association imperative of mentoring the choral profession, I began my blog last week with the statement that mentoring had more to do with the why of what we do than the when, what, where, or even the significant how of our work. When we explore the question […]

Great leadership quotes abound on the internet.  Here are a few from famous leaders: A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  — Dwight Eisenhower  Don’t tell people how to do things, tell […]

Here I continue my quest for great Monteverdi music – this one is superb!  

Thanks to Tom Carter who pointed me to this:  

I recently purchased the Pandora One Desktop client for my computer at school – it is quite nice!  (there is a free version you can try) I only have two radio stations: Tony Bennett Radio (great standards) Faire Is the Heaven (choral music) I don’t think Pandora is adjusting well to my “Faire is the Heaven” […]

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 […]