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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.    

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 […]

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 […]

Paul Carey takes a moment to celebrate an inspiring program for male singers in his blog.   A bit of it here:   Let’s all of us music leaders around the country do our part to get more and more boys and men singing. It’s only a recent US societal phenomena that playing or just […]

Time is ticking away for the ACDA Honor Choir Submission . . . . . read all about it here.   That also means that members can begin registration for the ACDA Chicago Conference beginning today!  Get your registration in early!   Oh, and don't forget about the fantastic program I told you about yesterday […]

For those who have never heard of the program, IPA Now is a brilliant program that automatically transcribes several languages (Latin, French, German, Italian) into IPA Symbols.   For one week, Kelly Turner (owner of IPA Now!) has agreed to give ChoralNet members the program for a discounted price of $17.99.   Here is the […]