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This is my latest interest – personal learning networks.     As I was searching about this, I found a great website by Paul Hill along with a video.  Here is a great quote from the video:   “Twitter is a way of having open dialogue about learning with people we respect at a time […]

Alex Ross pointed out this very interesting creation:   Tim Rutherford-Johnson, of The Rambler, drew attention to the fact that the opening minutes of the work bear an uncanny resemblance to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies." Nothing in Turnage's commentary indicated a Beyoncé connection, but once you listen to the mash-up above — and see the mischievous […]

Found this on the City of Dunedin Choir blog:  

It's been awhile since we've featured an Eric Whitacre post, believe it or not!   Here, Decca has created a mini-documentary of Eric's new professional group, featured below.   He says that conducting them is like driving a Ferrari, but he's used that phrase before.  Buy hey . . . I'm sure Eric has probably […]

Some notes for your singers by noted conductors on the Singer Network:   Randi Von Ellefson says:   The new season is always a great time to consider what chorus members should be doing to prepare for the new season and for the commencement of regular rehearsals. The Canterbury Choral Society continues to send out […]

As you seek to find your way as a new teacher, a young choral conductor entering the field, or an emerging leader in your school/organization/profession, let me offer some tips. I encourage ChoralNet readers to add the "secrets of your success" by replying below with your own advice to young teachers and conductors that would […]

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Singers seem to be good for many things: Visual Thesaurus just created a database that includes pronunciations:   We’re extremely proud to announce that the Visual Thesaurus now offers accurate, high-quality audio pronunciations for every single word in our database — all 150,000 of them! This was a mammoth undertaking, and the results are unequaled […]

Who needs a choir anymore?  RequiemLight sounds just like one: Requiem Light is based on a variety of new recording- and sampling techniques some which have never before been integrated in choral sample libraries. The library can literally sound like a real choir and includes both full choir (SATB), divisi groups (males/females) and two solo […]

Liz Garnett blogs about Bertalot’s greasy pole metaphor: John Bertalot produces a wonderful description of the rehearsal process in his book How to be a Successful Choir Director. He says:   The leading of practices is like pushing a man up a greasy pole. He goes up with a bit of effort, but slides down naturally […]