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Peder Karlsson is leaving The Real Group.   From The Real Blog:    Dear Friends,   I write this note to announce that I will soon leave the baritone chair in The Real Group to a new singer – Morten Vinther Sørensen from Denmark. (check video here) I take this new direction in my life […]

If you “google” the name “Timothy Sharp”, you will find three people with that name emerge. The first is a polished, affable, dapper choral director. The second runs a clinic called the “Happiness Clinic.” And the third person you will find is, well … me. The two Timothy Sharps that are active in the American […]

I just went to a performance of The Music Man at the local middle school, and apart from the irony of seeing all these parents gush about their children's incompetent performance after seeing a show in which parents are parodied for doing that exact thing, it called to mind that my recent post about this […]

Well, it’s sort of like a choir:    

The video below reminds me of this post from a year ago – and it caused a bit of a stir here among the ChoralNet faithful.  See what you think about this video from our friend Jeffrey Carter, who heard about it from someone else:     “Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media […]

I’ve been reading a fascinating book recently which I can recommend: The Rest Is Noise, by New Yorker music reviewer Alex Ross. It’s a history of music in the 20th century. It wouldn’t be suitable as a textbook for a music history class, since there are no musical notation examples (although he doesn’t shy away […]

Author Dan Pink pointed his twitter readers out to this great video – created by his daughter and friends!    

[one of an occasional series on political correctness in church anthems…]   Today’s travesty: the anonymous Renaissance anthem Rejoice in the Lord Alway, which contains the line "let your softness be known unto all men", now corrected to "…be known to all the world".   My wife, who directs the children’s choir, last year had […]

Richard Sparks is compiling the literature he’s performed over the last ten years and posting it on his blog.   I love reading lists like this – they introduce me to names I do not know and sometimes reinforce similar programming thoughts.   Check out Richard’s list and see if it means anything to you.