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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 […]

Kim Durr has been a music educator in public and private schools for thirty years. She currently teaches at Broadway Bound Academy in Loveland, Ohio, and co-chairs the music advisory committee for World Choir Games Cincinnati 2012.   Here, she offers a personal perspective on an INTERKULTUR Choir Competition and Festival, and a call to participation in the […]

Jeffrey Tucker has a post up defending the use of the word "performance" to describe what a church choir does during church service.   I'm not sure I agree with his analysis. He seems to think, quoting a 1987 document on liturgical reform (shown at right) that the principal objection to the word "perform" is […]

Jeffery Carter lets us in on some of the rehearsal feedback Mack Wilberg gives the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir: “The have to see your faces! Fifty percent of your communication is in your face.”   When the choir wasn’t getting a passage: “You gotta take it home and work on it.”   About the word […]

One of the phrases that I frequently use in my technology presentations is this:   “We are masters of collaboration in the rehearsal hall, but novices when it comes to working together as a profession.”   I use that phrase as a way of bringing attention to the need for our choral profession to bond […]

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