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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 […]

All of the record labels turned them down, so they released it themselves.  And now, the recording is tops on iTunes.     Patrick Quigley told ChoralNet about it on Monday.  I thought it needed a little more prominence, so here is the story:   From WMU News: A new compact disc by the Western […]

A Cappella News points us to this: The A Cappella Condom Song is back! In August 2008, when www.condomcondom.org was launched by the BBC World Service Trust as part of its Condom Normalization mass media campaign, it was primarily to showcase the campaign and enable people to download the ‘Condom a Cappella’ ringtone. Within the […]