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If you follow this blog or pay attention to any of the other classical blogs, then you may remember the controversy surrounding Leonard Slatkin a couple of months ago.   I pointed to the controversy in this blog post from April 21.    Slatkin has responded to the controversy and points to one of the […]

 Happy Independence Day!    

Yes, we’ve shown it here before, but maybe not on a Monday!  A great reminder about diction.   Enjoy:    

 . . . to see your former job advertised.   Look everyone, a great university position open in Birmingham, Alabama.  Choir sang at ACDA in Spring 2010 – wonderful students and incredible performing venue!       For more information.

David Griggs Janower pointed me to this work by Melissa Dunphy.   Here is the excerpted text as it appears in the new choral work: “Good morning, committee. My name is Phillip Spooner and I live at 5 Graham Street in Biddeford. I am 86 years old and a lifetime Republican and an active VFW […]

It is a pleasure to have an office below the archival collection of the American Choral Directors Association. Our ACDA archives are fertile ground for anyone interested in doing research on the choral profession and choral music education (hint, hint to any doctoral students reading this). In preparation for an address I recently gave to […]

Here’s an interesting video for your Thursday morning.  Perhaps put your coffee and muffin down if medical videos make you at all squeamish.   A view of the tongue working, as through the eyes of the MRI, of an opera soprano, and a beatbox emcee.     The video was featured at the Sounds and […]

Last week I took my banjo to a technician to have the neck adjusted (the “Reply” button below this blog is where you can deposit your banjo joke. I think I’ve heard them all, so if you post one, I hope it is a good one.) Why was I doing this? Because tone quality and […]