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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 […]

The ChoralNet community that follows this blog may be interested in this:   Number of Hits ChoralNet gets per day:     Somewhere between 3000 and 4000.  Monday and Tuesday are the biggest day.     Notes from recent Copeland Technology Session:   For any of you that have attended my technology sessions at ACDA […]

 What an incredible choir and piece of music – perfect for your Saturday listening needs:   “Salve Regina” by Josep Vila i Casañas    

Acting off a Dan Pink twitter link, I read the article from Harvard Business Reivew called the 12 Things Good Bosses believe.   I thought it might be worthwhile for choral directors, so I changed up some of the words and made it more applicable for choir directors.  See what you think, and give me your […]

Recent findings from IBM’s Institute for Business Value survey was published last week in Business Week magazine and demonstrate one competency leadership values above all others. I share this common value related to the work of the American Choral Directors Association.     On my desk at the ACDA National Headquarters are nine ink pens, a […]

I was at Podium 2010 and had a few moments to visit with Leonard Ratzlaff, a prominent Canadian conductor at the University of Alberta.  I’m a big fan of Len and have blogged about him before.   Len is a special kind of conductor.  When he performs Monteverdi, he makes you want to perform Monteverdi. […]

This one doesn’t need much commentary:     Pay attention to some of the comments at the end, including this one:   “Psalm 103 says ‘Forget not his benefits.’ Alzheimers is not scriptural.”

Brian Galante conducts the PLU Chorus in Ticheli’s “There Will Be Rest.”