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Paul Carey works to tell it like it is!   In this blog post, Paul blasts the composition competitions that charge an entry fee in order to fund the grand prize.   Lots of juicy stuff here.  First, a story about composer Paul Crabtree:   recently a very talented composer who you may know, Paul […]

Vern Sanders captures the highlights from Morna Edmundson’s presentation at Podium 2010.    A few of her questions: Does this piece have a beautiful melody? Does this piece have architecture/structure/shape? Does the text of this piece create possibilities to explore expression, dynamics, and/or tone color? Does this piece allow the singers to sing most of […]

I am in Saskatoon, Canada and attending Podium 2010.    Podium is Canada’s equivalent to the national ACDA conference but a far more intimate event.  Everyone knows each other here – we all fit into a banquet hall last night and shared a meal and awards ceremony together.  Perhaps I will get a list of the […]

  This is why live music is so much better. Soon you won’t be able to tell music recorded by humans from processed electronica.

A Slovenian television network produces a 40-minute documentary on choral conducting. It’s in English, though, interviewing conductors from many countries.   Can’t embed; you’ll have to click on the link to see it.   h/t Alan Davis

I’m attending Canada’s Podium 2010 this weekend and I heard the National Youth Choir of Canada last night perform.   It was a wonderful and lengthy concert!  One of the most memorable was Agneau de Dei by Rupert Lang, performed here by Musica Intima:       More to come later.

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 […]