Some of the great items available at Chorus America’s auction: Workshops with Anton Armstrong and Rollo Dilworth – these renowned conductors will rehearse with your chorus for a day and then perform with them in-concert. Gift certificates for music publishers, including Hal Leonard, earthsongs, Caldwell & Ivory. 20 deluxe “loaded” versions of The Black Folder […]
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Craig Hella Johson, Ellie Johnson, David von Kampen and Babatunde HipHopera!
Subscribe for free and never miss out on the conversation. The show is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or ANY podcast player! Last month might have been the best yet! Happy Labor Day! The month of August had five Fridays, so you got five episodes to get our school and choir years started! It is my […]
Choral Ethics: What Is Difficult
“Music is the easy part, it’s everything else that’s difficult.” Rose Marie Ditto Grass (1927-2014) My Mom, a coloratura soprano, used to tell us music was the easy part, everything else was hard. She told us in various ways, in various situations, or used some such variant when it seemed applicable. Several of us became […]
ChoralEd: Alternative Sight-Reading Activities
Daily sight-reading in the choral classroom is a beneficial instructional practice that promotes music literacy skills. However, this pedagogical approach is, at times, disinteresting to students due to the repetitive use of exercises from a methods book. While consistency is important when teaching music literacy, variety is also beneficial, providing students with a new and […]
The Music Literacy Suite From Choralosophy
A large and GROWING free music literacy resource for music educators! View the Whole YouTube Playlist In the most recent episode, we have referenced a few resources, provided in the Patreon Google Folder. The “Science of Reading” refers to a large body of interdisciplinary evidence. The past 40 years has yielded tremendous, interdisciplinary insights into the process […]
Audition now for Minnetonka Choral Society (Minnetonka, MN)
For those who love to sing, there is little that is more satisfying than hearing voices joining together in song. Minnetonka Choral Society (MCS) offers those in the western metro area of Minneapolis/St. Paul a music group to do just that. Our singers enjoy learning new music as well as returning to old standards on […]