If you are about to face a group of middle school or high school chorus students in the upcoming school year who have been taught by a teacher they absolutely adored, you may be feeling like you’ve just been hired to replace Robert Shaw…iconic 20th Century Choral Conductor! It is so scary. Can you imagine […]
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Choral Potpourri: Remembering Our Mentors
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Abraham Lincoln Like many of you, I’ve been cleaning out my rehearsal briefcase and assorted rehearsal bags during the last few weeks. The centerpiece of each rehearsal bag, besides my folder of music, is a legal pad folio with a pen […]
To Publish or Not to Publish? – See-A-Dot Music Publishing
The answer, of course, is to publish! As a composer, you are sitting on a collection of potentially money-making assets and it is in your best interest to make them available to the public. The real question is whether or not you should self-publish or find a company to publish your music instead. To answer […]
Compline Collection
As one of my bucket list projects, your fearless Anglo/Roman/Moravian Komplinmeister has assembled a 2357 item, Collection of music and chant for Compline in .pdf and Word. The entire collection or any one of its 20 individual folders is now available for free download from my Dropbox. If you have Sibelius software, you can contact […]
Don’t leave points on the table! (How your choir can kill it at competition), with Ryan Guth
In today’s Technique Tuesday, learn the secrets to crushing it at choral competitions used each season by yours truly (the only guy in history to perform an encore at the Music in the Parks festival). Show Notes (Topics discussed within the episode) LISTEN HERE Planning Stage Choose appropriate repertoire (tempos, solos, accompaniments) Warm-up selection or not? Preparing […]
Choral Potpourri: Shut Up and Sing; Things I’d Like to Say to My Choirs, But Don’t
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” Emily Post Beginning next week and the rest of the month of May, we will explore a Choral Ethics way of looking at the hiring—and firing—of choral directors. […]