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More from Daniel Coyle: Tip #16 – Each Day, Try to Build One Perfect Chunk   Coyle notes, “In our busy lives, it’s sometimes tempting to regard merely practicing as success. . . But the real goal isn’t practice, it’s progress. As John Wooden put it, ‘Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment.’”   He then […]

From Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book of Talent: Tip #5 – Be willing to be stupid.   The point, of course, isn’t to be stupid, but to be willing to fail, to take risks. Coyle uses the example of Wayne Gretzky falling in practice and says, “As skilled as he was, Gretzky was determined to […]

For this blog series I started out with the idea of alternating books on music with books on other subjects. But I've realized that most of the great music books are fairly well known or are are so specific that they might have limited interest (maybe I'll combine some in a post later).   So […]

Browsing the forums in ChoralNet, many of our members are sharing their thoughts and questions about using the iPad in rehearsal. Many of these uses are personal– organization, notes, scores/sheet music or other individual uses. There are many cases, though, where the iPad might be used for the whole group, whether through a projector or […]

(This vocal pedagogy commentary is excerpted from the Choral Journal article, “Teaching Vocal technique from the Musical Score,” by Barbara Abramoff Levy. Share YOUR vocal expertise by writing a future installment of “Speaking of Voice.”  Contact Scott Dorsey, .)          If rehearsal time is such a precious commodity to choral conductors, how can this […]

Eric Ericson is one of the giants of our field and his work has been a model for many others: in his enthusiasm for performing and commissioning new music, in raising standards in a cappella singing, as a teacher, and as a conductor. His ensembles (Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, and Orphei Drängar) became models […]