CHORAL ETHICS (Part 3): KINDNESS IS NOT FOR WIMPS by Marie Grass Amenta (This is the third installment of a five-part series on choral ethics, exploring what it means to be ethical in this often unethical business.) “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is easy to […]
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GUEST BLOG: Choral Ethics (Part 1): “Songs my Mother Taught Me,” by Marie Grass Amenta
CHORAL ETHICS (Part 1): SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME by Marie Grass Amenta (This is the first installment of a five-part series on choral ethics, exploring what it means to be ethical in this often unethical business.) Choral Ethics isn’t rocket science, complicated or anything we haven’t heard before, we just need to […]
A reminder for Christmas
I know that there is still some time to go until Christmas is upon us but if one is still working out which Christmas carols to perform at any festive concerts please have a look at my ‘free for everyone’ piece titled The Age Old Reason for Joy. I’m excited that here in the UK […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 7, 2014
In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – September 7, 2014 Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern. Rob Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music The Classical Stationhttp://theclassicalstation.org …………………………… 08:00:34 Pierre Villette: […]
Composition Spotlight: “Seek a Place of Breathless Beauty “
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (Each week we look at one or two of the best choral works posted in the Composition Showcase here on ChoralNet. This is where we store a treasure trove of works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear.) Seek a Place of Breathless Beauty […]
Speaking of Voice: “My Go-To Warm-Up” by Michael Hayden
MY GO-TO WARM UP, by Michael Hayden (Mira Costa High School Choir) My choral go to warm-up is the lip bubble or lip trill. The movement of air created by bubbling takes out all the muscle in the sound, efficiently targets pitch and keeps the phrase moving forward. It also develops great warmth, richness […]