Matthew Oltman joins Distinguished Concerts International New York Music Director Emeritus of Chanticleer Joins DCINY’s Program Development Team For Immediate Release, June 4, 2012, New York, NY …. Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) is delighted to welcome Matthew Oltman to the company’s Program Development team. Throughout his career as a singer, conductor […]
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Jubilee pageant joy for composer and soloist
By Karen Bate SALISBURY, UK — IT is promised to be the greatest spectacle the River Thames has ever seen. On Sunday, the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant will feature 1,000 boats, 20,000 eager participants and millions of cheering spectators. And Ringwood composer, choral conductor and soloist Jeremy Avis will be hearing his four pieces, commissioned […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, June 3, 2012
The show airs each Sunday on http://theclassicalstation.org from 8 – 11 a.m. eastern. Your host is Rob Kennedy. ———————————————————————- 08:00:00 Anton Bruckner: Gradual: Christus factus est pro nobis Corydon Singers, Matthew Best 08:06:31 Gregorian chant: Processional hymn: Judicii signum; Troped Offertory: Elevatus est rex fortis~ A Mass for the End of Time Anonymous 4 […]
Charisma and Tyranny
Helping you Harmonise has a great blog post about how charisma can transform into tyranny, especially for choir directors: There’s a scene in the film The Iron Lady in which Margaret Thatcher is chairing a cabinet meeting just ferociously. Hardly anyone dares speak, and when they do she slaps them down. There is an edge […]
Stick Time: Conducting Study 10
Today for our conducting study, let’s focus on the face. Generally, how do people react when you scowl at them? Now take the opposite view: when you smile as someone, isn’t that smile returned? (try it sometime) The giggles of children usually make those hearing their little peals of joy laugh too. So […]
Stick Time: Conducting Study 9
As conductors, what we DON’T do is oftentimes vastly more important than what we do. Far too many conductors become their own worst enemy by presenting obstacles to success. Even the most stout-hearted among us has felt at one time or another some degree of nervousness before a concert. We are all aware, however, […]