Try hot yoga! Or a nose hat! Calgary Philharmonic Chorus has a big hit this winter – singing Tweets about how to keep warm! When I first saw it, there were 20,000 hits and that has turned into 56,459 at the time I posted this on 12/13/2011. This from the Calgary Herald: […]
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Local chorus adds polish to children’s voices
By Stuart Oskenhorn SNOWMASS VILLAGE, CO — For several years, Paul Dankers, music director of the Snowmass Chapel and a enthusiast for vocal music, had been thinking that what the Roaring Fork Valley needed was a children’s choir. But Dankers was envisioning a serious endeavor, where the students would learn traditional repertoire and classical […]
Play List for Great Sacred Music, Sunday, December 11, 2011
Great Sacred Music is 4 hours this Sunday! It’s the final day of WCPE’s December Membership Drive. Anyway, lots of shortish selections as a result. The show airs Sunday mornings from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 fm in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org Happy Holidays! Rob …………………………………………………………. 08:04:19a Gordon Slater: […]
End of Semester Reflection
Here are a few brief questions to ask yourself in the quiet of your own thoughts as this semester draws to a close . . . <> Did the repertoire meet the needs of the choir? <> Is the choir better today than it was on September 1? <> Are the individual choir members […]
CJ Replay: Successful Women Conductors
“All too often, a women’s choir is a kind of leftover group, seen as a fallback for singers who are not selected for a mixed ensemble or for less experienced singers at the freshmen level of high school or college. Competition with other ensembles at the school or in the community is made more difficult […]
Brain Bubbles: Wash the Dishes
“There’s nothing like coming home to a clean house.” So goes the slogan of a well-known home cleaning service, and they are absolutely correct – walking into a freshly cleaned house after a long day is a great feeling. The reverse is also true isn’t it? Padding into the kitchen in the morning […]