Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth….. Put out my hand and touched the face of God. High Flight , the evocative setting for choir and saxophone of John Magee’s famous poem will soon be en route to Scandinavia! The Anderson University Chorale under director Richard Sowers and with Rebecca Chappell […]
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BLUE HERON CD RELEASE
Blue Heron announces the release of its new CD!Hugh Aston: Three Marian Antiphons · Robert Jones: Magnificat · John Mason: Quales sumus O miseri (Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, vol. 1). BHCD 1002 Blue Heron, directed by Scott Metcalfe, announces the release of the second CD on its own label. The disc is the […]
Warm Reception for New Work
The audiences at the recent world premiere performances of This Big Moroccan Sea in the San Francisco Bay Area were moved by fine singing and the poignant text at the heart of this work. It also received a very favourable critical response: “….In constant movement, with ceaseless, practically subliminal activity, the voices all around the soloist […]
Super-Stardom in Music
This blog really nails it. I really like the part about the gold filter. Here is #6 on how to make it really big in the music world: 6. Taste: Taste is all-important. Three tenors are better than one. Ten tenors are better than three. And if you’re Irish, better yet – you’ll […]
Sacred vs. Secular
The Recovering Choir Director brings us this distinction between sacred and secular: Can you tell the difference?? from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
What is better – under rehearsed or over prepared?
Chris Rowbury deals with the positives and negatives of both approaches, under-rehearsed and over-prepared. Here’s a bit: if you worry away at something too much, your intellect gets in the way and stops you from doing it well. Rather like the amateur golfer who is asked to analyse their swing. As soon as […]