Home Comfort Advisor is a new interactive work for choir, inspired by the launch of Quigital’s (imaginary) smarthome product line. Want to hear a choir sing a machine learning-generated smarthome instruction manual? Solo and mute sections to create personalized recordings? Or just watch beautiful product renders with relaxing new choral music? Home Comfort Advisor is […]
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Melodia Women’s Choir – To Dream a World Virtual Concert May 22 & 23
Melodia Women’s Choir, Cynthia Powell Artistic Director, presents To Dream a World, a free virtual program. To Dream a World provides a refreshing musical response to the social justice issues that have come forward in the past year, as well as Melodia’s year on pause. Join us on Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon for a […]
Don’t Ask Your Choirs to Sing Louder and The Art of Community
Spoiler- Don’t Ask Them To Sing Louder One of the most common questions I get from choir teachers is “How do I get my kids to sing louder?! I beg and I plead, but they just don’t make any noise.” The first mistake you made was the begging and pleading. The second mistake was asking […]
One from the Folder: Repertoire Thoughts for Women’s/Treble Choir
What Comes Next? Repertoire considerations in the return to “normal” / Vidalita, arr. Diana V. Sáez /
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Student Perspectives on Choir in a Pandemic with Highland High Choir and Steve Hickman
The Next Installment of the Student Perspectives Series In this episode, I “Zoomed” in to the choral classroom of Steve Hickman at Highland High School in Gilbert, AZ. I had the privilege of speaking with Steve and his students in the Advanced Vocal Ensemble about a variety of things related to “making choir happen” over […]
“We Face People.” The Courage of the Choir with Bob Chilcott
An installment of the Oxford Series on the Choralosophy Podcast In choral music, in a different way than in other types of music making, WE ARE the instrument. This creates a unique vulnerability within choral music. If my saxophone is flat, I can fix the ligature, and EXTERNALIZE the problem. With singers, we must still […]