I had the opportunity to present a technology session at the Southern ACDA Conference at a roundtable. Afterwards, Pat Boozer talked to me about her creations for choral music educators: StaffWriter and SingASign. Read about them here: StaffWriter is a basic music font for making tests, activity pages, games, music dictionaries, PPT […]
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Fantastic opportunity for young male singers
Attending the Southwestern ACDA division conference last week, I learned of a need and an opportunity for young men that have sung in a national or divisional ACDA honor choir over the past two years, or were selected to sing at the 2011 ACDA National Conference. Simon Carrington, one of the original King Singers, […]
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: How we inspired Mandela
By Jessica Ellis DURBAN, S AFRICA — With their soulful voices and traditional Zulu dance moves, South African acappella singing sensation Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been blending vocal harmonies to take audiences on a musical journey for nearly half a century. The legendary male choral group has sold millions of albums worldwide, collaborated […]
Herbert Howells and Alan Hovhaness – NEW recordings
Gloriae Dei Cantores releases two new SACD Recordings! Herbert Howells This Super Audio CD is an American tribute to one of England’s most renowned 20th century composers, Herbert Howells. It includes some of his most famous works, including the Requiem and Take Him Earth for Cherishing, which was written in memorial of President […]
Orlando choral director named Teacher of the Year for Orange Co
By Leslie Postal ORLANDO, FL — The chorus teacher at Freedom High School knows from personal experience that teachers have the power to save “lost children.” When he was such a child — a badly behaving ninth grader with a distraught single mother — a music teacher took a chance on him by encouraging him musically […]
More about IPAnow!
I blogged about IPAnow! a couple of days ago. The program is a wonderful tool that transcribes texts (Latin, Italian, German, French) into International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols by applying rules utilized by scholarly lyric diction textbooks. Since then, I had the opportunity to have an email exchange with Kelly Turner, the creator of […]