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Every year we go through the same motions – planning auditions, making first day announcements, programming music. Here are a few ideas to start your choir’s new year in a higher gear! 1. Commission and program new music. Having music written just for them helps a choir to bond and […]
Some links to keep you reading and listening over the weekend. If You Wouldn’t Do Your Job For Free, Then Quit (Lifehacker) The problem, of course, is that some people think that if you would do your job for free, you should do your job for free. But I wake […]
Last week I attended my first MSVMA Summer Workshop in Lansing, MI. It’s a much smaller event (maybe 150 people) than the last few conventions I’ve attended (Michigan Music Conference, ACDA National or Divisional, the old IAJE Conventions). Plus, there were no performing ensembles, only clinics, discussions, and reading sessions. […]
Here’s the rest of my Top 10 list from ACDA Chicago, still in no particular order. 6. Thrilling Singing Part 2: Gene Puerling back in Chicago. The Singers Unlimited If you don’t know who Gene Puerling is, you’re missing an important piece of 20th century vocal music. As the arranger […]
I’ve had the time to digest my amazing experience in Chicago at my first ACDA National Convention. Here are a few of my impressions and favorite moments. (in no particular order) 1. Thrilling Singing Part 1 Latvian Youth Choir Kamer The first concert I was able to attend was the […]
Tomorrow I’m heading to my first national ACDA Conference. Wait…a choir director conference? How did I get here? A little background. I went to a show choir heavy high school where classical was “the stuff we learn a week before festival.” I spent my college career with Gold Company at […]
I’ve been thinking lately about Lynda Barry’s “The Two Questions.” It’s a short autobiographical comic about creativity, originally published in McSweeney’s Issue #13. She writes about her desire to create and the struggles she constantly goes through, in particular with the two questions her inner censor is constantly asking: “Is […]
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Jeff Cobb‘s session at the Michigan Music Conference about commissioning was excellent, though it would have been nice to see more people there! I believe strongly that it’s important to encourage the creation of new choral music apart from the big publishing companies. That’s where the art is going to […]