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It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week. Learning to swim in the seas of sound is […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week.   When we carry our cell phones and CD […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week. An Associated Press in today’s newspaper cites a scientific […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week.   Use you own most natural, expressive voice. Sing […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week. I am convinced that voices and instruments sound at […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week. In today’s reflection, Alice writes about her experiences developing her […]

It’s Alice Parker Week: In addition to being a living legend as a composer and arranger, Alice is a beautifully polished author. Her writings exhibit the same clarity and parsimony of her music. I’ve selected some quotes from her books as meditations for this week. Our tape decks and CD players repeat the same […]

I’m in love with this newer song from The Real Group. My first time was hearing it this winter when they toured the U.S., and since I’ve pulled it up on YouTube and Spotify many times. (There are plenty of musical highlights, but listen for the great duet between alto & […]

In the heat of the moment, I often turn to common metaphors. But this often leaves me using sports analogies that don’t really fit my personality. So I’m taking time to intentionally learn some musical substitutes to those expressions. You might enjoy them, too: Made it to the one yard line : Made […]

It’s easy to find good band music for fireworks. Sousa comes to mind, and any number of others. Orchestral music for fireworks isn’t hard, either: Tchaikovsky tops the list, certainly, but there are plenty of options. It’s harder to find choral fireworks. Ours is a subtle art. Even the most energized, excited, […]