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Beyond the Vocalise: Musicianship-Strengthening Warmup Routines for Choirs
When we teach in an ensemble setting, we are always teaching “togetherness” in some way. And the musical and artistic …
A Creative Space: Prescriptions for Conducting (and Building) Creative Singers
In my hundreds of hours working with senior and middle school choir directors and their choirs, I’ve noticed that conducting …
When words fail
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I …
Context is everything/nothing
There’s a urban-choral myth that the Howells Requiem was written in response to the sudden death of Howells’ nine-year-old son, …
…makes you stronger
As humans, we are very adept at perceiving patterns. It’s one of the things that makes our brains so adept …
What’s the point?
I think we hope to do more than ‘write what we know;’ I think we hope to write what we …
Look for the helpers
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, …
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