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Greetings fellow choral educators! Please feel free to click on the links below to hear some of my latest choral music. Send me an email if you would like some sheet music (great prices)! I’m also accepting four more commissions for the spring semester – first come, first serve (great r... read more
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Reminder that the early-bird booking fee for this workshop applies to all bookings before 1 October 2012 Back by popular demand, the Conduct with Charisma workshop will run again on 24 November 2012. Details of the content and how to book can be found at http://www.helpingyouharmonise.com/charis... read more
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This post first appeared on Helping You Harmonise I was listening recently to a Stuff You Should Know podcast about cults and thought reform, and it made me notice how a number of areas I have been interested in as both scholar and musician interact even more than I had already noticed. The first is m... read more
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[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Does your choir actually have a public following, or are you just kidding yourself? When a choir first starts performing in public, most of the audience will be made up of friends and fami... read more
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This post first appeared on www.HelpingYouHarmonise.com When I was working up to my Grade 1 piano exam aged 8 or so, my piano teacher introduced me to a game of ‘lucky dip’. This involved identifying all the passages in my pieces I was stumbling over, writing each on a piece of paper, and putting t... read more
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[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] As a singing workshop and choir leader I have an incredibly easy life. I can get up when I want to and have no work commitments for five days of the week. So why do I feel so tired? I&rsqu... read more
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This post originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise in August 2009 I’ve been threatening since last winter to write about how the Inner Game ideas can inform rehearsal techniques, and the time has at last arrived. This post will outline some big-picture principles, and three subsequent ... read more
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[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] For those of us who work to school terms, it is now the summer holidays. Unlike us poor folk here in the UK, the summer break is months long in the US ! Whilst we only have six weeks or so, the summer there ... read more
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[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week I wrote about some of the skills needed to be able to sing in harmony. Most of them were focused on singing in a large choir. This week I want to consider those skills that are needed to sing harmo... read more
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To All Choir Directors Who Have Never Commissioned a Choral Piece: ♪ Have you always wanted to commission a special piece for your choir, but never had enough money? ♪ Is there a particular p... read more
