By Aurelio Porfiri and Thomas Caplin, Choral Conductors and Teachers
Among educated people, there are topics that are not treated, because they are very sensitive or they go against the politically correct atmosphere th…Read More →
By Tim Seelig, Choral Conductor and Teacher
Much has been written about the difference between “music for music’s sake” – Perfection and “music as a means to an end” – Connection. In f…Read More →
By Aurelio Porfiri and
Astri Soemantri
In recent decades, phenomenal advances in brain research have revolutionized many fields. Today we speak easily of neuro-economics, neuro-theology, neuro-biolo…Read More →
The Key to Understanding the Renaissance Style
by Steven Grives, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
During the past 40 years, musicologists and…Read More →
By Tim Sharp,
Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association and Conductor of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus
The development of the choral program has always been of interest and c…Read More →
Cyclical and Progressive Structures and Meanings in Im Herbst, Op. 104 #5
Frank Samarotto,
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Brahms’s late setting of Klaus…Read More →
Developing & Sustaining Tonal Excellence in Choirs
Carol Beynon,
Jennifer Beynon-Martinec
and Jakub Martinec
As the title of this paper implies, t…Read More →
by Fulvio Rampi, choral conductor and teacher
The title that I have chosen to give to my piece is the bitter synthesis of post-conciliar ecclesiastical reasoning – it might be more correct to say “the lack of reasoning” – with regar…Read More →
By Luigi Lera, teacher and conductor
We have been asking ourselves for more than twenty years why our choral practice, despite being lively and most dedicated, has not been able to produce some sort of “resurrection” of early polyph…Read More →
By Anna-Maria Hefele, Overtone Singer, Vocal Artiste and Singer
Translated into English by Irene Auerbach, England
“Overtone singing is a vocal technique which filters out of the overtone spectrum of the voice ind…Read More →