In 2009, Chorus America did an “impact study” with the lofty goal of showing the benefits of choral music in the community. You can read the entire thing at https://www.chorusamerica.org/system/files/resources/ImpactStudy09_Report.pdf, but be forewarned…it’s 28 pages of really small type and really large words and bucketloads of charts and graphs and such. Don’t worry, I’m your […]

Nothing to do with singing but perfect for a Friday. Enjoy. The really cool stuff starts right around the 1 minute mark. https://youtu.be/0HzFVGf9Dfg

Back in March, the Blogmeister mentioned the concept of the singer or musician as a small muscle athlete. http://dusty-beam.flywheelsites.com/2015/03/02/windward-notes-athletics-in-the-rehearsal-hall/. But what about the big muscles? We’re hauling big chunks of air in and out of ourselves and those big air bags are attached to our back and our chest and our shoulders and our opu. […]

When he was three, my nephew went to his first NCAA Division I hockey game. When I asked him how it was, his response was, “The man skates real fast and runs right into the fence”. It’s hard to imagine peeling back the layers of the game any further than that, getting down to its […]

Blasting off a concert with “Lord, I Know I’ve Been Changed” (insert booming applause noises here) set me to wondering about the hand-in-hand relationship between the gospel and blues musical styles and how they can so often be intertwined (and how awesome it can be when they are). A little research opened up some interesting […]

The “that’s cool” department and the “that’s silly” department have both asked for a little post-concert space in the blog. Great video from the former and I’ll apologize to the tenors for the latter ahead of time…um…then again, maybe I won’t. They ARE tenors after all. A Honda commercial where all of the sounds are […]

Pretty much anything that uses oxygen does it (sometimes for the worse, but we won’t talk about that): the energy of individuals combines when an experience is shared and that energy is compounded and boosts the individual’s energy which raises the energy level further. Lather, rinse and repeat until the entire mob is jacked up […]

(Blogmeister note: this is the second of the pre-concert posts, info nugget #2 as it were. Sing thee well!) “Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” – Robert H. Schuller There are two answers to the question, “What’s happening on Friday?” if it’s posed to a member of the Windward Choral Society: “We have […]