Shamelessly stolen from around the web and gently modified to use here, I give you: Murphy’s Laws for Susie Duprey: The music stand you get will wobble. Singers late for rehearsal are always those who sit in the first row. The longer the rests, the less likely a section will enter after them. At least […]
Famous things that happened over the years on August 6th: Denton True “Cy” Young pitched and won his 1st major league baseball game. The first case of motion sickness in space was reported (I bet that got messy). Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities. “Oh! Calcutta!” (which was […]
Not specific to the Joy of Music…and All That Jazz but more about the environment that has helped to nurture and grow the Windward Choral Society into the group of singers who can make such a fundraising event happen. A non-auditioned community chorus is a rare thing and the support of the community is the blood […]
Back when I was a young Blogmeister I got to see a live performance of the musical “Camelot”. This was the reprisal of the show where Robert Goulet, Lancelot in the movie, was now playing the part of King Arthur as part of a touring show. (News flash: Bob could really, really sing.) It’s a […]
Versions of this have been bouncing around the interweb for quite some time; I’ve taken the liberty of massaging it a little. Enjoy. The following rules are intended as a guide to the development of habits which will promote the proper type of relationship between singers in the tenor section and the conductor. Complain about […]
The Blogmeister has a job (stop laughing, I really do) that demands he roll out of bed somewhere around 5:30 am each morning. Which means that, if he wants 7-8 hours of sleep, nighty-night needs to happen between 9:30 and 10:30. Most evenings this is no big deal. I have, after all, been up since […]
When the Blogmeister family moved into their current house one of the first things I did was to build a couple of sturdy workbenches in the garage. Mr. and Mrs. Blogmeister both have hobbies that keep them busy when time allows (Mrs. Blogmeister is the talented and creative one; I’m just a reasonable talentless tinkerer). […]
A line that always cracks me up… “If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?” You can also apply it the Windward Choral Society, right? “If a choir sings in a hall and there is no audience, is it still beautiful?” You bet it […]
I was poking around on the interweb looking for additional information pertaining to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I have an old Schirmer Scores collection of all of his chorales that has been a great reference for any tinkering I’ve done with arranging harmonies and making things sound right. When it comes to the […]
It’s one of the oldest bad jokes around… A tourist walking down 5th Avenue in New York sees a man carrying a violin case and, as they near each other on the sidewalk asks, “Excuse me but how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” Without breaking stride or the direction of his gaze the musician […]