Liber Usalis

I want other publishers to take the hint and perfectly place vowels under notes.

Usalis indeed.

It might be disproportionate

But I'm awfully proud of this syllabus.

I wanted to add, "If you convince a tenor to join I will give you an automatic A." But faculty wouldn't let me.

Choral Auditions 2013

It would be odd and inappropriate for me to show evidence, but the main thing I learned running choral auditions is that CCM students take *literally* the most attractive i.d. photos I've ever seen.

No Opera Allowed

Art song and oratorio only, please. We'll make it up to you by doing a complete concert performance of Don Carlo almost immediately.

This November

A Staged Saint John Passion:

Awesome. Except that I ordered a full score. And this is a piano/vocal score. I've been had by amazon.com.

Chamber Singers 2013: Concert 1

September 18, 5pm

Time to break out the colored pencils.

The Best of 2012/2013: Women in Song

It was a good year for women. We collaborated with the Voices of Cincinnati Ensemble (VOCE), welcomed pianist Jiaying Gan, accompanist Jan Corrothers, and soprano Allison Kaufman. We sang Wagner at a historic church downtown. But it didn't get much better than drinking tea and singing English music this June at our Spring Gala: Inspired by Downton Abbey.

Elgar. Vaughan Wlliams. Daisy Bell. Pearls. Fascinators. And tea.

Lots and lots of tea.

The Best of 2012/2013: CCM edition

Year 1 of the MM in Choral Conducting included the following:

Singing:
Faure and Verdi's Requiems
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass
Britten's Spring Symphony
a memorial concert for Dr. Elmer Thomas
my fifth Feast of Carols

Conducting (in performance):
Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare by George Shearing
Now is the Month of Maying by Thomas Morley
Selections from Akhnaten by Philip Glass
Va Pensiero by Giuseppi Verdi
and Set Me as a Seal by Rene Clausen

Workshops with CCM Orchestral Studies and Chorus America,

Coaching by:

Duain Wolfe

Rollo Dilworth

Leon Fleisher

Mark Gibson

and Neil Varon

Being coached by Neil Varon in CCM's orchestral workshop: Conducting Beethoven.

Conducting William Mathias's Learsongs for Duain Wolfe and Rollo Dilworth at the Chorus America workshop: Conducting Children's Choirs.

Acknowledging guest musicians who volunteered to play for my first Chamber Singers concert.

Balcony view of the Feast of Carols dress rehearsal. Look closely and you can see Santa Claus (beard, no suit).

Music Circus poster.

Eurhythmics study guide. Valuable rhythm workout for us all.

Final tally-

Major Works: 4

Recordings: 2

Performances Conducted (at school): 2

Music Circuses Participate in: 1

Needs more music circus.