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Music Advocacy Done A Little Differently

Recently I have felt the need to do something more at my concerts as far as music advocacy is concerned. I hate to just hit my audience over the head with it as I am not sure how effective that is, so I had an idea for this years Christmas Concert. I interviewed each of my music students (only those who wanted to) and then I put edited them all together into a video that I played on a big screen while parents were coming in before the concert ever started.

The parents really seemed to love seeing their kids via this medium and the kids loved being on the big screen. I did this for both my Junior and Senior High Schools. I think if I did it again I would make the videos shorter and maybe sneak in a few slides with music advocacy stats on them.

High School Video


Junior High School Video


What do you think?




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3 Must Read Books for Choir Directors

Here are 3 books that I have found most useful in helping me become a better Choir Director. I highly recommend them and if you have any suggestions for me I am all ears and ready to learn.

Sing 6-7-8! - Choral

This book has a great way of simplifying things. It allows you to see things from a younger students perspective from someone who has worked for many years with that age group. I have heard it said before that just because you can do does not mean you can teach This book has lots of great tools to help bridge that gap.
The adolescent years can be a challenge for any choir director, but this practical handbook by Roger Emerson provides an engaging and witty approach to working with these young singers. Ideal for experienced educators and those new to the field, this text is full of creative ideas and solid solutions in an easy-to-read question and answer format. The fifty topics include recruiting, the adolescent voice, choral tone, classroom management, budgets, choral balance and blend, sight-reading, repertoire, programming, incorporating pop music into the choral program, working with your administrators and colleagues, parent and community relations, helpful recommended resources and much more!



The book is a comprehensive guide to teaching vocal technique through designing an efficient choral warm-up that gives the choir "tools" to sing and hear better. Among the topics presented are alignment (using Alexander Body Mapping principles), inhalation, exhalation, support, resonance, vowel colors, leaps, range extension, crescendo/decrescendo, martellato, staccato, teaching procedures for diction (plus general diction guidelines), teaching and reinforcing rhythm and consistent tempo, and strategies for teaching intonation. This is a comprehensive guide for choral directors that: helps conductors plan and implement efficient choral warm-ups builds healthy voices within the choral rehearsal provides vocalises that have accompaniments complete with modulations upward and downward categorizes vocalises according to specific vocal objectives



Not too often did I find a college text book that I really liked but here is one exception. This text provides a concise and practical introduction to choral techniques and conducting for potential choral conductors. The author-America's premier choral conductor, mentored by Robert Shaw-brings 43 years of teaching and workshop experience to this text.




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Using Wordle with Regional Auditions

We just had our regional auditions and my students did very well. Today I had the idea to type out all the notes that they received from their auditions. This way I have a digital record for as long as I want and secondly I could put that into wordle.net and see what trends I noticed.


The Result

I like this because it is a fun way for me to look at some of the things we need to work on as a whole. Also, I plan on showing this to my class and asking them what they notice from it.




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Why is Bottesini’s music written in the “wrong octave?”

Check out the Spanish translation of this article here! We recently added Stephen Street‘s Urtext Edition of Bottesini’s Concerto di Bravura to our Sheet Music Store, prompting a common question: Why is Bottesini’s music written down an octave? The issue at hand is that Bottesini wrote all his solo bass music at sounding pitch rather […]




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Pfizer (Australia) BUPIVACAINE HYDROCHLORIDE 0.5% (50mg/10mL) injection BP ampoule (bupivacaine hydrochloride monohydrate)

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DBL HEPARIN SODIUM 5000IU/1mL (porcine mucous) injection BP ampoule (heparin sodium)

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BICILLIN L-A benzathine benzylpenicillin tetrahydrate 1,200,000 Units / 2.3 mL suspension for injection pre-filled syringe with needle (benzathine benzylpenicillin tetrahydrate)

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Briefing by the Mushroom Producer Organisation and Commercial Mushroom Growers UK

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Briefing by the Northern Ireland Mushroom Growers Association

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Serious Adverse Incidents Framework: Department of Health

Room 29, Parliament Buildings



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Business Plan 2024-25: Department of Finance

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Bovine Tuberculosis, Lough Neagh and the Farm Sustainability Transition Payment: Mr Andrew Muir MLA, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

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Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 Establishing a Framework for the Setting of Ecodesign Requirements for Sustainable Products

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Mental Health in the Youth Justice System and Update on Progress against Business Plan: Youth Justice Agency

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Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: Research and Information Service

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Class B Private Hire Vehicles: Inclusive Mobility and Transport Advisory Committee

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Police Service of Northern Ireland and Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024: Department of Justice

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Justice Bill: Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service

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Budget Update and October Monitoring Round: Department of Justice

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Justice Bill: Department of Justice

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Inquiry into Relationships and Sexuality Education: Catholic Schools’ Trustee Service

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Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill: Committee Deliberations on the Clauses

Room 29, Parliament Buildings



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Draft Programme for Government 2024-27: Department of Justice

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Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: Cardiff University School of Medicine

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Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill: Formal Clause-by-clause Consideration

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COM(2022)748 Proposal for a Regulation Amending Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures: Department for the Economy; Department of Health; Department of Justice

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Injury on Duty Consultation: Department of Justice

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Arbitration Bill Legislative Consent Memorandum: Department of Justice

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Potential Financial Implications of the Justice Bill: RaISe

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Plenary, 03 August 2022

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Plenary, 08 August 2024

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Don’t Push Your Luck This St. Patrick’s Day – Designate a Sober Driver

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Cynthia Cavett, Delaware Office of Highway Safety, (302) 744-2743 Kellie Boulware, MDOT MVA, 410-762-5188 Brandy Brubaker, Virginia DMV, 804-367-6834   Joint Effort Targets Impaired Drivers Along US 13 and US 113 in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia   Dover, DE (March 15, 2019) – The Delaware Office of Highway Safety, Maryland Department […]




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California excels at screening babies for main cause of childhood blindness

Vision damage from a complication of premature birth can be halted if it’s caught soon enough — and a California Perinatal Quality Care (CPQCC) and Stanford Medicine-led study shows the state’s screening process is helping close racial gaps.

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Stanford Medicine experts help Nobel winner custom design proteins for COVID-19 therapy

Custom designing proteins — a breakthrough recognized by the latest Nobel Prize in chemistry — could yield treatments that stop the worst of COVID-19 before it begins.

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Old drug, new discovery: Scientists find novel use for ancient malaria remedy 

Stanford Medicine researchers on the hunt for an elusive cardiac fibrosis drug were surprised when a malaria drug with ancient origins emerged as their top candidate.

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Planning Permission May Be Needed to Avail of Farm Business Improvement Scheme, Warns Committee

The Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (AERA) Committee has highlighted that farmers may need to ensure that planning permission is in place or that they have already applied for the necessary permissions to avail of the new Farm Business Improvement Scheme (FSIB) Tier Two.




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PAC to suspend inquiry

The Northern Ireland Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has decided to adjourn today’s public session into the next phase of the Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry in order for all ongoing Departmental investigations to conclude.




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Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme mistakes must never be repeated, says Committee

The Assembly’s Committee for the Economy calls for the clear failures highlighted by the Audit Office report into the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme to be urgently addressed. The highly critical Audit Office report indicated that there could be considerable cost to the taxpayer following serious systematic failings in the Scheme.




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US Senator Tom Carper and Martha....IM8A8035A

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US Senator Tom Carper and his wife Martha at Return Day in Georgetown, Delaware.

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Hermit Thrush.....IM8A7400CR3AT

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Hermit Thrush judging from the pale but complete eyering (in other photos) and spotting that does not go as low as the Wood Thrush.
Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware.




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Winterthur Museum

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Business Architecture (Part 1 of 4)

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, cover the basics and discuss the role of business architecture in a changing market landscape.




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Business Architecture (Part 2 of 4)

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, discuss why billions of IT investment dollars are wasted, and how to stop the bleeding.




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Business Architecture (Part 3 of 4)

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, discuss why the IT and business sides of many organizations can't play nice.




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Business Architecture (Part 4 of 4)

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, discuss how IT architects and business architects can work together to get the ship back on course and keep it there.