Beyond Appreciation: Building Family Music Literacy at Home If you, like me, are on a homeschooling adventure, you have probably encountered music appreciation elements in various curricula. These tend to include music from the Western classical tradition, listening… Read More

Music Lessons? 5 Tips to Get You Started With the start of a new school year comes the chance for our children to try a host of other new things. At the top of my list? Music! Whether… Read More

Your instrument is…your entire body! A singer’s instrument is the entire body. Even how your toes point can ultimately affect what you sound like! It’s important to know how it all works together, and how to keep the… Read More

I know I’m not the only one who has been avoiding the news.  It seems a tide of darkness threatens from almost every story.  What can we possibly do? Well, Mara Smith, Margaret Taylor and I are lucky… Read More

In a recent survey of community choir leaders across America, they listed “artistic excellence” as what they thought most attracted families to their choirs.  A second survey polling families already involved in community choirs asked the same question.  … Read More

  I am like you: sometimes I dread work.  “Ahhh,” I sigh, like an overstuffed cat, “Can’t I just sit here and eat bon-bons by the fire a little longer?  Do I have to go to work?” Except…. Read More

Blog? What blog?  Last season we were so busy doing, there was little time to record it!  Everything was positively magical, and I’d be hard pressed to rate them.  So, since each is a winner, I’m giving them… Read More

Hits and Highlights: DC/Gettysburg Choir Tour 2013 It was our singers’ idea.  We had been told that unsanctioned singing was considered a form of protest at the memorials, and had thusly restrained ourselves during a day of sight… Read More