10 Greatest Composers

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At the New York Times, music critic Anthony Tommasini is compiling a list of the ten greatest composers. Here’s my list and my reasons. Who would be in yours and how would you do it?

Weekly Gathering: July 10-17

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There were lots of good articles this past week! Perhaps there was some built up energy from the July 4 festivities.

Pianist and scholar Robert Levin speaks at Curtis Commencement on May 16, 2009. If you click on nothing here, you must listen to this if you are a classical musician. It

Weekly Gathering

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Sometimes the posts listed here will be from non-music sources, and I think that’s just fine since we as singers need to develop all of ourselves to improve.

The Healthy and Fit Algorithm

from Zen Habits is a good reminder about the little steps it takes to remain healthy.

Prospective, Upcoming,

Weekly Gathering

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The Weekly Gathering (named after a singing concept taught to me by my current teacher) will feature some of the better singing and music articles I’ve found around the web in the previous week.

From Classical Singer Magazine: The Legacy of Richard Miller

NPR’s Report on Better Breathing: Baby Steps to Better

Medical Myths

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I may pick up this book. The Well Blog on the New York Times just wrote a piece on Don’t Swallow Your Gum! Myths, Half-Truths and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health. The article itself is pretty funny, and it exposes some truths that we singers tend to hold as self