I want to celebrate the Spring Equinox singing seasonal songs in circle, sharing with others, meditating and attuning my mind to new beginnings, enjoying the feeling of longer days and the equilibrium between day and night and singing to it, either in nature or in an appropriately decorated space. And meditate at the end. One READ MORE
Category: Thoughts
Ancestral reason for not shutting up anyone
1.8 million years ago, the homo Ergaster started to walk in two legs as us, and that posture gave our ancestors the possibility of a bigger brain and a lower position of the larynx, that favoured musical and linguistically ability. Singing is as old as communication, as old as the origin of speaking is, and READ MORE
BE YOUR OWN KIND OF LEADER
Actually, the tittle says it all so I won’t need to extend myself too much this time. What I want to mean is that we all, as musicians, as choir leaders or directors, want to do our best, to know more, to get better ideas, to produce more engaging rehearsals. Great. What perhaps is not READ MORE
INTO THE SMALL — CONTRIBUTING TO MAKING A STRONG COMMUNITY
When you already belong to a community, have you ever thought that perhaps you know everyone you need to know and there is no need to know more people? Or you believe you need to meet many more people in order to have access to either fun activities, network more, have more friends or access READ MORE
Silence vs talking in the Inclusive Choir
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1498), Florentine philosopher wrote a wonderful sentence: “Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence”. What a wonderful statement. Shall we take it to the choir? Undoubtedly silence is in many ways a pre condition for music making. In silence we concentrate, in silence we can really listen… so that we realize READ MORE
Are you in touch?
There is something that struck me since I have been conducting choirs here in UK. That is the fact that some people gave me, among other kinds of positive and most interesting feedback, comments about “surprising” and “unusual” pedagogy. They were referring to touch. I remember that around when I was first starting my voice READ MORE