Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

How we love being up on the stage! It is a dream we all share. Or, so we sing in Regards to Broadway. For some of us, it's more of a n...

Hello Everyone! Catchy title, isn't it? I'm talking about music, though, not about my attractiveness, my magnetism, my allure. C...

Hello Everyone! We're almost done! We've got the next 3 weeks to finish learning (a very small amount) and to polish up all our ...

I stole these from  this site-click here. Glossary of music terms Accent:  An unusual manner of pronunciation, e.g. "Y'all sang th...

Sorry about the mix up with the CD's. Here's what we have on the discs: Soprano CD 1 Chorus of the HS ...

Ok, now I've posted way too many of the theme songs from our medley, but they're all out of order and there are a few missing, so I ...

Oooh. It was her left ear here!

We did it! We talked about piano, p , and forte, f . We looked at our music and saw pp for pianissimo and ff for fortissimo, and we ...

Look how many singers there are, and they manage to sing quietly. We're going to work on dynamics on Monday. We've got to get bett...

I don't want to give too much away on this public site, but I've posted a few of the songs in our TV theme medley since not everyone...

Our words to this are very different, but the melody is the same. This will help.

Ok, this one I didn't know.

I couldn't believe that there were people who didn't know this one! Loved this show!

Hello Everyone! This week, I only introduced the topic of counting, and even here I'll just begin to show what's involved. As usu...

This video is pretty cool. There's the big visual representation and then they show you how it looks in music notation. It gets prett...

Hello Everyone! Here's a little behind-the-scenes look at the work of a choir.  The picture above is of a table in the basement of ou...

Hello Eveyone! Today's lesson at choir was on bar lines and repeats.  We started off looking at single and double bar lines and th...

Part of this song is from St. Patrick's Breastplate, a hymn 700 years old. I took that part and jazzed it up, added a rap (also f...

Did you know that there was an annual Gospel Music conference in Toronto? Did you know that there's a Juno Award for Gospel Music? The...

Hi there! You know how I noticed that so many of us choristers like to bake? I noticed another thing about the people in the choir, an...

This is all you get for a review this week because I covered rests in my post from last week. To review last week's lesson click here...

Not as funny as Bugs Bunny, but really cute. I love hearing how much English is in the German, "volume control" for example, and ...

            Here's a chart of note values to help you remember what we learned in Heather's music reading lesson before choir this...

Hi Everyone! Is there a connection between baking and singing?  It seems to me there must be. So many of us in the choir enjoy baking ...

Hi Everyone! I'm really lucky being the conductor. Since I do the talking, people come and talk to me. Whenever we go out performing, ...