It was 2001 and I was a home schooled highschooler of sixteen at Normandale Community College, thanks to Minnesota’s PSEO opportunities. While I had been studying voice and piano for a little while, the choir at NCC was my first experience of choral singing. The sheer mass of sound shattered my perceptions of what was…
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10 Years of Choir
That Sound We Want – The pressure of studio perfection on live performance
Here is an interesting thing. Most music consumers love perfect quality recordings. Consumers and the industry together have developed a preferred “sound” that the public expects to hear when they listen to their i-tunes, CD’s, etc. This “sound” is specific to every musical genre, however many genres have the goal of perfection in mind; no…
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What you Might Hear at “Peace With Us” December Concerts
Our December 2011 concerts are right around the corner – about six hours away for our first one, at a private event in Golden Valley. Tomorow morning is our first public concert, at 10:30 at Cross of Glory Baptist Church in Hopkins, MN; and next week we perform, along with some organists, in our beautiful former home-state…
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Nathan Bird 