| Community Forum Post: communities | James D. Feiszli | March 22, 2012 |
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Jack writes:
I believe singers could be served better by ChoralNet especially if the ACDA membership actually starts using the site. We are going to miss an opportunity if we do not make communities a better social networking tool. Most people simply will not use communitie unles... |
| Community Forum Post: News - Blog - Caffeine redux | James D. Feiszli | March 21, 2012 |
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Ok folks (drumroll),
After reviewing the input, dialoguing, and cogitating on the matter for a while, here is what I propose for the content areas of the ChoralNet home page. As I have spoken to people across the spectrum of the choral world - heavily invested ChoralNet users, occasional ... |
| ChoralBlog: Fantastic opportunity for young male singers | James D. Feiszli | March 11, 2012 |
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Attending the Southwestern ACDA division conference last week, I learned of a need and an opportunity for young men that have sung in a national or divisional ACDA honor choir over the past two years, or were selected to sing at the 2011 ACDA National Conference.
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| Community Forum Post: marching orders | James D. Feiszli | March 4, 2012 |
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We have an assignment! Or, rather, a series of assignments.
By now, you should have received your invitation to the national leadership conference this summer. Please advise me immediately if that timeframe does not work for you. Joshua Oppenheim already has (his work at the SWACDA conf... |
| Community Forum Post: marching orders | James D. Feiszli | March 4, 2012 |
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We have several unfinished agenda items we need to address:
1) There is yet a vague, confusing differentiation between all the various frontpage boxes on ChoralNet. I want to clean this up and will do so with or without your input before July. As I look at ChoralNet I p... |
| Community Forum Post: First Cuban choral conductor has arrived | James D. Feiszli | February 11, 2012 |
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Carmen Collado López, director of the Havana Polyphonic Choir, is now in New York City; hosted by Michael Kerschner in preparation for the Eastern Division conference. Congratulations to T.J. Harper and all the eastern division folks for their work on this and kudos to Harmony International and... |
| Comment: Re: Sent from where? | James D. Feiszli | February 3, 2012 |
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I know who sent that message!!
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| Community Forum Post: The Cubans are coming! | James D. Feiszli | February 2, 2012 |
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We received word last night that Alina Oracca, who was ot come to North Central, had received her visa. Unfortunately, North Central had already had to pull the plug on her visit because of the uncertainty. Kudos to David Puderbaugh, who worked his tail off (as you all have) to make arrangemen... |
| Community Forum Post: Final News Policy? | James D. Feiszli | January 23, 2012 |
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I have re-read the thread of our discussion on the news policy and have formulated the following policy (comments welcome):
1. News items should be of interest to a wide audience.
2. News items should be about choirs. choral musicians, or choral music.
3. News items shoul... |
| Comment: Re: Cuban choral composers sheet music | James D. Feiszli | January 16, 2012 |
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Lucky for you the ACDA International Choral Exchange Program is right on target to help you investigate and obtain Cuban music. We are bringing renowned Cuban conductors to each of the seven division conferences (including Digna Guerra, director of the National Choir to southwestern) this spri... |
| Community Forum Post: Venting .... | James D. Feiszli | January 6, 2012 |
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I noticed there were 19 unapproved messages pending, so I went in and starting approving things (hoping I wouldn't screw something up). In doing so, stumbled across Julia Laylander's discussion about starting a community for dialogue between choral conductors and composers. Leaving aside for t... |
| Comment: Re: Would A New "Conductors/Composers Dialogues" Community Be Useful? | James D. Feiszli | January 6, 2012 |
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John is not quite accurate in stating:
ChoralTalk (which was already fragmented into 3 separate lists from its inception),
Choralist was the first list for choral music on the Internet, founded by me and Walter Collins in 1993 and modelled, in fact, after AMSlist (which is perhaps wh... |
| Community Forum Post: News Policy | James D. Feiszli | January 4, 2012 |
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Following are some thoughts on Choral News - all comments welcome.
1. News items have a high visibility on our front page, and thus it is in our interest to make sure published News items are of interest to a wide audience and aren't abused for self-promotion.
a. Articles whic... |
| Community Forum Post: Need to set some policies | James D. Feiszli | January 4, 2012 |
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Folks,
Time for some policy-setting - which is the main focus of this group. Officially this body is advisory to me, the god of ChoralNet but, as many of you know from past history, I am usually reluctant to assume I am all-knowing. So I'd like some opinions and maybe a vote or two on s... |
| Community Forum Post: Update on Cuban Summit | James D. Feiszli | January 4, 2012 |
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Things are progressing (slowly) in regards to the Cuban summit. I have just uploaded a revised schedule for the Summit in May onto the main community page (http://choralnet.org/view/280632). We are still actively seeking choirs to represent ACDA in this once-in-a-lifetime event. With the chang... |
| Community Forum Post: check out your info | James D. Feiszli | January 1, 2011 |
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Folks, I'm updating the "About ChoralNet" pages and created a moderator page. Please check it out for accuracy:
http://www.choralnet.org/view/303944
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| Community Forum Post: ChoralNet Committee page | James D. Feiszli | January 1, 2011 |
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Folks, I created a page for the "About ChoralNet" section that lists the ChoralNet Committee with photos and bios. Please visit it and tell me if you want something changed. Jeff, I need a head shot for you. Here's the URL:
http://www.choralnet.org/303947
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| About page: ChoralNet Moderators | James D. Feiszli | January 1, 2011 |
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This dedicated group of volunteers is responsible for establishing the policies for posting to ChoralNet forums and monitoring submissions to those forums and announcement boards. They maintain constant contact with each other to maintain consistency among themselves and serve faithfully to... |
| Community Forum Post: Cuban musicians coming in 2012 | James D. Feiszli | December 16, 2011 |
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I realize you've all been on pins and needles hoping that your hard work is not in vain. No worries. I just got off a conference call with Tim Sharp, Brad Matheson (Harmony International), and William Martinez, an attorney specializing in Cuban-US visas and travel. The lights are still green... |
| Blog post: Musica Choral Music Databank Fund Drive | James D. Feiszli | December 9, 2011 |
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In 1991 I spent a week in Belgium working with a small group of choral people from Belgium, France, Germany, England, USA, the Philippines, and Slovenia to enlarge the holdings of a small choral music databank sponsored by the International Federation for Choral Music called Musica. Some of tha... |
| Comment: Re: Get rid of the conductor for real musical excellence | James D. Feiszli | December 8, 2011 |
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I'm always amused by choral directors who conduct small ensembles of less than 12 singers. If you want to develop musicians, teach them to listen and watch each other.
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| Community Forum Post: home page customization | James D. Feiszli | December 7, 2011 |
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Are there features on the ChoralNet home page that should be considered non-negotiable? For instance, I just tried to move the picture. No dice. Should I be be forced to see the photo (as cute as they are) of the choir de jour? Or shou;d we allow our users complete customization over their hom... |
| Community Forum Post: archived chat | James D. Feiszli | December 7, 2011 |
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I really like the new features. I was not around when Allen asked if anyone was online, but was able to see that he did. How? By virtue of there being a line in "My subscriptions" mentioning the archived chat.
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| Community Forum Post: Another change to the SDACDA ChoralNet community | James D. Feiszli | December 5, 2011 |
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This forum is now unmoderated .. meaning that anything you post immediately gets sent to the community rather than waiting to be approved by an editor.
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| Community Forum Post: Check it out! | James D. Feiszli | December 5, 2011 |
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Now we can use the SDACDA ChoralNet community for real-time meetings (saving time and travel money) by using the chat feature.
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| Community Forum Post: ICB Journal link | James D. Feiszli | November 30, 2011 |
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Folks,
I received this message today from Andrea Angelini at IFCM:
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Dear James,
we have just officially launched the ICB online that is a complimentary service of the ICB, the International Choral Bulletin.
If would great if a link to the IFCM Magazine could find ... |
| Community Forum Post: SDSMT Holiday Concert | James D. Feiszli | November 30, 2011 |
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If any of my ACDA colleagues are thinking of attending one of the two SDSMT choral concerts this weekend at the cathedral and wish to get a decent seat, let me know, and I'll get you a VIP pass for seats near the front.
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| Concert: SDSMT Holiday Concert | James D. Feiszli | November 29, 2011 |
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The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Concert Choir and Master Chorale return to the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral to present two evenings of spectacular vocal music on Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and 4th. Featuring contemporary composers Michael McGlynn (of Anuna and R... |
| Community Forum Post: ACDA phone app | James D. Feiszli | November 28, 2011 |
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ACDA is developing a phone app as per Tim Sharp's blog (http://choralnet.org/view/300781). He has asked me to get some input from the ChoralNet crowd as to what ChoralNet features would be most desirable as part of the ACDA phone app (android and i-phone) - keepig in mind that ChoralNet is only ... |
| PDF Document: Outcomes from November 11, 2011 meeting | James D. Feiszli | November 13, 2011 |
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| Community Forum Post: Creating and editing community webpages | James D. Feiszli | November 12, 2011 |
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In the new community format (under "testing") how does one create new community pages? I spent all that time writing up help pages
http://choralnet.org/view/298810
and yet I find myself not being able to do it in the new system. Help!
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| PDF Document: Community Description and Definition | James D. Feiszli | November 11, 2011 |
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| Community Forum Post: Prices drop for Cuba!! | James D. Feiszli | November 10, 2011 |
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I have just received this information from Harmony International, ACDA's agents for the 2012 U.S./Cuba Symposium:
... we were able to work with our Cuban ground personnel to bring the student cost down to $1990 per person—this is a reduction of $300. The updated packet can be found... |
| Community Forum Post: Choral Blog vs.Choral Buzz | James D. Feiszli | November 9, 2011 |
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When horalBuzz was implemented, Allen worried that it's purpose was not clear in regard to how it was differentiated from ChoralBlog. I thought I had that handled at one point, as in the following message on 23 September to Scott, Tim, Allen, Martin, and Phillip:
Both Tim and Scott... |
| Community Forum Post: When do new features get implemented? | James D. Feiszli | November 9, 2011 |
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When will the new features on "testing" be implemented on the main site?
Have you all checked out the differences?
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| Community Forum Post: Role of the ChoralNet Committee | James D. Feiszli | November 8, 2011 |
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This is rather cart behind horse, but it's been that kind of fall.
I think I'm finally beginning to realize I have too much on my plate and therefore this committee exists. When Tim Sharp asked me to assume the Technology Committee chair we both knew that it w... |
| Comment: Re: NCCO 2011: First impressions | James D. Feiszli | November 4, 2011 |
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And bravo to you, Philip, for reporting on this important conference. I am sorry that I am not there to share it with you (especially since I am so familiar with Fort Collins). As a member of NCCO and ACDA, I can only express gratitude for the amount of professional networking available to all of ... |
| Community Forum Post: Two business items | James D. Feiszli | November 4, 2011 |
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Hey, welcome to the community.
I've been pretty swamped with the paying gig lately and so this is my first forum message. You should all be receiving it - except for Ryan, who has yet to join the community. I have a request and a question:
1) ChoralNet has a number of new feature... |
| Help page: Creating and editing community webpages | James D. Feiszli | October 27, 2011 |
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Community pages allow you to expand your community into a website.
To create the first comunity page, choose Pages from the More... menu on the community navigation bar. From the empty Pages listing, click on New Page, enter its title and content, and click Submit. You... |
| Help page: Community Libraries | James D. Feiszli | October 27, 2011 |
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A community library is a place to store files germane to the community. Only the community editor may upload or delete library contents, but anyone can see them. Many types of file formats are supported: PDF, image files, MIDI, MP3, MSWord, and other formats. Please respect copyright law. ChoralN... |
| Help page: Community Forums | James D. Feiszli | October 27, 2011 |
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Community forums are no longer moderated, except for submissions by newly-created users, as a guard against spammers. If there are messages pending moderation, a flashing Moderate tab will appear in the tab bar at the top of an editor's ChoralNet screen. Choose Community messages fro... |
| PDF Document: ChoralNet Communities slideshow | James D. Feiszli | October 26, 2011 |
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| Community: ACDA Technology Committee | James D. Feiszli | October 23, 2011 |
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This is a private community for the business of the national ACDA technology committee
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| Comment: Re: Bad Showchoir | James D. Feiszli | October 23, 2011 |
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It's Anuna!
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| Comment: Re: Bad Showchoir | James D. Feiszli | October 23, 2011 |
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Anuna outtakes!!! Hilarious.
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| Community: ChoralNet Committee | James D. Feiszli | October 16, 2011 |
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A private community for the members of the governing body of ChoralNet
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| Community Forum Post: Cuba Summit registration | James D. Feiszli | October 13, 2011 |
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John Rommereim alerted me to the fact that the registration webpage for the U.S. - Cuba Summit in May had vanished from cyberspace. No worries, Harmony International plans to have a revised and finalized online process for registration for the Cuba Summit up and running by Tuesday next week. W... |
| Community Forum Post: Graduate credit for Cuba Summit | James D. Feiszli | October 6, 2011 |
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ACDA has developed a program whereby members can receive graduate credit for ACDA events. This includes the Cuba - U.S. Summit.
The American Choral Directors Association is pleased to announce that is will now offer graduate credits and continuing education units (CEUs) at ALL ACDA Conf... |
| Community Forum Post: Cuban visitors | James D. Feiszli | October 5, 2011 |
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Believe it or not, I am not just sitting here on my thumbs waiting. I am sending a message to the Cubans about every other day asking about who is coming to what division. Brad Matheson of Harmony International, the agency working on the Cuba summit for us, is pulling every string he can to ge... |
| Community Forum Post: Cuban Conductors coming to 2012 conferences | James D. Feiszli | October 5, 2011 |
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Today I received confirmation from Cuba of the Cuban choral conductors that will visit the ACDA division conferences. ACDA's partner in the Cuban Summit, Harmony International, is already working on the paperwork to bring them here. We are pleased to host the following persons at our division ... |
