When Swarthmore College in Philadelphia began advertising itself as the “Quaker Matchbox”—that is, a great place to find your future mate—Steve Barsky got an idea. The Mendelssohn Club, the symphonic...

Board committees are often where much of the real work of the board gets done—but they are also often a source of frustration. They may not function effectively, or if they do, it may be at the cost...

Some 15 years ago, Marilyn Horne, coming up on her 60th birthday, sat down for a rare moment of quiet reflection. It had been nearly four decades since her debut at age 20 with the Los Angeles Guild...

Get Organized Use an organizational system that acknowledges the hierarchy of scale degrees and the relationships between them. Solfege is an effective system because it gives each pitch an identity...

Singers everywhere know the feeling. You’re next up to audition for your chorus and suddenly it feels like the breath has been sucked right out of your body. And then it gets worse. You’re handed a...

Ask Gregg Smith about the highlights of his 50 years with the group that bears his name and you'll soon hear about Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives and William Schuman, Ned Rorem...

Jen Courtney had pretty much resigned herself to the fact that if she ever got married it would be to someone who knew nothing about singing or the sacred music she loves. "I had this other separate...