by Kurt Knecht | Dec 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I haven’t been doing a personal blog in a while, but I thought I would collect the results of week 1 in a single place in case you missed any.O Christmas Tree in the style of Darius MilhaudNext was Andrea Ramsey’s suggestion of The Little Drummer Boy in...
by Kurt Knecht | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have a diverse group of friends which includes some conservatives, some liberals, some moderates, some capitalists, some Marxists, some distributivists, some anarchists, some Christians, some atheists, some Jews, at least one Sikh, a Hari Krishna, and I think there...
by Kurt Knecht | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
I guess there is a thing now where you pick a youtube video and send it to me for my commentary. Timothy Tharaldson sent in this one. This is wrong-headed for several reasons, so it’s hard to know where to start. He says so little in so much time, that it is...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I updated the sacred a cappella choral list I made the other day to include the music of Frank LaRocca. I wanted to do a separate post about it because I’m so excited to have him onboard at MusicSpoke. I seriously love his music. It’s the kind...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
One of our British MusicSpoke composers, Matthew Cann, asked for a list of the a cappella sacred choral music we now have available on MusicSpoke.It’s wonderful just to use the site to listen to some of this fabulous music. It’s even better to buy it and...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Some of my composition students are currently in Gretchen Foley’s fiercely graded 18th century counterpoint class. She asked me if I would pull out my final project and give her a copy. I had a little bit of practice time on Spring Break.I took the NPR...
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