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2006 Midwest Clinic Blog Archive

The last few days have been spent enjoying the holidays and recovering from a massive cold/flu thing that’s been running through our home. The Warm-Up The concert, and everything surrounding it, was a lot of fun. We had a healthy,...
Okay. Now I’m nervous. It’s 10:30, the kids are starting to arrive to setup for our warm-up at 11:00. We’ll spend about an hour lightly warming up, as well as singing and talking through some of the stuff before loading...
Monday was great. Our pre-conference performance was everything that I had hoped for and more. I’m guessing we had about 700 people there. It was an amazing audience…extremely supportive and energetic. It was a very strong performance, which really helped...
As we started this whole process, I remember a ton of people telling me how fast the four months would go. In spite of the fact that I believed them, I’m still stunned by how they have just flown by....
Well it took us almost a month longer than we wanted but the program for our concert finally went to the printer yesterday. What a relief! I was surprised by how much weight felt lifted of my shoulders when it...
Just a quick post to share some media attention we’ve been receiving. There’s an article in today’s Skokie Review about our performance next week. That link may die in a week, but it’ll be updated on our in the press...
Everything in the McCracken world is going quite well. I wish I had more time to write the last few weeks. When I started this post, the countdown to our performance was 42 days…now it’s 34 days! It’s been really...
We had a terrific clinic with Sam Hazo this morning. We hadn’t really looked at Our Kingsland Spring since we performed it a few weeks ago, but the kids were fantastic, worked really hard, and Mr. Hazo was really able...
On Ancient Dialogue’s path to Chicago by Patrick J. Burns A few years ago, I was doing some research on the net in the computer lab of Montclair State University’s Department of Music, where I teach. I was looking for...
What a relief! We received word that the program we submitted for our Midwest performance was approved this morning. The programs of all the performing groups won’t be posted by the Midwest Office until late October, but it’s now officially...