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MUSICAL MUSINGS: Four Lessons About Silence, From Grad School

By Scott Rieker Choir Director, Emerson Choir scott@scottrieker.com It’s a privilege to be attending a graduate program where every class presents something valuable to learn. Often, those lessons are curricular, but sometimes they also generalize to larger realities. With that in mind, I offer these four lessons that I’ve learned recently.   Lesson One In … Continue reading MUSICAL MUSINGS: Four Lessons About Silence, From Grad School

MUSICAL MUSINGS: Sum Of Its Parts > Weakest Link

By Scott Rieker Director, Emerson Choir scott@scottrieker.com  402-202-8435 Aristotle said that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Paul of Tarsus expanded upon that, explaining that all those parts are interconnected, interdependent, and equally essential for the success of the whole. Then, some “motivational speaker” concocted the aphorism, “a chain is only … Continue reading MUSICAL MUSINGS: Sum Of Its Parts > Weakest Link