MusicScribe BLOG

I love church choral music, but it’s rare that I can find an arrangement that is both unique and manageable for my moderately skilled adult choir of volunteer singers. I subscribe to choral clubs from three different publishers. Whenever I get a new pack, I’ve found I can adequately consider and discard a hour’s worth [...]

On a couple of message boards, some people are reacting the news that Phillip Hughes joined the Harvesters by asking what happened to “spending more time at home.” I might agree with this sort of reaction in some cases, but I don’t get it with Hughes leaving the Kingsmen to join the Harvesters. Do some [...]

A company is selling rubber wrist bands promoting the avoidance of handshaking. Their rationale is to cut the spread of the flu. You can buy them in packs of 10, 100 or 1000. SOURCE This is yet another example of how we have become a nation of wimps. “But the flu KILLS people…” So do [...]

The IMAX in Louisville at the Cinema De Lux is a ripoff. The screen isn’t much bigger than a regular movie screen. There are digital artifacts that show up randomly in the middle of the screen every five or ten seconds…then they go away for a few minutes. It’s very distracting. Don’t waste your money. [...]

…or does anyone else think the term “blogosphere” should have run its course and been forgotten by now? Sorry, I don’t know why I despise that term so much. (I refuse to refer to it as a word.) Initially, the phrase “web log” was contracted down to simply “blog,” which is handy to reference the [...]

Yahoo! is kicking their music customers to the curb. They sold music with DRM (digital rights management), then shut down their store. In order for these files to play when moved from one device to another or copied from one computer to another, the files have to “phone home” to Yahoo’s server. TOO BAD…Yahoo! has [...]

Internet companies are the worst when it comes to making promises and failing to deliver. Take a gander at this: TEST_DATE,DOWNLOAD_SPEED,UPLOAD_SPEED,LATENCY,SERVER_NAME,DISTANCE “12/22/2008 2:25 PM GMT”,”1979 kb/s”,”120 kb/s”,”103 ms”,”Greensboro, NC”,”~ 150 mi” “1/4/2009 2:48 AM GMT”,”599 kb/s”,”106 kb/s”,”110 ms”,”Greensboro, NC”,”~ 150 mi” “1/4/2009 2:49 AM GMT”,”576 kb/s”,”106 kb/s”,”117 ms”,”Greensboro, NC”,”~ 150 mi” “1/4/2009 2:53 AM GMT”,”481 [...]

…is to always get behind the person in line at the video store who requires a solid fifteen minutes of the clerk’s time before they’re willing to pay their late fee and get out of my way.

The December 2008 issue of Singing News features an article titled “The Digital Music Revolution.” I had to laugh at the title, since this technology has been in play for a number of years now. It took about 20 seconds to realize the article is little more than a commercial for Canaan Records. The two [...]

Perhaps some of you can shed some light on an issue that puzzles me at least twice a month when I pay my bills. Why do bill collectors send out window envelopes for you to return your payment??? It makes no sense. Window envelopes are slightly more expensive than the plain variety. You’d think the [...]