December 6-8, 2002 Directors Seminar Postponed

The NEDCDA was recently informed that the site we contracted with for the 2002 Directors Seminar is no longer operating. After unsuccessfully scrambling to find an alternative site for the same date, it was finally decided to postpone the 9th annual seminar until sometime in 2003.

Sadly, this news reached us after the article announcing the seminar was published in the Fall, 2002 issue of the Nor'easter.  Happily, the scheduled faculty, Steve Jamison, Karen Rourke, and Steve Tramack, are all hoping the new date will be one when they are available.

Fall Taping of Directors in Jeopardy

Ernie Johansen has informed the NEDCDA that he will not be able to tape directors from behind the chorus at the Fall chorus contest in Lake Placid. We're hoping to obtain some of Ernie's fantastic equipment that makes this possible. We will need some volunteers to be backstage to operate the video equipment. If you know of someone who is willing to help us with this, please contact Chuck Eaker.

Two NED Directors Win Directors College Scholarships

An Interesting Web Site

Here is the URL for a fascinating web site: http://www.ncvs.org. There is an"Information for Singers" page at: http://www.ncvs.org/singers which has a link to a set of articles by Ingo Titze originally published in "The Journal of Singing". They are short and provocative. Look at the third one in the list: "Choir Warm-ups: How Effective are They?" at: http://www.ncvs.org/singers/choir_wa.pdf  (it's a PDF file so you need to have Adobe Acrobat installed).