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  • Episode 310: Drawing Your Line in the Sand on AI in the Classroom with Dale Duncan

    Episode 310: Drawing Your Line in the Sand on AI in the Classroom with Dale Duncan
    Oct 16 2026
    What happens when a choir director with thirty years in the classroom builds an AI app trained on his experience? His own teachers’ Facebook group turns on him for it. Does he deserve it? Every time I open Facebook lately, some music teacher has a brand-new AI app to sell me. Dale Duncan is no …

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  • Episode 309: Cross-Training For Singers with Dr. Nicholas Perna

    Episode 309: Cross-Training For Singers with Dr. Nicholas Perna
    Oct 9 2026
    A singer trained in only one style is leaving half their instrument unbuilt. We hear a bright, forward, Broadway sound walk into the rehearsal room and reach for the same correction every time. But what if that instinct is the problem? She belts in musical practice after school and sings Palestrina on Sunday morning, and …

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  • Episode 308: It’s Just Intonation After All with Ross W. Duffin

    Episode 308: It’s Just Intonation After All with Ross W. Duffin
    Oct 2 2026
    What if the piano — the instrument sitting in every choir room in America — is quietly teaching your singers to sing out of tune? I rehearse a cappella. From the first day of rehearsal to the final product, no piano. I’ve been saying it for years, and I catch heat for it. So when …

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  • Episode 307: Education is Individual. Ensembles are not

    Episode 307: Education is Individual. Ensembles are not
    Sep 26 2026
    Real music literacy isn’t about robotic, first-time perfection. Here is how to create individualized leveled readers that meet every singer right where they are. If you think back to elementary school, or when your own kids were young, you probably remember them bringing home leveled reading books tailored to their specific vocabulary, phonics stage, and …

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  • Episode 306: Why “What Works for Me?” is the Wrong Question for Teachers

    Episode 306: Why “What Works for Me?” is the Wrong Question for Teachers
    Sep 19 2026
    ACTUAL student-centered education occurs when we design our classes, pedagogies and assessments around individual student skill attainment. The calculation of “what works” cannot simply boil down to teacher preference. One of the most common things you hear at music education conferences is the phrase: “I just do what works for me.” It sounds harmless, even …

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  • Episode 305: An Invitation to Connection with Jennifer Lucy Cook

    Episode 305: An Invitation to Connection with Jennifer Lucy Cook
    Sep 11 2026
    What happens when a choral piece becomes so wildly popular that choir directors start refusing to program it? We like to tell ourselves that our repertoire choices are based on objective artistic standards… …but all too often, artists fall into a familiar trap: the moment a piece captures the public imagination or goes viral on …

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  • Episode 304: You Are the Thing That Teaches with James Jordan

    Episode 304: You Are the Thing That Teaches with James Jordan
    Sep 4 2026
    What if we’ve been approaching Music Ed and Conducting backwards? Dr. Jordan suggests, that “the first course in music ed shouldn’t be methods. It should be a semester of learning who you are—because that’s what actually reaches students.” Why is it that two conductors can give the exact same technical pattern to the same choir, …

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  • Episode 302: Revisiting the Vibrato Question

    Episode 302: Revisiting the Vibrato Question
    Aug 23 2026
    Back in episode 146, Dr. Jennaya Robison and I had a great discussion about the tension (pun intended) around vibrato vs. non vibrato aesthetics, physiology and acoustics in choral music. Recently, we posted a clip from that show and it blew up. Let’s just say, the algorithm anointed it with oil and now its cup …

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