Sung in a resonant baritone in what sounded like a 50s/60s recording

Logical

(The public library app)

Also praise be to Libby!

I do know why we hesitated, sequels to beloved children's classics are so rarely good

No it's some random

No idea

Of course

Great stuff

I resist the word "hobby" because it's diminutive. I prefer "calling" or "vocation." Video games are a hobby.

I would kick aural dictation to the curb for starters, and replace it with transcription from recordings.

The NYU undergrads emphatically do not want to be singing opera, that unifies them across race, class, gender, ethnic origin...

Many such cases

It's funny that I am descended exclusively from Europeans and I feel the canon as alien, whereas I'm teaching these Chinese and Korean students who feel completely at home in the canon. What can you do.

I like Robert Fink's framing of the canon as an "ancient alien power source". There is much in there of use, even to the beatmakers. But it's necessary to approach it as alien, not as "our" music. www.jstor.org/stable/3877522

My dislike of the canon softened once I made it out of the tonal theory sequence. I do think there's a way to teach that music to people like me that isn't so soul-crushing. It involves being less dogmatic about 18th century convention, looking at more Renaissance music, and being critical.

I do like teaching counterpoint and voice leading... from the pop and jazz perspective of "try not to have voices jump around too much unless you like how that sounds, you're always a half-step from the truth, trust your ears and have fun out there."

I learned how to do SATB part-writing to get through grad school myself, and even got good at it, but lord almighty did I hate it and regret the time and money I spent on those semesters.