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Thursday May 5, 2016
I haven’t blogged in a while. Today I feel like I have recently done some fun things in my rehearsals and made some discoveries that I...
Barbara Retzko
May 5, 20162 min read
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Friday October 10, 2014
It’s Friday afternoon. The Dance Collective is practicing in my classroom and I am reflecting about the week gone by. My thoughts...
Barbara Retzko
Oct 10, 20142 min read
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The Internet, iPhones, Ipads, Laptops and a Choral Ensemble’s Quarterly Assessment (November 2013)
Our high school has restructured its cumulative testing by removing final exams from the schedule. In place of exams, we have been asked...
Barbara Retzko
Apr 18, 20143 min read
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Choral Assessment – Listening Assignment (December 2011)
Once a semester I record the singers in the Voorhees Choir at Rutgers University and create a listening assignment for them. They are to...
Barbara Retzko
Apr 18, 20141 min read
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Sibelius 6 – A Tool for High School Choral Music Assessment (January 2011)
Edited by Joan Catoni Conlon, with text by Torquato Tasso, Claudio Monteverdi wrote a beautiful madrigal called Ecco Mormorar L’Onde. It...
Barbara Retzko
Apr 18, 20142 min read
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