Retzko's Blog | choral-director

Barbara Retzko

Apr 18, 20141 min read

Perhaps Wishing will Make it so… (December 2011)

After a recent conversation with several choral colleagues with whom I must have said a dozen times, “I wish my choir would. . .,” I...

Barbara Retzko

Apr 18, 20142 min read

Are you familiar with Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements? AGREEMENT 1 Be impeccable with your word – Speak with integrity. Say only...

Barbara Retzko

Apr 18, 20142 min read

Edited by Joan Catoni Conlon, with text by Torquato Tasso, Claudio Monteverdi wrote a beautiful madrigal called Ecco Mormorar L’Onde. It...