I auditioned for Colorado Repertory Singers a few months ago and we are preparing for our Christmas Concert. We are singing this Nigerian Christmas Carol. I was asked to choreograph the movements for our choir last week and have been listening to it quite a bit to get ideas from the Mo Tab version.
Enjoy the video, it is really fun! The Nigerians know how to get down.
Jenny Hatch

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I love the message of this song!
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David Cook is the winner!!!!

UPDATE
I think David A. pulled it off last night. We’ll see.
Jenny Hatch

THE details of this week’s “American Idol” David vs. David showdown are finally beginning to emerge.

This season’s winner will be crowned tomorrow night, and it will either be 16-year-old David Archuleta or 25-year-old David Cook.

The pair will be judged on three songs, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said yesterday during a call in to “Idol” host Ryan Seacrest’s daily radio show.

The first song will be picked by music industry legend Clive Davis – who until last month was the chairman of Sony BMG, the company that owns J Records, which gives each “Idol” winner a record contract.

I love them both, don’t really care who wins!
Jenny Hatch

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The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 2000 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.

“Different types of categorization produce different geometrical spaces, and reflect the different ways in which musicians over the centuries have understood music. This achievement, they expect, will allow researchers to analyze and understand music in much deeper and more satisfying ways.

The work represents a significant departure from other attempts to quantify music, according to Rachel Wells Hall of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. In an accompanying essay, she writes that their effort, “stands out both for the breadth of its musical implications and the depth of its mathematical content.”

The method, according to its authors, allows them to analyze and compare many kinds of Western (and perhaps some non-Western) music. (The method focuses on Western-style music because concepts like “chord” are not universal in all styles.) It also incorporates many past schemes by music theorists to render music into mathematical form.”

Really Cool research!
Jenny Hatch