Vince Peterson
@vincepeterson.bsky.social
Conductor, Composer, and Musician Advocate; Founder of Choral Chameleon in NYC and Artistic Director of Empire City Men’s Chorus; Writer
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Vince Peterson
@vincepeterson.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Others have already said this but here's a hot take in case you missed it: #choralmusic is so powerful that even the world's least intelligent oaf who happens to have been gifted the US Presidency had a choir of criminals formed to influence and indoctrinate even more unintelligent evil heretics.
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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Video: From the slopes to the stage, America hates this dork.
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
Attendance of vice-president – who once disbelieved that people listened to classical music for pleasure – strikes sour note at Kennedy Center in light of Maga takeover
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March 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Video: From the slopes to the stage, America hates this dork.
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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On Twitter, I had posted about a composer who took a Lakota ceremonial song & inappropriately turned it into a choral piece. Today, a group of Native music educators, allies, with support from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office are calling for the ACDA to take accountability.
February 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
On Twitter, I had posted about a composer who took a Lakota ceremonial song & inappropriately turned it into a choral piece. Today, a group of Native music educators, allies, with support from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office are calling for the ACDA to take accountability.
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We are asking the American Choral Directors Association to 1) issue a public statement acknowledging harm caused by platforming Linthicum, 2) Remove Linthicum’s music from resource lists, 3) work w/ Native cultural authorities to develop vetting processes for Indigenous music.
February 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We are asking the American Choral Directors Association to 1) issue a public statement acknowledging harm caused by platforming Linthicum, 2) Remove Linthicum’s music from resource lists, 3) work w/ Native cultural authorities to develop vetting processes for Indigenous music.
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After my wife died, I joined a community choir. It gave me respite from my private grief | David Sornig
After my wife died, I joined a community choir. It gave me respite from my private grief | David Sornig
When Toni fell ill I stopped playing music entirely. Yet every so often I felt the urge to return
The first person who spoke to me on the first day of choir was a woman who’d sat beside me in the crowded alto section. She leaned my way and said a little…
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March 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
After my wife died, I joined a community choir. It gave me respite from my private grief | David Sornig
Others have already said this but here's a hot take in case you missed it: #choralmusic is so powerful that even the world's least intelligent oaf who happens to have been gifted the US Presidency had a choir of criminals formed to influence and indoctrinate even more unintelligent evil heretics.
March 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Others have already said this but here's a hot take in case you missed it: #choralmusic is so powerful that even the world's least intelligent oaf who happens to have been gifted the US Presidency had a choir of criminals formed to influence and indoctrinate even more unintelligent evil heretics.