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Show Choir Sessions: Dan Baker: Heart of America’s Executive Producer Marty & Mark Lindvahl, retired music educators and clinicians extraordinaire, are my guest this week along with their son-in-law Aaron Smiley to share about their new invention: Judge’s Assistant. Judge’s Assistant uses AI to transcribe, categorize, and summarize judges’ recorded comments

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Sherman Charles: Founder of Carmen Scoring

Sherman Charles is the founder of ⁠Carmen Scoring⁠, the system used by more that 60 show choir competitions throughout the US, as well as many other instrumental, acapella, and even international events. Sherman tells the story of how Carmen came to be and shares a lot of great insight into

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Julianne Merril: Broadway Programmer / Music Director

My guest today is ⁠Julianne Merrill⁠, who works on Broadway as a music director, pianist, and electronic music designer. Both of us are alumni of North Central High School in Indianapolis and we have worked together for the past several seasons on the show choir creative team. We’ve also collaborated

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Dan Baker: Heart of America’s Executive Producer

Dan Baker is the Executive Producer for ⁠Heart of America⁠, one of the most prestigious and well respected organizations in the world of show choir. As the person responsible for pulling off each of HOA’s large national competitions every season, he has a lot of great advice to share with

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