Don Kaplan

Don Kaplan is the author of several books, including See With Your Ears: The Creative Music Book. He has contributed to Early Music America, Strings magazine, Music Educators Journal, The Monthly, The New York Times, and other publications. He has taught at several colleges, such as the Bank Street College of Education and the New School for Social Research, and has been a visiting artist at several Bay Area and New York City schools.

Articles by this Author

CD REVIEW
  Volti: <em>House of Voices</em> Venturing Out With Volti
December 7, 2012

Impeccable performances of adventuresome new works are the hallmark of the Volti choral ensemble.

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Choral REVIEW
 Volti  Choral Dancing on a High Wire
February 27, 2010

What can you expect from a chorus whose motto is “singing without a net”? Certainly not sea chanteys or singers standing solemnly on risers. Instead, audiences attending Volti’s memorable concert Saturday at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco found themselves Shoveling Snow With Buddha; encountering Gossiping Women; listening to freely tonal, microtonal, and atonal music; and performing some music themselves.

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