Diane Clark has collaborated with longtime friend and colleague Bill Biffle of Albuquerque, NM, to produce the book So You Want to Sing Barbershop, which is Book #8 of the So You Want to Sing series published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Company. Check out the series here:
http://www.nats.org/So_You_Want_To_Sing_Book_Series.html
The book became available in July of 2017. Use promotion code number 7A30AUTHF to save 30% of the retail cost.
granddiva@charter.net
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Virtually every source that purports to give advice to beginning writers will caution, "Write about what you know." In that spirit, here is one of Diane Clark's award-winning Shakespearian sonnets from a few decades ago:
ROSE TO THE OCCASION
It's opening night. The audience arrives.
Enthusiasm spawns a painful din.
They leave behind the cares of daily lives
To feed the hunger of the soul within.
Backstage inside a lonely dressing room
A woman paces nervously about.
Upon her face there is a look of doom;
She's frozen at the thought of going out.
A knock upon the door arrests her thought;
She opens to a stagehand standing there.
He shyly brings a rose, which he has brought,
Blurts "Break a leg!" and runs back down the stair.
Now with a smile the diva sings aloud
And goes to charm the wild, adoring crowd.
Copyright © 1993 Diane M. Clark
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In addition to writing several articles for the Journal of Singing, The Classical Singer, and various other professional music journals, Clark was invited to write a chapter for music educator Dr. Edwin E. Gordon's 1989 book entitled Readings in Music Learning Theory (GIM Publications Inc., Chicago. IL). The chapter is entitled "Music Learning Sequence Activities in the Private Voice Lesson."
In 1997 Clark was invited to contribute her teaching portfolio as a sample in educator Peter Seldin's second edition of The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions (Anker Publishing Co., Inc., Bolton, MA).
In 1994, inspired by two Memphis poet friends who had done similar work to benefit Habitat for Humanity and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Clark self-published her own book of poetry, The Poet's Eye (85 poems), as a benefit for the Memphis Literacy Council (now Literacy Mid-South). Readers could obtain a copy in one of two ways -- by volunteering to be a tutor in the literacy program or by making a financial donation of $15 or more to the MLC. Over $4000 was raised, and one new tutor was procured. http://www.literacymidsouth.org Clark is both an Honorary and a Life member of the Poetry Society of Tennessee and was honored as Poet Laureate of the group in 1997-98. http://poetrysocietytn.org
Friday Flash Fiction has published 25 of Clark's 100-word stories. https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories
Clark has also served as reader/editor for articles and books by other authors, including Evelyn Harper, author of The Accidental Mystery Series,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F5HSK0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
and Richard Pearson, author of The Role.
http://www.richardtpearson.com
Clark is a member of the online writers' community Scribophile. https://www.scribophile.com Having achieved the ranks of Scribbler, Pencil Pusher, Paper Jockey, Pen-Wrangler, Calligrapher, Typesetter, Ink Slinger, Grammarian, Inkmaster, Writer, Scribe, and Wordmaster, she is currently at the level of Laureate.
http://www.nats.org/So_You_Want_To_Sing_Book_Series.html
The book became available in July of 2017. Use promotion code number 7A30AUTHF to save 30% of the retail cost.
granddiva@charter.net
#########################
Virtually every source that purports to give advice to beginning writers will caution, "Write about what you know." In that spirit, here is one of Diane Clark's award-winning Shakespearian sonnets from a few decades ago:
ROSE TO THE OCCASION
It's opening night. The audience arrives.
Enthusiasm spawns a painful din.
They leave behind the cares of daily lives
To feed the hunger of the soul within.
Backstage inside a lonely dressing room
A woman paces nervously about.
Upon her face there is a look of doom;
She's frozen at the thought of going out.
A knock upon the door arrests her thought;
She opens to a stagehand standing there.
He shyly brings a rose, which he has brought,
Blurts "Break a leg!" and runs back down the stair.
Now with a smile the diva sings aloud
And goes to charm the wild, adoring crowd.
Copyright © 1993 Diane M. Clark
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In addition to writing several articles for the Journal of Singing, The Classical Singer, and various other professional music journals, Clark was invited to write a chapter for music educator Dr. Edwin E. Gordon's 1989 book entitled Readings in Music Learning Theory (GIM Publications Inc., Chicago. IL). The chapter is entitled "Music Learning Sequence Activities in the Private Voice Lesson."
In 1997 Clark was invited to contribute her teaching portfolio as a sample in educator Peter Seldin's second edition of The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions (Anker Publishing Co., Inc., Bolton, MA).
In 1994, inspired by two Memphis poet friends who had done similar work to benefit Habitat for Humanity and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Clark self-published her own book of poetry, The Poet's Eye (85 poems), as a benefit for the Memphis Literacy Council (now Literacy Mid-South). Readers could obtain a copy in one of two ways -- by volunteering to be a tutor in the literacy program or by making a financial donation of $15 or more to the MLC. Over $4000 was raised, and one new tutor was procured. http://www.literacymidsouth.org Clark is both an Honorary and a Life member of the Poetry Society of Tennessee and was honored as Poet Laureate of the group in 1997-98. http://poetrysocietytn.org
Friday Flash Fiction has published 25 of Clark's 100-word stories. https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories
Clark has also served as reader/editor for articles and books by other authors, including Evelyn Harper, author of The Accidental Mystery Series,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F5HSK0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
and Richard Pearson, author of The Role.
http://www.richardtpearson.com
Clark is a member of the online writers' community Scribophile. https://www.scribophile.com Having achieved the ranks of Scribbler, Pencil Pusher, Paper Jockey, Pen-Wrangler, Calligrapher, Typesetter, Ink Slinger, Grammarian, Inkmaster, Writer, Scribe, and Wordmaster, she is currently at the level of Laureate.
