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Cambiata Voices: Finding the Shoe that Fits

When working with early adolescent male voices, choral music teachers are confronted with two challenges: identifying the singing range of each male singer and finding quality music to fit the musical ranges of their male students. A brief video will demonstrate a testing procedure to identify range, ear quickness, and timbre quality of the Cambiata […]

Dallas, TX
Alan C. McClung



Best Kept Secrets: Commission Gems from GALA Choruses

This repertoire session and clinic will briefly describe the how-to steps for commissioning new music and the benefits choirs can experience in working with a living, breathing composer to bring new music to life! The majority of the workshop will be conducted as a repertoire session introducing workshop participants to new commissions that are available […]

Providence, RI
John Quillin