This session is about maintaining your program from year-to-year and recruiting for future success with practical applications in the high school choral classroom.
Seattle WA.Kurt McKee
Ensemble Development
Creating Music in Alaska
Chasing Phrases! Moving Away from the Note:) Chasing Paradigm in your Choral Rehearsal
This interest session offers some creative rehearsal strategies based on the concept that composers often leave “musical clues” in their scores for us to discover and help bring the music to life. These clues—found in text-settings, melodic shapes, harmonies, rhythms, and even the printed expressive markings (dynamics, articulations etc.)—can be the sources that inform and […]
Seattle WA.Graeme Langager
Choir is … The Meanings of the Choral Experience Grades 7-12
While music making is essential to the choral experience, the meanings found by choral students in grades 7–12 are far from confined to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through a session using the responses of 200 choral students, the presenter will discuss the dominant themes of meaning found by these singers. Utilizing the students’ own […]
Fort Wayne IN.Andrea Ramsey
Teaching Authentic Pop Styles to the Traditional Choir
The U.S. Navy’s Sea Chanters are called upon to sing a wide array of repertoire; from the most serious choral literature to pop music of the present day. The members of the ensemble will demonstrate how they move effortlessly between divergent styles in a manner that is stylistically and musically viable and healthy for the […]
Fort Wayne IN.United States Navy's Sea Chanters
Rehearsal: It’s Why We Get Paid
The Collegiate Repertoire Chorale will expose singers to new repertoire and techniques within a collaborative context with other collegiate choristers. The clinician will lead the choir through a range of musics exploring a variety of choral sonorities. The sessions will experiment with techniques suitable to the creation of these sounds. The format allows for an […]
Fort Wayne IN.Paul Rardin
