During this session we will look at various models for programming at all levels and discuss why certain tendencies seem to attract audiences and others tend to have them racing to get out of the hall. We will look at our likelihood to program only certain kinds of repertoire. In addition, we will study ways […]
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Building a Resume’ for Success: Landing Your First Conducting Job
In this session, Jeremy Shepherd will offer practical resources, ideas, and methods that will equip you with themost crucial characteristic of a successful resume: experience! Outline I. Boosting the resume, a. Opportunities on campus, b. Opportunities in the community, c. Opportunities at local schools and churches, d. Creating unique conducing and teaching experiences, e. Conferences […]
The Art Of A Cappella Singing
Give your ensemble a polished sound through repertoire selection, tone, blend, style, and stage presence. The award-winning ensemble The Song-men join with former King’s Singer Philip Lawson in an informal and interactive demonstration that includes a packet of selected repertoire for those attending.
February 2013
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES The Dean Hussey Choral Commissions: An Annotated Guideby David Howard Forming Your Chorus’s Very Own Orchestra: The Mentors Modelby Anthony Antolini An Interview with Tonu Kaljuste by Vance Wolverton On the Voice:Building Body-Voices: Developing Moving Musicians in Choral Rehearsalsby Therees Tkach Hibbard Hibbard Video Clips 1-10 Hibbard Video Clips 11-20 […]
January 2013
Download the complete issue. Articles War Requiem Special Events Performing Choirs Interest Sessions Honor Choir Conductors
IJRCS Volume 4
Fall 2012 Issue:
Editorial: Moving Forward (J. F. Daugherty)
Assessing and Enhancing Feedback of Choral Conductors Through Analysis and
Training (T. Biddlecombe)
Hearing Doses and Perceptions of Hearing and Singing Effort Among University
Choral Singers in Varied Rehearsal and Performance Settings (S. L. Cook-
Cunningham, M. L. Grady, & H. Nelson)
The Effect of Nonverbal Conductor Lip Rounding and Eyebrow Lifting on
Singers’ Lip and Eyebrow Postures: A Motion Capture Study (J. N. Manternach)
Quantitative Voice Class Assessment of Amateur Choir Singers: A Pilot
Investigation (C. T. Herbst, E. Duus, H. Jers, & J. G. Švec)
The A Cappella Oratorio: An Investigation of Interactions Between Ethos and
Fine Art in Choral Singing Among Old Mennonites at Hesston College (1912-
1949)(M. Schloneger)
Students’ Registration in Collegiate Choral Ensembles: Factors That Influence
Continued Participation (T. R. Brown)
Endnotes: Announcements of Professional Interest
Spring 2013 Issue:
Editorial: Voice Care Training for Choral Conductors (J. F. Daugherty)
The English Choral Tradition and the Secular Trend in Boys’ Pubertal Timing (M.
Ashley)
Changes in Tone Quality as a Function of Focus of Attention in Untrained Singers
(R. L. Atkins & R. A. Duke)
The Effects of Watching Three Types of Conductor Gestures and Performing
Varied Gestures Along with the Conductor on Measures of Singers’ Intonation
and Tone Quality: A Pilot Study (M. C. Brunkan)
The Many Facets of Madeleine Marshall: A Historical and Cultural Perspective of
Madeleine “Graham Jones” Marshall (1899-1993), Author of The Singer’s Manual
of English Diction (S. L. Cook-Cunningham)
A Quantitative Content Analysis of In-Text Citations in Choral Pedagogy Books
Published Between 1989-2009 (S. K. Jones)
Critical Thinking in the Choral Rehearsal: An Initial Study of Approaches to
Teacher Training (J. Nápoles, S. Babb, J. Bowers, M. Garrett, & A. Vázquez-Ramos
Endnotes: Announcements of Professional Interest
