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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