Managing a classroom is about communicating clear and consistent expectations. With fewer resources, less support from parents and administrators, and more pressure on recruiting, the success of music programs depends on classroom management more than ever. Through creative lesson planning, a high level of student responsibility, and an insistence on excellence everyday, the classroom will […]
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Collaboration in the Ensemble Arts: Working and Playing Well with Others
Ensemble directors are masters of collaboration within the rehearsal room, but how about outside this environment? One of the keys to a successful program in the twenty-first century is the ability to collaborate with other groups and organizations. This session outlines the four keys to collaboration: (1) Identifying/Creating a Unifying Goal; (2) Inciting a common […]
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 […]
September 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Johannes Brahms Opus 62: Sieben Lieder fur gemischten Chor, Seven Unaccompanied Songs for Mixed Chorus: A Detailed Exploration, Part 1by Marika Kuzma Mozart’s Misericordias Domini: A Conductor’s Guide by David Rayl and Ryan Kelly Chen Yi: Composing to Honor Her Past by Michael Murphy On the Voice Constructing the Voice: Present and Future […]
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 […]
Heart, Head, Hands: Self-Renewing Skills for Conducting/Ensemble Leading
This session will explore the means that are always available to us for self-refreshing, focus, and self-renewal: drawingon innate musical talent and love of music; using a variety of personal learning styles to find the essence of music; allowing personal conducting gestures to organically arise from musical ideas.
