This session has been designed to inform teachers working with adolescent singers. Discussion will feature practical and applicable techniques for working with and meeting the needs of this student population. Emphasis will be placed on teacher awareness of key adolescent characteristics including the adolescent ego, the impact of emotional components of the adolescent choral student, […]
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A Conductor’s Guide to the Preparation of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Using the forces of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, and student soloists, this session will identify for the conductor the necessary steps and important considerations in the rehearsal process of Bach’s masterwork. The session will illuminate the conductor’s tasks in initial, separate rehearsals of the chorus, orchestra, and soloists […]
Catch-as-Catch-Can: Rounds, Canons, and Part-Song Resources
A demonstration choir will show various styles of rounds and part songs (catches) that will enhance the teaching of intonation, style, and part independence. Audience members will also participate in singing partner songs and quodlibets.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
One of the most important, yet underdeveloped, teaching tools is our ability to clearly represent what we mean musically through gesture. Often in rehearsals, we send conflicting messages to the ensemble. We tell the choir one thing but show something else entirely. Creating consistency between what the ensemble is told and what they are shown […]
Zielenski in Venice: “Italian” Gems from Renaissance Poland
The music of Poland’s leading late Renaissance composers reveal much about the important relationship between Poland and Italy during the seventeenth century, and the striking influence the Italianate style had on Polish composers of the time. Mikolaj Zielenski, most notably, may have even studied with Giovanni Gabrieli; his choral works display typical Venetian influence, but […]
Where Are All the Boys?
Would you like more boys in your children’s choir? This session deals with the challenge of recruiting boys into a children’s choir, and retaining them and meeting their needs once you get them. (Naturally, the ideas presented will work for girls as well!)
