This session will explore rehearsal techniques for the choral conductor, drawing from William Dehning’s “12 Commandments” as the primary basis of the session; (excerpted from Dehning’s Chorus Confidential: Decoding the Secret of the Choral Art (2003: Pavane). The session will also explore less familiar techniques such as “thesis-antithesis-synthesis”; “macro-micro-macro”; and “stimulus variation.” All of the […]
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Real Men Sing! A Session for Techniques, Repertoire, and Recruitment for Male Voices.
Real Men Sing! Is an interest session that will focus on various aspects of male singing such as recruitment techniques and methods, effective pedagogical techniques, varied, appropriate repertoire and director approach. How do we motivate them to sing, and encourage them to sing “like men” in a healthy way? How do we find appropriate repertoire […]
Preparing Female Student Choral Conductors for Success in the New Millenium
This session will be a panel discussion of college and university teachers of conducting that will address the preparation of student conductors, with particular attention to the special challenges facing female choral conductors, and how best to mentor and prepare them for successful careers. Panelists include: Hilary Apfelstadt, director of choral activities, faculty of music, […]
A Practical Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral/Orchestral Performance Practice
Today’s performers imagine that modern ideas about how to perform Romantic music correspond with what the composers themselves would have heard. But in recent years, restoration of many early recordings and research into various written sources have revealed a very different picture. A lost tradition of nineteenth-century interpretation is currently being re-discovered by a number […]
No Experience? No Problem! Vocal Instruction for Non-Singers
This session will focus on vocal techniques that are easily understood by students with little to no singing experience, and that will help them quickly become contributing members of a choral ensemble. We will also discuss specific teaching strategies in helping motivate these kinds of students. One of the presenter’s greatest joys in the choral […]
My Principal and Students Want a Glee Choir NOW What Do I Do?
This session will provide guidance in developing a basic teaching philosophy for inclusion of a show choir, utilizing the ACDA Show Choir Standards of Excellence, and basic information on how to achieve those standards.
