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 […]
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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.
Making Music Inside-Out: Text, Context, and the Gift of Self
This session will use music of Randall Thompson, Tomas Luis da Victoria, and George Frederick Handel to assist conductors in finding the inner clues often hidden in the musical notation that provide some insight into how the music should actually sound. While the repertoire for this session is written for mixed voices (soprano, alto, tenor, […]
Johannes Herbst: Colonial Winston-Salem’s Bridge to the Berlin Song School
The life of Johannes Herbst represents the first generation of the renewed Moravian Church in Europe and America. Unique among the well-traveled Moravian leadership, he lived in every significant center of Moravian life from his birth in 1735, until his death in 1812. He is buried in Winston-Salem’s Moravian cemetery. Atypical among Moravian leaders, Herbst […]
I’m Listening—Really?
How do we listen and what are we listening for in our rehearsals and concerts? Can we hear while we are thinking about what’s coming next? Does the sensory clutter allow us to be in the moment? Making decisions in the moment based upon what we hear rather than what we expect can be challenging […]
From the Cloister: An Introduction to the Choral Music of Isabella Leonarda
Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) entered an Ursaline Convent at the age of 16. During her many years at the convent, Leonarda composed and published 200 compositions making her the most published female composer of the Baroque era. This session will introduce choral musicians to her music using examples from several of the forms listed above. In […]
