This session will demonstrate how the use of eurythmics in the choral rehearsal can enhance music performance. Specifically, it will show how movement can be used (1) to assist with rhythmic accuracy; (2) to achieve better ensemble singing; (3) to energize music that moves slowly; and (4) to shape melodic lines and assist with proper […]
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Leonard Bernstein And Choral Community Making: Focus on Innovative Concert Collaborations Dedicated to Musical Diversity, Social Inclusion, and Building Community
Working from the musical context of a recently published concert version of Bernstein’s Mass, the session will demonstrate how to widen social boundaries, encourage musical diversity, and build community through the use of a uniquely American repertoire that links sacred and secular, pop and concert, gospel and jazz.
Interpretation and Performance Practices in Latin American Choral Music
“Phrasing with your heaps,” or how to study, rehearse, and perform choral Cuban son, Caribbean bolero, vocal adaptations from the Krao Indians in Brazil, Andean tonada and cueca, Venezuelan joropo, and the Pan-American salsa. These styles comprise the repertoire of the 2012 ACDA Eastern Division Latin American Honor Choir.
Individualized Assessment in the Choral Ensemble
This professional development session will provide both a philosophical rationale and practical suggestions for incorporating individualized assessment within the choral ensemble. It is designed for teachers and teachers’ educators. In order to increase accountability for the individual musical development of students, teachers need to explore various methods for assessing student progress and evaluating their own […]
I Can’t Believe I Said That! … or How Do We Speak to Our Singers?
This discussion will allow conductors to increase their self-awareness of how they might come across to those in front of them, and how to turn around negativity into positive and constructive statements for more effective interpersonal relationships with our singers. Discussion topics will also include professional ethics and jealousy. This panel discussion will include conductors […]
The Hows and Whys of Therapeutic and Service Choirs
This panel discussion, led by Jason Thoms, is on therapeutic and service choirs. This session will include discussion of music’s effect on the brain, and what we can do as choir directors to provide “healing” opportunities to our singers and audiences. The discussion and information provided will also assist directors in beginning new choirs for […]
