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Mentoring in the Ensemble Arts: Helping Others Find Their Voice

This session examines the mentor/protégé dynamic and its critical impact on the lives of ensembles and their conductors. Drawing from research and personal experience, this presentation gives a portrait of a rarely discussed aspect of the conductor’s life. The goal of the session is to help the conductor realize the full potential of the mentor/protégé […]

Mainstreamed into Music

This session is aimed at giving music educators tips and tools to use when including singers with intellectual, physical and developmental challenges in choral music. Time will be reserved for participants to ask questions specific to their own schools and students.

Locomotion: Using Eurythmics in the Choral Rehearsal

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 […]

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 […]

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