This repertoire session and clinic will briefly describe the how-to steps for commissioning new music and the benefits choirs can experience in working with a living, breathing composer to bring new music to life! The majority of the workshop will be conducted as a repertoire session introducing workshop participants to new commissions that are available […]
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Why Are You Here? Planning for What Really Matters
This session will explore why you should consider the affective needs of your singers and reveal concrete ways you can plan for experiences that will transform your teaching and the lives of those you teach.
When Music Meets Theology
In this session, a panel will consider: What considerations should be involved in the performance of the music of a religious tradition unfamiliar to the director or to the ensemble? In what kinds of situations should an interfaith worship service be developed, and who should be invited? What creative, inspirational, and unifying non-worship experiences can […]
Teaching Historical and Cultural Context through Choral Music
Much of the world’s music finds its power through relationships with events, cultures, and the great stories of civilization. This session will focus on ways to identify with and remember those things we should never forget.
Process to Product: Demystifying Score Study and Energizing Your Rehearsals
Using several works from standard high school repertoire, this session demonstrates ways to bring score study a practical way of determining rehearsal goals and strategies. Learner outcomes include an increased understanding of how score study relates to interpretive decisions, reduced anxiety about what score study entails, and increased confidence in one’s ability to wed analytical […]
Process in Practice: Honor Choir Observations
Because Beyond the Notes is all about the process of music-making, each honor choir will also have a designated open rehearsal during the interest sessions for convention participants to observe the process of music-making from the very beginning as they learn and rehearse a choral piece they receive when they arrive at the conference.
