The gentle yet powerful, soft-spoken yet courageous voice of Mister Fred Rogers continues to inspire our world’s neighborhoods today. This session will explore how the simple yet profound lessons explored for more than three decades of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” can become a model for our choral classrooms, church music ministries, and choir communities
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Singing with Big Ears: Using Vocal Jazz Exercises to Improve Ear Training Across the Entire Choral Program
Do you wish every singer in your choir was a monster sight-reader, had flawless intonation, and could learn advanced music quickly? Vocal jazz warmups develop high-level ear training for singing complex jazz harmony, and these same techniques can be used with any other kind of choir. This session will show conductors how to use simple […]
Rediscovering Early Music with Members of Seraphic Fire and Early Music America
You don’t need to understand the complexity or history of early music for it to be available to people on all emotional, intellectual, and musical levels. Early music has many of the ingredients for teaching—not just musicianship, but also musicality. Join members of Seraphic Fire and Early Music America for this reading session and discussion […]
It’s About All of Us: The Collaborative Future of Choral Music in Empathy, Servant Leadership, and Selflessness
Transformational choral experiences are a much desired yet elusive result of our work. These moments that touch lives and create lifelong singers can occur all too rarely. In this session, four leaders will share their vision, research, expertise, and experience in the search for a truly communal art. Discussion will explore inspiring models for empathetic […]
How to Talk to a Girl: Updated Research and Innovative Rehearsal Techniques for Young Women Ages 10-18
How you “talk to a girl” has a tremendous impact on the climate and production of female singers, age 10-18, and the choir as a community. This interactive session will use singers currently in different phases of female voice change to demonstrate favorite and successful methods used by the Allegro Choirs of Kansas City. The […]
Heartbeat and Harmony: Exploring Vocal and Choral Repertoire with Percussion
If rhythm is the heartbeat of music, then singing is surely its soul. Discover choral settings of folk, traditional, and contemporary music featuring percussion, from traditional instruments to the global groove of body percussion and drumming. We will explore collaborative repertoire that bridges the gap between classroom singing and repertoire for beginning, intermediate, and advanced […]
