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June/July 2024

-Bruckner’s Mass in F Minor
-An Exploration of Bruckner’s Two Settings of Um Mitternacht
-The Motets of Anton Bruckner
-Incorporating Movement in Choral Performance
-Directing Choirs at the Perkins School for the Blind
-Book Reviews

May 2024

-Remembering Alice Parker
-From Censorship to Celebration
-Repertoire & Resources from Genre Specific Choirs
-IJRCS Vol 11 Abstracts
-Student Times
-Recorded Sound Reviews
-Choral Reviews

March/April 2024

-Universal Design for Learning
-Emotion and Drama in Lament for the Stolen
-International Conductors Exchange Program: US-Germany Recap
-Research Report: Culturally Responsive Pedagogical/Andragogical Context Knowledge in Choral Music
-On the Voice: Building Bridges and Moving Forward
-2024 Summer Festival & Workshop Listings

IJRCS Volume 12

In this issue:
 Making Space for Inclusive Approaches: A Review of Adolescent Gender Identity in High School Choirs (A. Young and J. Goopy)
 Women Conductors of College Men’s Choirs – Redefining the “Brotherhood” (M. Stohlmann)
 Embodying the Music: A Survey of Choral Music Educators on Conducting Injury and Wellness Techniques (R. Sullivan, C. McNickle, B. Wehner, S. Li)
 Scoping the Literature of Transgender Singing: Experiences and Pedagogical Insights in Choral Contexts (N. Cooper, N. Manion, S. Harrison)
 Validating and Piloting a Choral Educator Questionnaire: The Use of Culture Bearers and Pedagogical Implications of Singing in Multiple Timbres (A. Schmidt)
 Music Teacher’s Perceptions of Nonverbal Conducting Technique Items in Teaching Choir in the Classroom (J. Kim)
 “Sing, sit, and leave”: Engagement and Disillusionment in a High School Chorus (F. Martignetti)
 Self-Efficacy and Achievement among Secondary School Vocalists: An Exploratory Study (T. Rinn)

ChorTeach Winter 2024 (16.1)

-Ask a Conductor Question 8
-Building an Ensemble of Growth
-Teaching Metric Stress and “Meter” in Renaissance Polyphony
-Revisiting Your Personal Philosophy of Music Education
-K-12 Resources: Combined Choir Ideas

February 2024

-Choral Vibrato: The Hundred Years’ War
-Assessment in the Collegiate Choral Classroom
-Kirke Mechem: A Summing Up
-A Skills-First Approach to the All-State Selection
-Retirement and the Professional Choral Director
-Approved Constitution and Bylaws
-2025 National Conference Information