As choir directors, we can often feel like our recruitment possibilities are capped. We work hard to recruit at the beginning of the semester. Still, with every two or three gained, around the same number are lost. We can feel as though we are spinning our wheels. This session will focus on four steps for […]
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Choral Techniques in the Digital Classroom
McGraw-Hill Education and Hal Leonard Publishing have partnered to bring you Voices in Concert, a twenty-first-century choral music solution. Voices in Concert helps students build sight-singing and musicianship skills through a sequenced, leveled approach by leveraging a robust curriculum and interactive digital tools. Participants will explore lessons that are designed to build specific choral techniques […]
Bilingual Conducting: Connecting Voices and Instruments through Culture-Specific Vocabulary
Choral and orchestral conducting can be considered two different cultures within the same performing art. To communicate effectively in each, it is essential to become conversant in the languages of both. Individuals who are bilingual move naturally and quickly between languages. They are also familiar with the inflections, accentuation, conventions, and rhetoric of multiple cultures. […]
The Art of Song: Challenging Young Singers to Discover Artistry
Drawing on over twenty years of her work with young artists, Anne Tomlinson leads this session focusing on developing vocal and choral techniques within a nurturing context for singers ages ten to eighteen. Los Angeles Children’s Chorus’s premiere ensemble, Concert Choir, will offer current repertoire in various stages of development, including Bernstein’s Mass and Norman’s […]
The Active Choir: Using West African Drumming and Dance to Augment Choral Rehearsals and Performance
This session will show the positive impact of incorporating African Drumming and Dance into choral practice and performance. Specifically, West African Dance is a full-body, high-energy experience requiring both coordination and communication, and control of the body and the mind—skills that are essential for exceptional choral singing. During this session we will examine how singers’ […]
Young People – Old Music: Building Bridges
In a recent survey of music per-formed at ACDA National Conferences from 1960 to 2017 (Choral Journal, May 2017), less than 20% of compositions were from the Romantic period or earlier. With so many new choral titles available today, it can be easy to neglect music from earlier historical periods. Selling “old” music to young […]
