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Discovering Talent: Strategies to Recruit New Students into the School Choral Program

As choral directors, we are always exploring ways to recruit singers and increase enrollment in our programs. At a time when students are inundated with a variety of courses and activities, how can we encourage them to try singing in a choir? This session will focus on identifying and developing recruitment efforts that appeal to […]

Composition in the Choral Music Classroom: Lessons from a Composer-in-Residence Songwriting Workshop for Elementary Choristers

For the past fifteen years, choral composer Jim Papoulis has traveled biennially to the Chicagoland area to engage the North Shore Country Day School Lower School Chorus in three-day songwriting workshops. Based on ethnographic research conducted during the 2017 Songwriting Workshop, this session will explore the process of collective songwriting in the choral music classroom […]

Beyond the Benefit Concert: Activism through Community Collaboration

In recent years, choirs have begun prioritizing community collaborations around social justice issues. However, these partnerships typically take the form of one-time benefit concerts, lacking meaningful connection between ensemble members and the community organization or social justice issue it may address. This session describes a collaboration between music and social work academics and a human […]

February 2018

Download the complete issue. (9 MB) electronic Choral Journal **Download individual articles by clicking on the titles below.** FEATURESunCOVENTional Restoration: Giving Voice to the Silencedby Meredith Bowen Gaining Perspective: A Linguistic Approach to Dialect Found in African American Spiritualsby Felicia Barber The Seven Last Words of Christ: Comparing the Settings of Cesar Frank and Theodore […]

January 2018

Download the complete issue. (20 MB) electronic Choral Journal **Download individual articles by clicking on the titles below.** PREVIEWSCentral/North Central Region Southern Region Northwestern Region Southwestern Region Eastern Region Western Region