Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association 5 | the MIKE ISTAD METHOD from the President’S Pen · by Robert Istad

CHORAL/ VOCAL PROGRAM

Dr. Robert Istad Dr. Christopher Peterson Director of Choral Studies Choral Music Education/ Choirs

Recent performances and recordings include: 2018 Performance at ACDA Western Division Conference, 2018 Performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, and with Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 2017 recording with Yarlung Records, 2016 Recording with John Williams for Sony Classical, 2016 Performance with Kathleen Battle, 2015 Choral- Orchestral Performances in Paris, France.

Recent repertoire highlights: Mahler Eighth Symphony, Lang The Little Match Girl Passion, Mendelssohn Elijah, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Howells Requiem, Bach St. John Passion, Händel Israel in Egypt, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Lauridsen Lux Aeterna.

Annual performances: the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, and Andrea Bocelli at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and major arenas.

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2 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association 5 | THE MIKE ISTAD METHOD from the president’s pen · by robert istad

7 | SO LONG FOR JUST A WHILE from the vice president’s pen · by lou de la rosa

8 | KITTENS AND RAINBOWS letter from the editor · by eliza rubenstein

10 | SINGING SENIORS healthy, happy singing for the older adults in your choir · by nicole aldrich

15 | THE NOTES ARE JUST NOTES the composer’s voice · by dale trumbore

19 | SEEN & HEARD

21 | CCDA SUMMER CONFERENCE AT ECCO

22 | 2019 ALL-STATE HONOR CHOIRS by molly peters

24 | VISION FOR THE FUTURE scholarship fund donors

26 | NEWS AND NOTES happenings from around the state

28 | TOP FIVE: COMMUNITY CHOIRS by jenny bent

31 | TOP FIVE: TWO-YEAR COLLEGE CHOIRS by arlie langager Summer’s almost here! Molly Peters and 32 | TOP FIVE: CONTEMPORARY COMMERCIAL members of The West Ranch High School by william zinn CHoir got a head start on their beach time with a February trip to Honolulu. 37 | TOP FIVE: ETHNIC & MULTICULTURAL by angel vázquez-ramos

34 | TOP FIVE: MUSIC IN WORSHIP by ruben valenzuela

38 | CALIFORNIA ACDA DIRECTORY

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 3 CANTATE Volume 31, Number 2 WHEREAS, Official publication of the the human spirit is elevated to a California Choral Directors broader understanding of itself Association, an Affiliate of through study and performance in the American Choral the aesthetic arts, and Directors Association WHEREAS, Eliza Rubenstein, editor serious cutbacks in funding and support have steadily eroded state [email protected] institutions and their programs throughout our country, GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS BE IT RESOLVED We welcome and encourage CCDA members that all citizens of the United to contribute articles, announcements, music and States actively voice their affirmative book reviews, job vacancy listings, photographs, and collective support for necessary and other items of interest to Cantate! funding at the local, state, and national Please send queries and article ideas to levels of education and government, to ensure the survival of arts programs [email protected]. You are also welcome to submit completed articles, but please for this and future generations. note that not all articles received will be published. California Choral Directors Association Deadlines for publication are as follows: empowers choral musicians to August 15 (Fall issue); November 1 create transformative experiences for (Winter issue); March 1 (Spring issue). California’s diverse communities. The editor reserves the right to edit all submissions. CCDA is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt corporation and an affiliate of the American Choral Directors Association. ADVERTISING IN CANTATE Please visit our website (www.acdacal.org) or e-mail us at [email protected] for UPCOMING EVENTS complete information on advertising in Cantate, including rates, deadlines, and graphics specifications. CCDA Summer Conference at ECCO Advertisements are subject to editorial approval. July 21-24, 2019 (Oakhurst)

On the cover: Members of the 2019 All-State TTBB choir perform at the CCDA State Conference in San Jose. Photo by Robyn Peters.

4 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association From The president’s pen: THE MIKE ISTAD METHOD

recently returned from our superb CCDA search committee that would hire a colleague I State Conference in San Jose. Our to direct CSUF’s choral music education conference planner, Kristina Nakagawa, program. I knew this position was critical organized an incredible event that perfectly to the success of our choral program, and balanced education with inspiration, and felt completely unprepared for the task and performance with edification. Thanks to her intimidated by the process. What did I know Robert Istad is in his astute leadership and her brilliant penchant about hiring a colleague? I decided to consult for programming, I walked away from the the wisest person I know: my Dad. second season as the experience feeling professionally renewed. I Mike Istad has had a very successful career Artistic Director of found it an absolute thrill to watch my beloved as a regional sales manager for the specialized friends and colleagues shine in performances cutting tool industry in the Midwest, and he’s Pacific Chorale. Istad with their choirs and in brilliant interest gleaned a lifetime of valuable wisdom from is also Professor of sessions. Congratulations to all of you! his varied experiences. He understands how Our all-state honor choirs performed to work with people, get people to like him, Music and Director with impeccable aplomb, and I found and maximize the talents of his employees. of Choral Studies it a joy to witness California’s young When I called him, he quickly exclaimed (in peopled emboldened and shining in their the thick Chicago accent I cherish), “Hiring a at California State performances. We all lift up Molly Peters great person? That’s easy!” University, Fullerton, and her team of caring volunteers for crafting Before I could contradict him, he offered

where he was this life-changing experience for our students. this fabulous piece of advice: “Listen, Rob, I’d like to extend a special note of thanks to most people are intimidated by talent, and recognized as CSUF’s Carolyn Taraoka-Brady for serving (again!) make personnel decisions they believe will 2016 Outstanding as the performance site coordinator. She make themselves appear the most competent embraces this thankless position, and I in the company. They consistently make poor Professor of the love watching her serve as “choir Mom,” hiring moves based on their own insecurities. Year. He is the former “conductor-whisperer,” and “patron-services In a nutshell, B people hire C people, while professional” simultaneously. A people hire A+ people. You decide who Artistic Director of When a complicated event such as this you want to be in your profession, and your Long Beach Camerata unfolds with so much grace, we know a decision will be easy.” team of amazing volunteers has tended to it Singers and Long lovingly. Thank you to our board members, hat moment was an inspiration that I’ve Beach Bach Festival. our helpful constituents, and our priceless Theld on to forever. His advice brought Executive Administrator, Dr. Kathleen the brilliant Dr. Christopher Peterson into He is Dean of Chorus Preston, for your stewardship of CCDA’s my life. The moment I watched Chris teach, America’s Academy for members and programs. heard the way he interacted with students and I had a personal epiphany while watching colleagues, and watched him in rehearsal, I Conductors, and has my friend and colleague Dr. Chris Peterson knew he was the A+ person for whom we prepared choruses for teach in San Jose. His session on creating had been searching. He was a master teacher, a student-centered learning environment in and his pedagogy was something I aspired a number of America’s our classrooms was superb, and the material to someday model. I am still so grateful he finest conductors and inspired me to imagine new methods I could agreed to join me on our shared journey, and orchestras. use to connect my professional singers to our I treasure every day we are granted to guide repertoire. I learn from Chris every day, and our students together. I’m grateful to have his leadership in my life. In similar fashion, I recently had the My experience watching him teach in opportunity to invite Mr. Andrew Brown to San Jose caused me to reflect upon the join me as President and C.E.O. of Pacific beginning of our eleven-year partnership Chorale. Andrew served for over two decades at Cal State Fullerton. Twelve years ago, I as Chief Operating Officer of the Los was a newly hired, tenure-track professor at Angeles Master Chorale, and he knows far CSUF. Immediately, I was asked to chair a more about the professional choral business

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 5 than I do. Andy is an A+ person. I look forward to learning from and collaborating with him to create the model community-centered, professional symphony chorus of the future.

inally, I used Mike Istad’s wisdom when I assembled Earn your MA in Fthe team that serves on the CCDA Board of Music Education Directors under my leadership. Each person I invited to serve possesses unique superpowers that I aspire in Three Summers to embody. Every board member is a self-motivated individual who has expended copious amounts of time, talent, and resources to make our CCDA family stronger, csu.sjsu.edu/summer-masters more effective, and more meaningful to all of us. I thank them from the bottom of my heart, and extend to them my most sincere admiration. Under our shared brain-trust, we have finalized a mission statement, vision statement, strategic screen, and strategic plan for the future. We have expanded and strengthened our programs, and reached out to more completely embrace every member of California’s diverse communities. Molly Peters and I have a little inside joke about “transformative experiences” (just ask us!). The CCDA family has given me the most transformational of all experiences. May our shared vision for future in which all people in California experience the life-changing power of choral music become a reality. Thank you. 

M A K E T H E W O R L D A B E T T E R P L A C E . W E C A N H E L P .

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6 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association From The vice president’s pen: SO LONG FOR JUST A WHILE

fter ten wonderful years, I am stepping job. With the guidance of Lori Marie Rios Adown from the CCDA Board to serve throughout my presidency and beyond, the ACDA Western Region as President-Elect. CCDA Board did some pretty cool things. Two years ago, I wrote that serving as CCDA I joined the CCDA Board because I President was the honor of my lifetime. It wanted to give back as those who had gone was. I joined the Board after six years on before me. What I didn’t fully realize was the the MACCC Board and eight years on the truth St. Francis wrote centuries earlier: It is in Lou De La Rosa is the CMEA Bay Section Board, having first giving that we receive. organized choral and solo and ensemble My service to CCDA has been a labor of past president of CCDA festivals and served as choir manager. I have love, but I have received so much more than and the Director of moved a lot of risers, chairs and stands. I have given. I have had the good fortune Everyone reading this has. to be able to work alongside and learn from Choral and Vocal This is what I want to impart as I leave: incredible choral directors. As a result, my Studies at West Valley You have something valuable to offer to your choirs are better because of the relationships I colleagues. Everyone does. have forged through CCDA. College in Saratoga. Ours is sometimes a very lonely job. We I am a better conductor, a better organizer, He has taught music in may be the only music instructor at our school, a better listener, and hopefully a better friend or the only musician on our worship team. because of the relationships I have made the San Jose area for All of us need the camaraderie of others to through my participation in CCDA activities. more than 30 years, whom we don’t have to explain a thing. We Most of my friends and colleagues are need others around us who can empathize musicians, but my closest and dearest friends including 13 years at and make helpful suggestions in our times are CCDA members. Lincoln High School, of need. Whether it is starting a local choral festival, organizing a TGIF for fellow music oody Allen once said that 80 percent of a visual and performing teachers to get to know one another, or hosting Wlife is showing up. arts school. He has an ecumenical potluck with local church We presently have about 1300 members choir directors, you have the ability to make a in CCDA. Perhaps 500 members participate served his peers through difference outside of your rehearsal room. in the two regional conferences, the Summer numerous professional My service started unintentionally. I was Conference at ECCO, and the CCDA State attending a solo and ensemble festival as a Conference and All-State Honor Choirs. organizations. Lou feels young teacher and the organizer looked wiped That means about 800 of you, or 60% lucky to be married to out. I asked her if there was anything I could of the membership, experience CCDA do for her, thinking she could use some coffee. vicariously. You’re not showing up, and you Mary and is proud to be Instead, she asked me to host the following are missing out on so much! the father of Christine, year’s festival. So I did. Little did I know, it I strongly encourage you to show up at was the best thing I could have done for me. more CCDA activities. Once you do, you may Katherine, and Emily. He When I joined CCDA, Travis Rogers was realize that you have something to offer outside enjoys woodworking, president. His meetings were always briskly of your rehearsal. When you start giving, you paced, and we flew through most topics to too will receive...and so will your singers. loathes plumbing repairs, allow for discussion of important issues facing I hope that you will choose to serve. and is a die-hard fan of the organization. I remember thinking what But most of all, I hope you simply show a daunting task it would be to run a meeting, up, starting with the Summer Conference the 2010, 2012, and and to allow a room of eager, opinionated at ECCO, the Fall Regional Conferences, 2014 World Champion choral directors (is there any other kind?) to the 5th Annual CCDA State Conference have their say without belaboring a point. at CASMEC, and/or the ACDA Western San Francisco Giants. Over time, through the presidency of Jon Region Conference. Whichever it is, I’ll be Talberg, I began to believe that perhaps I had looking for you! something to offer, and that I could handle that Thank you for the chance to serve. 

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 7 letter from the editor: KITTENS AND RAINBOWS

y partner of eleven years, Julie, spends and self-harm, as well as the factors that help Ma couple of nights each week singing prevent and treat them. Vets have formed in local choirs, but by profession she’s a online groups to provide mutual support for veterinarian—a boarded internal medicine one another’s mental and emotional health. specialist who works in a high-intensity, Veterinary students, interns, and residents 24-hour emergency and specialty hospital. It’s learn strategies for preserving their own

Eliza Rubenstein is the a job filled with the waggiest of happy endings wellbeing as they’re learning how to treat pets’ and the most crushing of losses, the kindest illnesses and injuries. Director of Choral and most devoted pet owners and the angriest We don’t have to wait for an epidemic and Vocal Activities at and most difficult ones. in order to take the same measures in our And though most people don’t realize and own field, though most of us have probably Orange Coast College, wouldn’t guess it, it’s also a job with one of already lost one or more colleagues, students, and the Artistic the highest suicide rates of any profession. or friends to suicide, and we know many That statistic makes a sad sort of sense others who struggle with depression. Several Director of the when you consider it. The veterinary field times a year, whether or not any event has Orange County attracts sensitive, compassionate souls, and the prompted it, I speak with my college students day-to-day emotional landscape is rugged and about suicide and the feelings of hopelessness Women’s Chorus taxing. Pet owners turn to their vets for their that portend it, because demystification is and the Long Beach own psychological support as well as for their an important weapon against suicide and animals’ medical needs. Observers outside suicidality; hopelessness is isolating, and Chorale & Chamber the profession don’t always understand its desperation feels unique even when it’s not. Orchestra. She demands, picturing days filled with puppies Every time we have the conversation, two or holds degrees from and kittens rather than anxiety and exhaustion. three students confide in me afterward that The average veterinarian carries a staggering they’ve been wrestling with thoughts of self- Oberlin College and amount of student loan debt through decades destruction. We talk, and sometimes we walk UC-Irvine, and she of his or her career, and even years of hard together to the campus counseling center, and work and long hours may not suffice to get out sometimes my dog provides a little pet therapy is a former animal from under it. And easy access to euthanasia to help get through the day. shelter supervisor and supplies can make death seem an appealing We discuss the practical realities, both alternative to the strain and the stress. wonderful and challenging, of life as an artist, the co-author of The last of those factors may not apply to and of life as a late millennial in America a book about dog musicians, but the others, with a few tweaks of in 2019. We talk about money and debt, the details, might sound familiar. Our career jealousy and self-doubt. I’m forthright about adoption. Eliza’s family path, too, is one populated by perceptive the work ethic and perseverance that life as includes her partner, people who—in our roles as artists and a musician demands, but I also try not to fetishize obsessive dedication at the expense of Julie Fischer; a yellow teachers—are called upon to do a great deal of uncompensated emotional labor for our health or peace. Labrador named students and choir members. Most of us have And I’m honest about the ups and downs Dayton; and a cat at least one or two friends and family members of my own emotional life as a musician and who don’t understand why we’re ever a teacher, because I know the psychic toll of named Wilbur. She’s unhappy when we just get to sing all the time. scrolling through a Facebook timeline filled passionate about We do it all knowing that we’re unlikely to get with upbeat posts from fellow conductors rich, or even feel entirely financially secure. during a difficult week. I know the feeling that grammar, Thai food, I must not be doing it right if everyone else is photography, and the here’s a silver lining to the frightening happy and grateful all the time, and that’s a Tsuicide epidemic in the veterinary world: trap I can help ward my students away from. St. Louis Cardinals. For the first time, they’re talking about It probably won’t be enough, because it—really talking about it, with emotional suicide prevention, like music, isn’t an exact candor and careful data-driven research into science. Like music, though, it’s an art the contributing factors that drive depression grounded in empathy, honesty, and love. 

8 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association Have you heard what’s happening at Orange Coast College?

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Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 9 Singing seniors: Healthy, happy singing for the older adults in your choir

lder adults can bring a wealth of experience, wisdom, and grace to our ensembles. Along Owith these, they bring their older bodies and voices. And while the older adult voice is not the same instrument as the one the singer enjoyed in their younger years, it is simply not true that older adults should accept all voice changes as inevitable. Choral directors can do much to keep their “chronologically gifted” singers performing at a high level for many years. Choir directors typically are most aware of the physical changes that singers undergo as they age, because these changes have effects that we can hear in rehearsal: loss of vocal range, change in vibrato rate or size, loss of breath control, decreased endurance, pitch inaccuracies, breathiness, changes in loudness, and so on. Some of these physical changes include muscle wasting and related changes in balance, posture, and coordination; reduced vital capacity in the lungs; and stiffening, thinning and deterioration of the vocal folds, which can cause the vocal folds to bow. Bowed vocal folds do not close as strongly, which leads to breathiness, hoarseness, and vocal strain. Hearing loss, side effects from medications, and other health problems are also factors for some older adults. The good news is that many of these changes can be halted or even reversed with regular physical and vocal exercise. Otolaryngologist Robert T. Sataloff notes, “The bodily changes characteristic of aging are not unique. In many ways, they are identical to those seen in disease and in disuse such as prolonged bed rest or immobilization of a limb. In particular, muscle disuse causes loss of muscle fibers indistinguishable from that seen with advanced age. Exercise avoids or reverses many of these changes in the young, and it appears to have the same effect when the changes are caused by aging.”1 The choir director can help here by encouraging singers to get regular exercise, perhaps helping to set up daytime walking groups for choir members, for example. Inviting a physical therapist or trainer to speak to the group may also be helpful, since many older singers, especially women, are unaware of the benefits of strength training. Such a professional can lead the whole group in simple exercises and direct individuals to other appropriate resources. Over time, singers’ increased physical strength, stamina, and flexibility can result in improved breath

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By Nicole Aldrich

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 11 management and vocal endurance, allowing greater Waiting for silence in the room before speaking is control of pitch, loudness, vibrato size and rate, and very important. If the final chord is still ringing in the tone quality. room, or if someone is coughing, it will be difficult for Directors should also encourage their singers to seek a singer with hearing loss to hear what the director out voice lessons or vocal therapy. Several studies have is saying. Because many people with high-frequency investigated vocal exercises to improve voice quality in hearing loss may read lips to help them differentiate the elderly. Some of these studies focused on improving between consonants, the director should only speak speech quality and efficiency, but since they address the with their head up, never looking down at the piano. same age-related physical changes, older singers who Finally, if hearing loss has disrupted a singer’s sense of try them may find improvement in their singing voices, intonation, the director can work with them one-on-one too. to develop a physical sense of the vibrations that come Authors Juliana Godoy, Kelly Silverio, and Alcione from a well-matched pitch.3 Brasolotto saw vocal improvements in their subjects Older adults often assume that changes in their using the following exercises: health are an inevitable sign of aging. However, some of these changes could point to a treatable health • Tongue or lip trills with continuous phonation problem, such as hypothyroidism or gastroesophageal • Nasal sounds such as /m/ or /n/, either sustained or reflux disease (both very common in the elderly). repeated for short durations These can affect the singing voice, as can medication side effects such as dry mouth and tremor. Choir • Vocal glides using tongue or lip trills, nasals directors should encourage singers to talk to their consonants, or /z/) doctors about these problems. A change of medication • Maximum phonation time exercise: the singer or other new treatment regimen could be all that it sustains a vowel, “louder than normal, maintaining takes to return the voice to normal. adequate mouth opening, without excessive muscular Depression is another illness that often goes under- effort, controlling the vocal quality throughout the diagnosed in older adults and can affect singers’ phonation” participation in choir. The Centers for Disease Control • Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises—voicing bubbles and Prevention note that the elderly are at greater risk through a tube into one to two centimeters of water for depression, yet “healthcare providers may mistake an older adult’s symptoms of depression as just a • Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises with the tube in natural reaction to illness or the life changes that may 10cm of water2 occur as we age, and therefore not see the depression as something to be treated. Older adults themselves Participants followed this regimen either two or often share this belief and do not seek help because four times per week, for four weeks. At the end of they don’t understand that they could feel better with the four-week period, both groups reported improved appropriate treatment.”4 Directors should watch for vocal quality and quality of life immediately following common signs of depression in their singers and urge the therapy and one month later. Those who did the them to find the help they need. exercises four times per week also experienced reduced Even older adults without depression may vocal fold bowing immediately after the four-week experience loneliness, increased isolation, and grief. A experimental period. Presumably, this improvement choir director can help them stay connected to other would be maintained with consistent exercise. choir members, perhaps by arranging outings as a group or including time for coffee and chatting before ince people experience different bodily changes rehearsal. Singers who no longer drive, or only drive Sas they age, directors should be attentive to their during the day, might need the director’s assistance physical needs in rehearsal. Some prefer to sit most of arranging rides to and from rehearsal. Simple gestures the time; others feel better if they stand occasionally. such as birthday cards or occasional phone calls can go Some are able to participate in typical warmup a long way toward easing loneliness and sadness. stretches, but others have limited range of motion. In addition to these challenging emotions, people Older adults tend to need better lighting to read, may also experience increased anxiety and frustration and those with hearing loss may appreciate reduced as their physical and mental abilities change with age. background noise where possible. They may make more mistakes, have more trouble There are other ways directors can adapt their remembering musical instructions and details from one rehearsal techniques to help singers with hearing loss. rehearsal to the next, and need more time to process

12 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association the director’s comments in rehearsal. The director accessible parts. should make it clear in both word and behavior that Even with all these tools, there may come a time it’s perfectly fine to make mistakes and ask questions when an older singer puts away their choir folder for in rehearsal. Being very precise and taking one’s time good. Some singers will decide this on their own; when giving instructions about where to go in the score others will retire only after a difficult conversation with next is also useful to singers of all ages (“page 6… their director. When this happens depends on the second system…third measure…beat 2”). Directors goals of your group: a church choir or unauditioned can also spend some of their own score-study time community choir may have more room for a voice in anticipating problems their singers might have, so that decline than a semi-professional choir, for example. they have solutions at the ready. Some singers are relieved to stop singing, while others experience very real grief, embarrassment, and other orking methodically in rehearsals is very helpful complex emotions. It can be helpful for the director Wto singers who are experiencing age-related to find ways for the retiring singer to stay involved changes in speed of recall or processing. Focusing on with the group, perhaps serving as librarian, host of a limited number of details at a time is important. It pre-rehearsal coffee hour, ticket seller, or organizer of may be too much to ask these singers to try to improve social activities. the cutoffs, the diction, the dynamics, and the balance Choral conductors are fortunate to have a variety of in the same run-through. After the choir works on tools to assist a singer in working through the physical, these goals separately for some time, though, some of mental, and emotional changes of aging. With the help the details may be automated enough that they do not of the director, and with a little work, it is possible for require the singer to dedicate conscious attention to older adults to participate in choir, sharing their voices, them. By structuring rehearsals in this way, the director their experiences, and all the other gifts they bring, for can help reduce frustration and anxiety in their older many years.  choir members. Because of memory changes that are a part of even 1 Robert T. Sataloff et al, “The Aging Adult Voice,” Journal of healthy aging, directors may find that their singers need Voice 11, no. 2 (1997), 157. more repetition, both within a single rehearsal and over 2 Juliana Godoy, Kelly Silverio, and Alcione Brasolotto, the entire course of preparing for performance. For “Effectiveness of Vocal Therapy for the Elderly When Applying the church choir director, this is especially challenging, Conventional and Intensive Approaches: A Randomized since those performances come every week! These Clinical Trial,” Journal of Voice (in press). directors may wish to mix some easier repertoire in with 3 Brenda Smith and Robert T. Sataloff, Choral Pedagogy and the the more difficult pieces, and structure their long-term Older Singer (San Diego: Plural Publishing, 2012), 44. rehearsal plans to allow weeks or even months to learn 4 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Depression,” the most challenging music. https://www.cdc.gov/aging/mentalhealth/depression.htm, accessed It may also be helpful to provide aging singers with 2/15/2019. recordings to practice with at home. Even those who have always been excellent music-readers may find them helpful as their memory retrieval slows down. Nicole Aldrich is Director of Having opportunities to recall the music between Choral Activities at Washington rehearsals can keep singers from becoming discouraged University in St. Louis. Before or apprehensive. her doctoral studies at the Repertoire selection is also critical when working University of Maryland, she with older adults. Women’s voices generally get lower served as Associate Director as they age, while men’s voices tend to shift a little of Choral Activities at the higher. Choosing music that takes these changes into University of Delaware. She consideration will result in a more satisfying experience has prepared choruses for Helmuth Rilling for all. (Judicious transposing or rescoring can also be and Paul Goodwin, has conducted honor helpful in church settings.) Because aging singers tend choirs in six states, and is a frequent guest to lose vocal stamina, as well, directors should structure clinician and lecturer. In addition, her work their rehearsals to allow periods of rest or relatively easy as a church musician and community choir singing. A director might also decide to feature solo director spans more than two decades. This voices on the most vocally challenging passages of a article is adapted from an interest session piece of music, and have the whole group sing the more given at the 2019 ACDA national conference.

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o artistic project is worth sacrificing your create room for an ambulance to pass. Nmental and physical health. When I’ve reached a mental or physical I’m not talking here about an occasional day breaking point but when no emergency is or even week where you put in long, sleepless carving out a clear path for me, I remind myself hours or order take-out for several meals in a that an ambulance makes its own path. It’s up Dale Trumbore is a Los row in order to meet a deadline. I’m talking to me to find or create the space I need in order Angeles-based composer about how you build mental and physical to rest. It’s my job to prioritize my mental and well-being into your day-to-day creative life. physical well-being, even—especially—when and writer whose music Your mental health, your sanity, and your life that means taking a break from my work. has been performed by are worth more than any performance, any When you’re about to collapse from piece, or any networking opportunity. exhaustion and stress, don’t wait for an external organizations including You can push through bad days in order to event or illness to force you to take a break. get work done; you may even occasionally use No matter how crowded your schedule is, if the Los Angeles your art to work through emotional pain. But you need a break, there is room for one, even Children’s Chorus, creating your art is hard enough on the days you if it’s a small one: a walk around the block, ten don’t have to argue with your mind insisting that minutes of reading to unwind before sleep, or Los Angeles Master your art doesn’t matter or that you don’t matter. watching half of a mindless TV show to give Chorale, Modesto On days where my anxiety is at its peak, the your overwhelmed mind a break. act of sitting down to work feels impossible and Symphony, Pacific insurmountable. My daily routine prioritizes my ometimes, when I’m caught up in the chaos Chorale, Pasadena mental health, because without it, I put myself Sof a looming deadline, I am tempted to stay and my art at risk. up until the early hours of the morning, order Symphony, The Singers, An artistic process will inevitably contain takeout or microwave something frozen for the and VocalEssence. some degree of uncertainty and self-doubt. fourth night in a row, and just keep writing. In Given that those factors already complicate the these moments, now, I gently remind myself How to Go On, act of making art, shouldn’t we do all we can to that the notes on the page are just notes. They Choral Arts Initiative’s make the rest of our process as anxiety-free as are ink on a page, dots on a screen, or small possible? Having experienced both the frantic, scribbles of pencil. album of Trumbore’s sleepless, anxious variety of composing and the I am not the notes. The notes are not my choral works, was a kind where I prioritize my health above all else, life; they are part of my life, but they are not my I can report: the second way of living is vastly life. They are not my family. They don’t breathe #4-bestselling Classical preferable in every way. I am not happy all the or need to be fed. They can wait until the next album on iTunes the time, but I take so much more pleasure in the morning or even the next week. I am always life I’m living. more important than the notes I am writing, week of its release. You are more than what you do, and you even when it feels like the notes are the most Hear Dale’s music at are more than your career. If you need help for important part in my life. anxiety or depression, seek out that help. If you When I’ve given my mind and my body daletrumbore.com. need to ask a friend for advice or a collaborator ample time to rest, my work improves. Every for an extension on your deadline, ask them. part of my life functions better when I’ve slept Your collaborators—fellow humans—will well, exercised gently, and spent part of my day understand, and if they don’t, they haven’t yet away from my work. Whenever your mind or realized the simple truth that it’s hard to make your body desperately needs a break, the work art at all when your health desperately needs can wait. The notes are just notes. Your work your attention. will be waiting for you whenever you’re ready to I think of chaotic events like illness or a return.  family emergency as an ambulance cutting a path through my life. No matter how Excerpted from Dale’s book Staying Composed: congested a street is, there is always room for an Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within A ambulance; there is always space for everyone Creative Life, available June 4, 2019. on a road to work together, move over, and

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18 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association SEEN & HEARD Top: Members of the Oakland Youth Chorus (La Nell Martin, Artistic Director) are moved by the music in a recent performance (photo by Jim Norrena); center: Modesto High School and Johansen High School Choirs enjoy a day of singing and friendship at the CSU Stanislaus Central Valley Choral Festival; bottom: everyone was welcome at the San Diego Sings! choral festival at Balboa Park in March (photo by Gary Payne Photography). Send your best photos of your choir’s activites— musical or extra-musical!— to cantate.editor@gmail. com if you’d like them to be considered for publication in a future issue!

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’m writing this with the contentedness of the Last but certainly not least, CCDA is fortunate to Ipost-Honor Choir experience—you know, a week have three sponsoring groups this year who provided after the event when you’ve caught up on sleep, over 30 scholarships to deserving All-State students. watched your iPhone videos 1,348 times, returned to Resounding Achord (Kristina Nakagawa), ACFEA work, and finally gotten on top of your to-do list! The Tour Consultants (Hugh Davies), and Perform 2019 Honor Choirs were a central part of the CCDA International (Roland Zuehlke) gave these students State Conference. San Jose State University generously the honor choir experience they deserve by taking a hosted our four performing ensembles for rehearsal financial burden off their families. (thank you, Jeffrey Benson and Kristina Nakagawa!), If your organization is interested in sponsoring any and the concerts were held in the gorgeous St. Joseph number of students (even just one!), please e-mail me Basilica in downtown San Jose. It’s always a treat to at [email protected]. Many of our students see the kids’ faces as they enter the basilica for the grow up in homes where finances are tight, and your exchange concert on Friday night—they are truly sponsorship can be life-changing. Thank you for your awestruck to be singing in such a beautiful venue, and consideration, and we hope you’ll join the growing list all honor groups sounded fantastic in the space! of organizations making our kids’ dreams come true. The students loved all four of our directors: Dr. Until then….see you at Regional Honor Choirs in Rollo Dilworth (Junior High/9th), Dr. Richard Bjella November and All-State next March!  (TTBB), Dr. Giselle Wyers (SATB), and Dr. Kevin Johnson (SSAA). I have received many e-mails from Changes to All-State for 2020 students and parents who stated that the weekend was not just a great musical experience for their students, Most of you know that the CCDA State Choral Conference but also an amazing life opportunity. What an honor to will be re-joining CASMEC in February of 2020. For Honor be part of this community that can provide such trans- Choir participants and teachers: formative experiences for students and parents (and, I • The audition process will be the same, and there will be no would venture to say our guest conductors as well). changes to Regional Honor Choir. We plan to use the online Thank you to the teachers who volunteered to form for the Central and Coastal regions again. help at registration and throughout the weekend, • We are changing the model of how students are housed and especially those who did part checks. Amanda Isaac fed at All State to match CBDA/CODA. All students—even did a fantastic job with the junior high honor choir, local students—will be required to stay in our block of hotel and I look forward to our partnership in the future. rooms (in quads). We will have chaperones with them at all Neither Amanda nor I could have done anything times. We will also provide all meals for students. This means without our amazing choir managers, who were with that the price for participation will appear to be higher than the our students and directors all weekend long: Kyle Ball, past, but keep in mind that everything is provided for them in Matthew Netto, and Tina Peterson. I owe a huge debt the cost: hotel, meals, t-shirts, music, and transportation. Cost TBD; estimate between $500-$600. of gratitude to Karen Garrett, who stepped in with her expertise to manage on Thursday when one of • Students will attend an orientation before the first rehearsal. our managers fell ill. Our collaborative pianists were Behavior will be enforced by chaperones, and any student all fantastic, and a special shout-out goes to Heather not adhering to the behavior contract (including absences or Bishop, who not only accompanied the SSAA choir, tardies for rehearsals) will be sent home by CCDA. but also prepared her own students for multiple honor • For your advance planning, we will need teacher volunteers choirs. To all of our teachers who sent students to to chaperone. Chaperones will have their rooms (doubles), All-State this year: thank you for your hard work in meals, and conference registration covered. If you are interested getting your students prepared for the weekend. It was in being a chaperone, please email me at mepeters79@ wonderful to see so many of you out and about at the gmail.com. All chaperones must be certificated teachers who conference, rehearsals, and concerts. (Extra thanks to are fingerprinted/Livescanned. Jennifer Perier, who was exiting the Marriott as I was If you have any questions about CASMEC and Honor Choir entering, on her way to Target to buy black dress shoes in 2020, please e-mail me at honorchoir.ca.allstate@gmail. for one of her singers who forgot to pack them!) com. Thank you!

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 23 Vision for the Future Scholarship Fund Donors

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CENTRAL COAST REGION Normandy, the text of which was written Network) Conference. by a survivor of the 1944 battle, will Updates will be printed in our next issue. be sung at the American Cemetery on Congratulations to the University of If you have news you would like to share, Normandy Beach (France) on July 4, Redlands Chapel Singers (Nicholle please contact Carolyn Teraoka-Brady at 2019, to celebrate the 75th anniversary Andrews, director) for qualifying [email protected]! of D-Day. This spring Ron has also as semi-finalists for 2018-2019 The begun teaching World Music for the American Prize in Choral Performance - CENTRAL REGION Inmate Scholars Program at Kern Valley College/University division! State Prison. Kudos to Ron, who has Abigail Sorber of El Diamonte High been busy since retiring from Bakersfield In February, Disney California School in Visalia is the recipient of the College in 2013. Adventure celebrated Black History second annual Dr. Randi Carp Choral Month with the 10th Anniversary of Heidi Webb is the new choral director Music Education Scholarship presented “Celebrate Gospel,” where 15 guest at Porterville HS, following longtime by CMEA. John M. Sorber, choral gospel choirs from across Southern CCDA member Aaron Snell, who has director at Sequoia College in Visalia, California performed in Stage 17 is her proud father and recipient of the moved to Idaho with his family. throughout the day. CMEA Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett Choral Educator Award at the Jack Bertrand of North High School same ceremony. in Bakersfield reports that an honor vocal FAR SOUTH REGION jazz ensemble has been initiated in Kern Shawn Reifschneider, choir County. Christine Guter served as In February the San Diego Master director at San Mateo and Burlingame clinician when the singers participated in Chorale presented its third annual High High Schools, was guest clinician for the Bakersfield Jazz Festival in April. School Honor Choir featuring more the annual Real Men Sing event in than one-hundred high school singers Modesto, hosted by Jennifer Perier at SOUTHERN REGION from the greater San Diego area. The Johansen High School. Polly Vasché singers, represented twenty different high served as guest choral conductor for In November, Christopher Peterson schools, were given a day-long workshop the 70th annual Stairway of the Stars was recognized by the Faculty of CSU rehearsal with SDMC music director concert in March, which featured K-12 Fullerton for Scholarly & Creative John Russell. The day culminated honor ensembles from Santa Monica and Activity, and Tina Peterson was in a collaborative performance with the Malibu schools. awarded Teacher of the Year at Irvine members of SDMC at the First United High School for the 2018-2019 school Methodist Church of San Diego. The annual Fall Sing for area high year. Congratulations! school choirs took place at Modesto Common Ground Voices/La Frontera Junior College and was organized by Eric Whitacre and the Riverside City brings together a diverse group of artists MJC choral director Cathryn Tortell. College Chamber Singers (John Byun, in a community music and peace- Thirteen choirs sang for and supported director) were featured at The NAMM building project situated at the border one another, including MJC and CSU (National Association for Music of Mexico and the United States. The Stanislaus. Merchants) Foundation Grand Rally international ensemble, led by Emilie for Music Education held in Anaheim, Amrein and André de Quadros, Julie Carter, soprano and conductor comprises musicians from across Mexico of Fresno’s Soli Deo Gloria community CA in January 2019, performing “Cloudburst” and “Fly to Paradise.” and the United States, including many ensemble, presented a solo recital as part from the greater trans-border region. of the Pacific Artist Series at Fresno Also in Janaury, Valencia High School’s During their inaugural week-long Pacific College, where Julie also serves residency, Common Ground Voices / La on the faculty. Two N Four Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Christine Tavares-Mocha, director), Frontera considered forced migration, identity, place, belonging, and shared Ron Kean’s recent and acclaimed and Los Angeles-based professional work, The Journey of Harriet Tubman, pop-jazz vocal group M-pact were humanity in this politically charged has been performed at prestigious invited vocal jazz ensembles featured and historically contested region. Their venues nationwide. His composition at this year’s JEN (Jazz Education concert program, entitled “Sueños, Visiones: Another Possible World,”

26 • Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 California Choral Directors Association featured choral works by Mexican and American mastered a demanding program in just three days. The inaugural composers and incorporated improvisation, movement, choir was led by Gaw Vang Williams, the director of vocal and narration into an immersive concert experience. jazz from Sacramento State University. (Gaw and her vocal jazz During their week together, CGV La Frontera ensembles have also been traveling all over to represent Sac State presented a workshop with Ensamble Redes 2025 at events including CASMEC, the National ACDA Convention, at Centro de Artes Musicales in Tijuana, B.C, and and the CCDA State conference!) participated in the Western Region of Campus Compact Conference, “Beyond Borders” at the University of San BAY AREA Diego. In January, JAZZ-ology of Contra Costa College (Dr. In July, SACRA/PROFANA will hold their annual Stephanie Austin, director) was selected to perform at the Summer Choral Intensive on the campus of Point Loma 2019 Jazz Education Network National Conference. Nazarene University co-lead by Dr. Keith Pedersen and Juan Carlos Acosta. The camp is open to all rising Many choral jazz educators and students gathered to see The 6th-12th graders. Real Group in concert on Feb 25 in San Jose State University’s Hammer Theatre. The ensemble stayed another day to provide master classes for vocal jazz groups from West Valley, SJSU, The Choral Consortium of San Diego presented “San  Diego Sings! Festival 2019” on March 23, 2019 at Skyline College, and Saint Mary’s College of California. the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, featuring 22 diverse choirs from all over San Diego County. Thanks to our Regional Representatives (Alissa Aune, Julie Ford, Each choir performed its own set and all 1000 singers Polly Vasché, Carolyn Teraoka-Brady, Stacey Kikkawa, and John gathered for a massed choir sing conducted by Arlie Russell) for collecting and sharing news from their areas! Send your Langager. San Diego Civic Organist Raul Prieto news to your regional representative if you’d like to be included in a Ramirez accompanied on the Spreckels Organ, the future issue. world’s largest pipe organ in a fully outdoor venue.

After a 16-year hiatus, San Diego USD brought back its District Honor Choral Concert, coordinated by Laura Williams of the VAPA Department, in March. Over 120 students in grades 4-12 participated in one of three choirs directed by Sally Husch Dean (North Coast Singers), Juan Carlos Acosta (Sacra/ Profana), and Kathleen Hansen (San Diego Chorus and San Diego Women’s Chorus).

NORTHERN REGION

The North State was represented by Gavin Spencer and the Shasta High School Madrigal Choir at the 4th Annual CCDA State Conference in San Jose. Their performance in St. Joseph’s Basilica was part of the event’s opening concert.

The Northern California Band and Choral Directors Association presented their annual honor choir at Sonoma State University in February. The 160-voice choir is a unique representation of Northern California, as each school involved can send one or two quartets to create the choir. This allows for many of our small, rural schools with to participate in an honor choir experience that might be bigger than their entire school! This year’s choir was led by Christopher Peterson.

This year also marked the creation of the first NorCal Honor Jazz Choir at the same event. Students auditioned with the same repertoire as the CAJ All-State Honor Jazz Choir, and a vocal jazz choir of fourteen students

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 27 Top Five for your Choir: COMMUNITY CHOIRS

oncert programming requires numerous is vocally trained and a solid musician. The Cconsiderations including voicing, budget, final movement, “Let All the World in Ev’ry time, and performance venue. When a large Corner Sing,” can easily stand alone (great work is not an option, finding the perfect concert closer!) and does not require a soloist. concert “centerpiece” can be a challenge. The following list of short works provides repertoire W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Jenny Bent is Associate possibilities that are musically substantive, yet Misericordias Domini, KV 222 Professor and Director do not require large-scale performance forces. SATB and string quartet or organ Baerenreiter-Verlag BA04789 of Choral Activities Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) or CPDL #35445 at Sonoma State Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Fiery and energetic, Misericordias Domini is SATB and chamber orchestra University, Choral an example of one of Mozart’s early gems. EC Schirmer Music Co1643 Approximately six minutes in length, this piece Director of the Santa Simply put, I love Brahms….can’t get provides substantive musical challenge and a Rosa Symphony, enough of him. I was thrilled to discover the perfect opportunity to teach Classical harmonic chamber orchestration now available for the function and style. and manager or Schicksalslied. His setting of the first half of Chanticleer’s summer Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem, which describes Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) the ethereal world which our dearly departed Dark Night of the Soul program, Chanticleer now inhabit and from which they now lovingly SSAATTBB with string quartet and piano in Sonoma. Recipient of watch over humanity, is Brahms at his best. Walton Music WW1463 the 2019 CMEA Bay The second half, with its jarring and fiery My choir went nuts for this piece! They found tempo, rootless diminished seventh chord deep modern relevance to the text by16th- Section Outstanding accompaniment, and occasionally elusive century Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross, Choral Educator downbeats, provides the perfect musical and Gjeilo’s marriage of vocal melody and backdrop for the text now describing the Award, Dr. Bent enjoys orchestration is sheer perfection. Gjeilo is a unknown and frightening doom of mere pianist, and, like many of his works, “Dark adjudicating and guest mortals subject to the perilous hand of fate. Night of the Soul” heavily features that Approximately seventeen minutes in length, instrument. conducting. From Schicksalslied is a perfect option if you are 2007-2014, Dr. Bent in the mood for Brahms, yet do not have the Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) means or desire to program his Requiem. hosted the radio show Sinfonia Sacra (Christmas Cantata) SATB, double brass choir or brass choir The Choir Loft on Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and organ Five Mystical Songs KRCB-FM, the Sonoma Alphonse Leduc/Robert King Inc. 48185177 SATB, string quartet and piano/organ County NPR affiliate. or organ This classic, contemporary work spans three EC Schirmer Music Co. 1.5038 movements and is a choir and audience favorite. Like the Vaughan Williams Five This five-movement composition works well in Mystical Songs, it works well in either the the concert hall or as a special Easter Sunday concert hall or church setting, and the final treat for the congregation. The powerful movement can easily stand alone. The choir opening of the first movement, a burst of and audience will be humming the catchy third rousing, gorgeous melody accompanied by movement melody long after the performance! lush instrumentation, perfectly supports the Bonus: If you are looking for a non-Christmas powerful text, “Rise heart, thy Lord is Risen.” themed work of similar length, Pinkham’s Approximately twenty minutes in length, Wedding Cantata (scored for chamber Five Mystical Songs requires a baritone who orchestra) is also stunning. 

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n many community college choirs, our roster Elaine Hagenberg Ican change drastically from semester to A Farewell semester. Maybe we find more than half of our SATB with divisi, unaccompanied singers are new to the ensemble, or the choir Oxford University Press X693 is unexpectedly smaller, or our sections aren’t Expressive melodic lines with lush, tonal balanced. harmonies give this a cappella work rich In those semesters, programming divisi textures that even new singers will enjoy. Dr. Arlie Langager repertoire can seem like a risky strategy, even Hagenberg does a beautiful job of adapting has been the Director with voices that are capable of university Frances Anne Kemble’s poem, “An Entreaty,” transfer-level repertoire. Here are five of Choral Studies at to capture a sense of wistfulness: “....once more suggestions for some challenging yet accom- into the sunny fields/ Oh, let me stray!/And MiraCosta College plishable pieces for SATB divisi. drink the joy that young existence yields/On

since 2008. She holds a bright, cloudless day.” Kemble’s backstory Luca Marenzio (1553-1599), and discussion of her memoir, Journal of a undergraduate and ed. Dennis Shrock Residence on a Georgian Plantation, can Leggiadre ninfe provide a good discussion point, too. graduate degrees from SSATTB a cappella GIA Publications G-8359 the University of Eric William Barnum Calgary and the We sometimes overlook options from the Stars Stand Up in the Air canon of early music for appropriate repertoire SATB divisi with piano University of Texas at for divisi mixed choir. Dennis Shrock has WJMS1116 Austin. Dr. Langager published editions of a few period pieces that This piece has lots of unison or doubled include context for performance practice. passages, offering singers more moments where was the Artistic “Leggiadre ninfe” comes from Il trionfo di singers can power-up their confidence with Director of the Dori, a collection of 29 Italian madrigals by robust vocalization. The piano accompaniment composers including Palestrina and Gabrieli. Calgary Boys’ Choir frequently duplicates singers’ pitches and The texture is lighter than something like helps shape phrases. Barnum’s part writing and the Mount Rheinberger’s “Abendlied” and is not is straightforward, and his use of added tones over-edited with imposed dynamics and Royal Youth Choir, for the divisi means harmonic language is still articulations. The King’s Singers album Il largely intuitive. This piece is a hit with singers and for nearly a Trionfo di Dori provides a great listening and audiences alike. example. decade she directed Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179); Zuzanna Koziej the award-winning arr. Felicia Sandler Ostende mihi University of Calgary Laus Trinitati SATB divisi with soprano solo SSATBB a cappella Vocal Jazz ensembles. Self-published; https://zuzannakoziej. Alliance Music Publications AMP-1005 musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/ Felicia Sandler spins one of Hildegard von Some of the newest choral pieces by emerging Bingen’s antiphons into swirling, overlapping Polish composer, Zuzanna Koziej, are a lines for this ethereal choral arrangement. breath of fresh air with her innovative settings It may be easier for new singers to learn the of Latin texts. (Check out her “Trahe me post linear chant melodies by rote practice than te” and “Deus meus.”) However, the familiar by vertical harmonization, but Sandler uses harmonic language in her setting of “Ostendi a drone in some parts, which can be a good mihi” may be most popular with your singers way to train new ears to stay on a single and audiences. The text is drawn from part of pitch while melodies move around. Sandler’s Song of Songs 2:14 (“Show me your face, let writing works as well with lighter individual me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and voices as with voice majors, and her six-part your face is fair”). A smaller choral ensemble texture offers an opportunity to redistribute can still perform the piece well, and the solo is middle-range voices for better balance.  a lovely feature for college-aged sopranos.

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ike many of us, I have always looked for Arr. Daniel Jackson Lmusical selections that will allow me to Akekho Ofana No Jesu teach implicitly and/or explicitly about the SATB, divisi, solo, and djembe things that I care about the most, my musical Walton Music WW1683 and non-musical values. These five selections This is a widely known traditional African are very different in terms of musical attributes song, sung in many different languages. The and text, but each alludes to universal ideas text for this arrangement is in Zulu (there’s Angel M. Vázquez- like faith, love, and unity. I hope you will try at not a lot of text, and it is easy to learn). Ramos, a native of least one of them! Akekho Ofana No Jesu is a dynamic praise Carolina, Puerto Rico, song that could work well as a concert closer. Stephen Hatfield Daniel Jackson did a wonderful job preserving is Assistant Professor En el Principio the joyful spirit of the original tune. There SATB, solo baritone or mezzo soprano, and Director of is a section that calls for two choirs, but it is percussion and optional string bass optional, meaning that smaller choirs can still Choral and Vocal Boosey & Hawkes 48022671 enjoy performing this arrangement. Studies at California Christopher Borges, former choir director at Bakersfield High School, commissioned Arr. Neil Ginsberg State University, several works for his choirs during his tenure at Hine Ma Tov Bakersfield. He teaches BHS; this is one of them. One of the elements SATB that makes this work appealing to me is its text, Santa Barbara Music Press 286 undergraduate courses which was written as a collaboration between Neil Ginsberg’s setting of this traditional in music education and BHS pianist Alicia Ellsworth, who utilized Hebrew song is very musical and accessible. It input from the students and Hatfield. Sung choral conducting, features well-written vocal lines accompanied in English and Spanish, the text is about by beautiful piano and flute parts. I recently and conducts the becoming one through music, regardless of our programmed this piece for our seasonal University Singers differences. Hatfield writes, “‘En el Principio’ concert, and the students really enjoyed mixes choral counterpoint with a percussive performing it. and Chamber Singers. dance groove I’ve called Middle-East Latin.” The constant meter changes and interesting Before his appointment Robert S. Cohen rhythmic patterns make this piece fun to sing. to CSUB, he served as Spirit of the Winding Water SATB, flute and percussion Director of Choral José Rincón Leapfrog Productions MSRCO1-7 Bullerengue Music Education at SATB Sung in Navajo and influenced by Native Chapman University Third Planet Music American chants, this original work will allow your choir and audience to experience from 2010 to 2015. In his article on music from Colombia, George sounds characteristic of Native American List says that the bullerengue is one of the Dr. Vázquez-Ramos Music. Furthermore, the text has great two traditional dances in the Atlantic coastal meaning and will serve as a springboard for also taught secondary region of Colombia. The bullerengue usually insightful discussions during rehearsal. In includes a solo singer, chorus, and drums. In choral music for Cohen’s performance notes regarding the this composition by José Rincón, traditional text, he says, “The Native American wisdom seven years in Pinellas elements of this dance are implicitly included. and philosophy provided me with the rich County Schools in the For example, the tenor part often sings against awareness of finding the sacred in all things. the soprano and alto parts, keeping with the Thus, the text for ‘Spirit of the Winding Tampa Bay Area. element of solo against chorus. The bass part Water’ captures the spirituality found in maintains a percussiveness similar to what you all things, from purple sunsets to trees and might hear from the actual drums. If you know rocks.” This is a composition that could be this piece and have not programmed it in a programmed at any time of the year.  while, consider performing it again!

Leading the Way Cantate • Vol. 31, No. 3 • Spring 2019 • 35 Top Five for your Choir: MUSIC IN WORSHIP ne of the biggest challenges of leading soaring melody, first offered in unison and then Oa church choir is that a new Sunday is harmonized, with subtle support from the organ. always just around the corner, ready or not. This piece is highly accessible and satisfying to Selecting a mix of repertoire that not only fits perform. the theme of a given Sunday or tradition, but also plays to the strengths of the choir, can be Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), challenging. As music directors, all we can do is ed. John Rutter Ruben Valenzuela offer our very best efforts at any given rehearsal Verleih uns Frieden WoO5 is the founder and or church service. SATB and keyboard or orchestra As I mentioned in a previous Top 5, I Oxford University Press 9780193418158 director of the Bach highly recommend that choirs spend time with Verleih uns Frieden is a chestnut of the choral Collegium San Diego polyphony, even if it isn’t a significant portion of repertoire and offers many opportunities for your choir’s output, or even musical tradition. and the Director of the choir and keyboardist to shine. Originally Polyphonic singing in its purest form teaches scored for chorus and orchestra, it is equally Music and Organist invaluable lessons about autonomous singing, successful in its chorus-and-keyboard version. organizing a hierarchy between dissonance at All Souls’ Episcopal This magical piece is three verses of the same and consonance, and shaping a musical text, culminating in a four-part setting that Church, San Diego. line—democratic music making at it best! Each elegantly dissipates into the final cadence. He has led the BCSD of the pieces below displays a clear sense of contrapuntal writing, offering singers many William Cutter in numerous Southern of the same pedagogical tools. The repertoire Little Lamb California premieres of listed below can easily work in diverse contexts SATB a cappella and traditions, and within the musical resources Galaxy Music Corporation: EC.1.3144 Historically Informed of an established church choral program. Among his many duties, Cutter is Director of Performances of music Philip W.J. Stopford (b. 1977) Choral Program at the Massachusetts Institute from the Renaissance, O Thou who camest from above of Technology where he is conductor of the Baroque, and early SATB and organ M.I.T Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus. Morning Star Music Publishers 50-5209 Cutter’s setting of William Blake’s text is Classical period. rhythmically engaging, playful, and buoyant English composer Philip Stopford presents He is a member of from beginning to end. Although this piece is a beautiful melody, followed by a clear challenging, the difficulties are worth the effort. the Association of development and restatement, all set to his unmistakable contemporary style. The Charles Anglican Musicians, Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968) Wesley text is timeless, and the sparse yet Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A-flat the American beautifully crafted organ part lends its own voice 2-part treble voices and organ in the introduction and in support of the choir. Musicological Society, St. James Music Press (www.sjmp.com) This piece is accessible, highly effective, and the American Bach especially suitable on or during the season of Canadian composer Sarah MacDonald is fast becoming an established name for those Society, the Herbert Pentecost. who work in the English choral tradition. Howells Society, and Eleanor Joanne Daley (b. 1955) MacDonald is Director of Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Director of the Ely the American Guild of Here, O my Lord SATB and organ Cathedral Girls’ Choir. This treble setting of Organists, and he holds Alliance Music AMP0305 the Evening Canticles is accessible and full of a PhD in Musicology contrast with subtle attention to the text, and Canadian composer Eleanor Daley’s music it utilizes the organ as an equal partner to the from Claremont is generally well known, but this particular vocal writing. Highly recommended for those piece often goes under the radar. Daley sets Graduate University. with an established treble choir looking for a Horatius Bonar’s beautiful Eucharistic text to a moderate challenge. 

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