\ of Lutheran Church Musicians in San Diego, California, al1dat He also spent two years at the Berlin Church Music School the 2005 National Pastoral Musicians National Conference in studying conducting, composition and organ. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The National Lutheran Choir is a proud member of ACDA and Chorus America.
David Cherwien is the music director of the National Nittany Valley Children's Choir Lutheran Choir. He serves as editor of the National Lutheran Concordia Singers Choir Series of choral music published by Morningstar Music Publishers. He is a founding member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians and has served in its leadership in a variety of capacities, including as National President from 1993-97. He is a member of ACDA, AGO, Chorus America, and Choristers Guild. In addition, David serves as Cantor at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, a parish known for its passion for creative high quality liturgy and music. Cherwien holds a D.M.A. in organ performance and a M.A. in theory and composition from the University of Minnesota. 111 the Fall of 2000, he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by Augsburg College in Minneapolis, where he studied choral music education and organ performance as an undergraduate. The Nittany Valley Children's Choir in State College, Pennsylvania, was formed' in the Fall of 1997 to provide Penn sylvania's Centre , Come join us at Forming Hearts, Creating Art as we delve into the spiritual County area with a community choir for , ' • 'l and pastoral elements of effective worship leadership, We will explore the personal, children. The program began with twenty , ", spiritual foundation that is vital in the practice of corporate worship. five singers and has grown to 100 singers, :". How does your personal spiritual journey inform what happens on ages five through eighteen, in three differ Sunday morning? How does one effectively pastor as a musician in today's ent choir levels. The Concordia Singers, local congregation? How does the state of your heart shape your artistic expression? are a select ensemble of advanced singers who have demonstrated outstanding sing Come beformed as creative artists in worship leadership ing ability, positive attitude, and com Presenters include: Bruce Lealblad, Paul Salamunovich, mitment to excellence in performance. and Ray and Anne Ortlund Formed in 2000, the Concordia Singers Forming Hearts, Creating Art have performed at the Central Pennsyl Saturday, February 17, 2007 vania Festival of the Arts, the Summer FullerTheological Seminary PA-ACDA Conference, the PMEA State Pasadena, CA Conference, an ACDA Eastern Division For more information go to: www.FredBocklnstitute.org/FormingHearts2007 Conference in New York, and in concert with the State College Choral Society and the American Boychoir. The choir is under the direction of Lou Ann Shafer and is accompanied by Timothy Shafer. 60 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Lou Ann Shafer earned her bachelor's and master's pleted an M.M.E. at the University of Oldahoma and has com degrees in music education from Oberlin College Conserva pleted coursework toward a D.M.A. tory in Ohio. A former music teacher at the elementary, high His groups have performed for state, regional, and national school, and collegiate levels, she currently teaches piano and conventions ofOMEA, OCDA, SWACDA, and ACDA. He is a voice at the Ivory League Studio and serves as choir director at clinician and adjudicator, recently serving as a guest conductor Oakwood Presbyterian Church (PCA) in State College, Penn of the Northwest Arkansas High School Honor Choir and the sylvania. She is active as a guest conductor for children's and Arkansas All-State Children's Chorus. women's choir festivals. She is a composer of choral music for Gonzalez is past president of the Old ahoma Choral Directors the church with works published by Shawnee Press, Lorenz, Association. He has been named to Who's Who Among Ameri and the United Methodist Publishing House. can High School Teachers. He was honored in 2003 by MEA in its national magazine, Teaching Music, as one of the outstanding music educators in the country. He is the 2006 recipient of the state and regional Music Educator of the Year Award for the National Federation of Secondary Schools. He currently serves Norman North High School as the SWACDA R&S Chair for High School Choirs. Chorale
North Crowley High School Women's Chamber Choir
The Chorale at Norman North High School in Norman, Oldahoma, has enjoyed a storied tradition since the school's inception in 1997. It has won the State Sweepstakes every year; won major contests in Texas, Chicago, and Washington D.C.; and has appeared with the Oklahoma Symphony and the Canterbury Choral The North Crowley High School Society. The Norman North Men's Choir appeared at the 2003 (NCHS) Women's Chamber Choir is ACDA National Convention in New York City. a select ensemble of varsity women. The NCHS Varsity Women perform Tony Gonzalez is currently in his tenth year at Norman for special concerts, community North High School in Norman, Oklahoma. He has held high events, and University Interscholastic school teaching positions in Alice and Edinburg, Texas; served League (UlL) and festival competi- as director of choral activities at the University of Science and tions, at which they consistently receive Sweepstalces ratings, Arts of Oklahoma; and is former musical director of the Nor Best in Class, and Best in Festival awards. Almost all of the man Community Choral Society and the Oklahoma Vocal Arts current members of the Women's Chamber Choir performed at Ensemble. the 2006 ACDA Southwest Division Convention in St. Louis, He earned a B.M.E. from Texas A&I University. He com- Missouri. January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 61 Members of the NCHS Women's Chamber Choir are in volved in the school community and in year-round extracur Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church ricular competition and performance opportunities provided by Adult Choir the various fine arts programs at NCHS.
Robyn Hollimon is in her seventh year as choral director at North Crowley High School in Fort Worth, Texas, after having taught 1-12 grades and general and choral music for ten years. Her choirs have earned numerous UIL Sweepstakes Awards, Best in Class, and Best in Festival Awards in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma; have sung in Carnegie Hall; and have toured in New England and Europe. In 1990, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.M.E. from Baylor University and subsequently received her Level I Kodaly certification from the University of North Texas under Jill Trinka. Hollimon is a member ofTMEA, TCDA, ACDA, and Texas The Palmer MA A. She is currently the TMEA Region vn Vocal Chair and Memorial Epis will serve as the Texas All-State Mixed Choir Alto Section copal Church Leader at the 2007 TMEA convention in February. In 2004 she Adult Choir is a was selected for the UIL Sponsor Excellence Award at North non-auditioned, Crowley High School. semi-profes sional ensemble that provides musical leadership for Sundays, feast days, and monthly evensongs. College students com prise the Sacred Arts Interns, who serve in the music program in various ways. The choir has worked with clinicians Richard Marlow (Trinity College) and Timothy Brown (Clare Col lege) at Cambridge University and with Wilma Jensen, Marilyn Keiser, Thomas Foster, and Hilary Apfelstadt. Palmer Choir recently recorded a compact disc, which features the music of David Ashley White and will be available on Gothic Records.
Brady Knapp and Courtney Dani ell-Knapp have been directors of music at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church since 1998. Knapp received undergradu ate degree from Vanderbilt University and his masters and his doctorate in vocal performance from Rice University. He is Artist-in-Residence at the University
62 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 of St. Thomas, where he leads the choirs and teaches private voice. Courtney Daniell-Knapp also received her under graduate degree from Vanderbilt University and received her master's in vocal performance from Rice University. She teaches elementary music at Presbyterian School and serves on the national board of the Royal School of Church Music America. At Palmer Church, they share responsibility for cho ral conducting and administration of the program.
was selected to peliorm at the Texas Parker Elementary School Chorus MEA Convention. Under the direc tion of Marianna Parnas-Simpson its joint performance with the Houston Since 1975, Parker Elementary School in the Houston In Chamber Choir was recently re dependent School District (IS D) has been a magnet school for corded by Houston Public Radio for music dedicated to providing a high quality of music education syndication on National Public Radio. in a multicultural setting. Its excellence has been recognized by the National Grarnmy® Foundation which named it Signature Marianna Parnas-Simpson graduated with a masters Elementary School of the Year in 2002. degree in choral conducting from the St. Petersburg Conser- The Parker Advanced Chorus is comprised of seventy fourth and fifth grade students. In 2003 and 2005, it
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January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 63 vatory in Russia. In 1979, she founded the award winning St. Philippine Chamber Singers Petersburg Girls Choir, Kamerton, which she directed for ten Los Angeles years before coming to the United States in 1990. From 1994-99, Simpson was assistant director and vocal The Philippine Chamber Singers-Los Angeles (PCS-LA) is coach of the Houston Children's Chorus. In 1999, she joined bonded by young, dynamic, and vibrant Filipino music-lovers the faculty of Parker Elementary School, a Houston ISD Magnet who are passionate about artistic choral singing. The singers School for music. Simpson started with thirty students, but now aim to function as Philippine ambassadors of arts and goodwill has over 270 children involved in the choral program:. by promoting quintessential Filipino choral literature. Among In 2005, Simpson was nominated to be Parker Elementary its notable performances in its three years of existence include School Teacher of the Year. She is a founding member of the community outreach appearances at the 8th & 10th Hollywood Houston Chamber Choir and directs the Children's Chorus for Inter-Faith Choral Festival, the 6th & 7th International Choral the Revels Houston. Music Festival in Los Angeles (per Dr. Albert McNeil's invita-
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64 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Plano SeniorHigh School A Cappella.Women's Chorus
tion) in 2004 & 2005 respectively, The Plano Senior High School A and at the 3rd World Festival of Sa Cappella Women's Chorus serves cred Music Los Angeles-a sixteen as the varsity treble ensemble in a day triennial music festival. This is department committed to excellence the ensemble's first ever appearance within a diverse choral curriculum. at an ACDA national convention. The Plano Senior High Choral Depaliment consists of six perform Gordon LeJarde studied piano privately and began his ing ensembles with a membership of professional music career at twelve as a choir ~ccompanis: in a 200 junior and senior students. Members of this organization Methodist church. In 1990, he studied econolUlCS at the Umver annually perform a master works conceli, cluster concerts, a sity of the Philippines. In Los Angeles, he worked as keyboardist holiday madrigal dinner, a coffeehouse concert, and an annual for Rosewood United Methodist Church for thirteen years and spring tour with val'ied performances throughout the DallaslFort for the Glendale First United Methodist Church for two years. Worth Metroplex. , At the Colbum School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles he The A Cappella Women have been named "Best In Class" studied and gave three adjudicated piano recitals in 2000 and at several choral festivals throughout the nation and have re 2001. LeJarde first embarked into choral conducting in 2003 and ceived consistent first division ratings and sweepstakes awards contin~es to develop this extended role thru self-discovery and with the University Interscholastic League competitions, and study, critical observation, and practical experiences. In 2005, the prestigious Grammy Foundation Music Award for Choral he completed a degree in nursing (B.S.N.), cum laude, from Excellence. Califomia State University - Los Angeles. A Registered Nurse (R.N.) at the UCLA Medical Center, he is currently pursuing his Master's Degree in nursing (dual nurse practitioner and clinical Derrick Brookins is currently in his eleventh year of nurse specialist in acute care) at UCLA. teaching choral music education. He joined the faculty of Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas, in the fall of 2003 as the director of choral activities. His choirs consistently receive Sweepstakes at contests and have been named "Best in Class" at several choral festivals throughout the nation. In 2005, the Plano Senior A Cappella Choir performed for the MENC con vention in San Antonio, Texas. Brookins' choirs have recently
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 65 been awarded the Grammy Foundation Music Award for Choral Sam Houston State Excellence. University Chorale Brookins has completed, with honors, both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of North Texas. He studied The Sam Houston State University (SHSU) School of Music and performed with Moses Hogan for nine years. As a vocal involves 180 vocalists studying with twelve voice teachers. performer, Brookins has performed on four continents and for Degree programs include music performance, music education, several European royal families and in venues such as the White music therapy, musical theater, and conducting. House and the Sydney Opera House. The choral program, led by Allen Hightower and James Brookins currently holds a professional membership with Franklin includes the Symphonic Choir, Women's Chorus, TMEA, and serves as the Vocal Chairman of Region 25. He IS Concert Choir, and Chorale. This convention marks the first also a member of TCDA, ACDA, and TMAA and is the R&S performance of the SHSU Chorale at an ACDA national con Chair for MulticulturallEthnic Choral Music for SWACDA. vention.
VOICE /OPERA UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE GRADUATE DEGREE PERFORMANCE DIPLOMA Patty Thom, Chair Sanford Sylvan, Director of Opera Studies William Cutter, Director of Choral Studies
FACULTY: Marilyn Bulli, Kirsten Cairns, William Cotten, Kerry Deal, Libor Dudas, Keely Eastley, Miguel Felipe, Rebecca Folsom, Sara Goldstein, Thomas Gregg, Robert Honeysucker, Kayo Iwama, Victor Jannett, James Javore, Jason McStoots, Brian Moll, Monique Phinney, Flo St. Jean, Mary Saunders, Merrill Shea, Elisabeth Sheldon, Michael Strauss, Allison Voth, Craig Wich, Kathryn Wright
Dr. Karl Paulnack, Director, Music Division
66 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 extensive work with Bev Henson, Donald Neuen, and Paul Salamunovich.
San Marino High School Chamber Singers
posed of fifty-four singers au ditioned from the entire student body. This ensemble performed at the 2003 and 2006 Texas Music Educator's Convention under the direction of Allen Hightower. In May of 2007, the Chorale will perform throughout Italy.
Allen Hightower is professor of music and director of choral and vocal studies at Sam Houston State. During the six years of his leadership, the vocal program has doubled in size The San Marino Chamber Singers and is quickly becoming one of the leading collegiate programs has performed in many invitational in the south. choral festivals throughout California, Hightower is a life-long church musician and strong advo where they have received innumer cate for public school choral music, having taught high school able top honors. choral music in Texas for six years. He is also artistic director In the spring of 2004, the San Ma of the Houston Masterworks Chorus. rino Chamber Singers were invited to Hightower holds degrees from Sam Houston, the Eastman be the guest choir at an Easter Week School of Music, Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy. They also performed Baylor University, in Venice, Florence, and Rome. In the spring of 2005, they and UCLA. He toured Boston and New York. In February 2006, the Chamber was the 1997 win ACDA Quick Tip Singers performed Gabriel Faure's Requiem in Carnegie Hall. ner of the ACDA Graduate Choral Make sure to include San Marino Chamber Singers took first place- at the 2006 Conducting Com your ACDA membership G?lden State Choral Competition, and won the 2006 Verdugo petition and served HIlls A Cappella Competition. In 2007, they will perform in the number on as the first conduct Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria. your membership ing intern with the Los Angeles Master renewal form. Chorale. His stud- This is Howard Cheung's fourth year teaching at San ies have included Marino High School. He received his B.A. and M.A. in piano performance at California State University - Fresno, studying
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 67 under Andreas Werz and Gary Unruh. He enjoys climbing, martial arts, and camping.
SeymolJr Junior High School Eagle Ensemble
The Seymour Junior High Eagle Ensemble is an auditioned group of seventh through ninth grade students. Its repertoire covers musical styles ranging from Renaissance to Contem The Eagle Ensemble has per- porary. formed for the MENC Mul ticultural Symposium and has been award- ed highest honors in several choral festivals. Their most recent award was earned in April 2006 in New York City's Heritage Festival of Gold. The Junior High Eagle Ensemble rep resents a wide variety of student interests. Along with their dedication to the choral program, members also participate in We make you look good! athletics, beta club, cheerleading, band, youth symphony, art, drama, and dance. These diverse experiences encourage an atmosphere of pride, discipline, and tradition.
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68 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 cludes elementary and junior high school choirs, children's New York, and can be heard on recordings such as Festival of church choirs, and children's choir festivals. She has served Nine Lessons and Carols (1998) and Best Loved Hymns (2001), as conductor and clinician for pelformances with MENC, the both with King's for EMI Records. A veteran of numerous stage University of Tennessee School of Music Multicultural Sympo productions including Guys & Dolls and Sweeney Todd, he has sium, the Children's Choral Festival, and Tennessee's All-East appeared on the BBC as a concert bassoonist. Middle School Honors Choir. Professional affiliations include ACDA, MENC, TMEA, and ETVA.
Toronto Children's Chorus The Swingle Singers Chamber Chorus
The Swingle Singers have been on a mission to surprise and innovate The Toronto Chil since their first concert in Paris in dren's Chorus 1963. The eight singers, accompanied (TCC) , founded in by string bass and drums, stunned the . 1978 by Jean Ash world with their swung renditions of worth Bartle, is recognized as one of the world's finest choral "classical" music. Since then, Ward Swingle's group has been ensembles for children. Each year, over 300 Toronto-area sustained throughout several incarnations of singers, the current children, ranging in age from six to seventeen, benefit from the London-based group being one of the strongest line-ups ever. choirs superior musical training and unique artistic opportuni The Swingle Singers continue to bring a fresh and original ap ties. proach to any music imaginable. The unique style and sound Choristers have pelformed throughout the world, includ which won Les Swingle Singers such universal acclaim forty ing concerts in as such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy years ago remains instantly recognizable in a repertoire which Center, the Sydney Opera House, and Royal AlbeIt Hall. Tours now includes contemporary opera, jazz standards, film and TV to Great Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Mrica, soundtracks, and instrumental classics. and Russia, along with numerous recordings, guest appearances, and radio and television broadcasts, have carried the award Musical Directorlbaritone Tom Bullard joined the Swingle winning sound of the Chorus throughout the globe. During its Singers in 2001, and becarne their musical director in 2004. Bul twenty-eight seasons, the Toronto Children's Chorus has been lard is a graduate of King's College, which he attended on a mu privileged to work with many internationally celebrated con sic scholarship. A frequent soloist while at King's, he appeared ductors, including Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Michael at prestigious concerts including the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lankester, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Jukka-Pekka
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 69 Saraste. the late Robert Shaw, Bramwell Tovey, and Sir David Willcocks.
Jean Ashworth Bartle is the conductor of the Toronto Children's Chours Chamber Chorus. She is also serving as the conductor of the National Youth Treble Honor Choir for this convention. More information about her can be found on page 27.
vention in San Antonio, was featured University of Houston in a set of Gesualdo madrigals for a Moores School Concert Chorale concert produced by Da Camera of Houston - Houston's professional chamber music society, and collabo The Moores School Concert Chorale has been under the rated with the Houston Chamber Choir leadership of Betsy Cook Weber since Fall of 2002. They have in a performance of Thomas Tallis' performed with Russian poet Yevgeny Yevteshenko and Russian seminal Spem in alhun. baritone Sergei Leiferkus in the Moore's School's Shostakovich Festival, and have collaborated with the Rice University Cho Betsy Cook Weber is an associate professor of music rale in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. and director of undergraduate choral studies at the University The Concert Chorale performed Morton Feldman's twenty of Houston's Moores School of Music. She directs the Moores one-part Rothko Chapel at the American Musicological Conven School Concert Chorale, and the University Women's Chorus. tion. They serve occasionally as chorus for the Moores Opera In addition to her work as a conductor, Weber also teaches Center; collaborations include Peter Grimes, Love for Three conducting and rehearsal techniques classes. She is a conduc Oranges, and Eugene Onegin. tor, clinician, and adjudicator and has conducted or adjudicated In 2005, Chorale performed at the annual Texas MEA Con- various all-state and festival choirs in sixteen states, Canada, and Mexico. Her research activities are focused on the treble choral music of Johann Michael Haydn. She servedseven years as associate di rector of the Houston Symphony Chorus, helping prepare major works for Robert Shaw, Christoph Eschenbach, Roger Wagner, Nicholas McKegan, and Christo pher Seaman. Weber holds degrees from the University of North Texas, Westmin Motif Performance Tours ster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), and Motif Performance Tours was founded by teachers whose goal is to provide clients with the the University of Houston. highest quality of educational tours at an affordable price. With a staff totaling over 25 years developing music performance programs. we are your connection to concert tours at the most historic venues and most enriching cultural centers around the globe. 717-867-4375 or [email protected] The ]'avel COll1lany, Ire. 22W.Mainst. 2nd FklorSuite Annville, PA 17003
70 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 University of Northern Iowa gree in choral conducting from Missouri State University, with Chamber Singers aD .M.A. in choral conducting and vocal peliormance from the University of Arizona. Barrett serves as a clinician, adjudicator, and director for fes tivals and competitions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He directs the Cedar Rapids-based civic mixed vocal ensemble, Chorale Midwest. Barrett is also an active bass baritone solo artist. He recently fulfilled his duties as ACDA's North Central Division R&S Chair for Youth and Student Ac tivities and is presently serving as their R&S Chair for Colleges and Universities. He is an active member of NATS, MENC, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, and a charter member of the recently-formed National Collegiate Choral Organization.
The Uni versity of Northem Iowa (UNI) Cham ber Singers QQ~dity has been under For over ~O years, we have" the leadership of Brad T. Barrett for the last tours to fit e'achg(()up'su . four years and consists of students rang interests, abilities;··af}d . ing from sophomore through the graduate Many satisfied ens~rn:~I~s retu .... .', r level. This choir is one of six outstanding . I consider ACFEA to be thepremier afte~ year, kno~inQ,tR.~~ we,' .i: f choral ensembles at UNI: The UNI Sing • 'c011~ert tour company based on their provl~e them wlth.">.m~fYi1prab ";1 'high level ofservice and dependability. experience every tmW' " ': .! . t ers, Women's Chorus, Varsity Men's Glee They are musicians themselves and understand the needs of a musical Club, Freshman Cantorei Singers, Concert group - both in concert sites, This trip was a delight. There Thanks agaiiI7orUlo·,--·_····. __ 1 Chorale, and the Chamber Singers. The . pUblicity, planning, and in types of is nothing that we would great trip! You have one accommodations required, which have changed. classy operation. Chamber Singers, consisting of music is why I have used ACFEA for . Robert Simpson, Director' ..•.. ; ~.I)~~i~.Davidson, ".!'.',""'e'_'-'''-''-''-I 10 1981. The Choir of Christ Church-"-·""~"Dallas Symphony majors and non majors, enjoy an active tours since Cathedral, Houston . Charlene Archibeque, on-campus performance schedule, col Former Director laborations with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls San Jose State University [, Chorallers Symphony Orchestra, and tours throughout the state of Iowa. !
Brad T. Barrett is an assistant profes sor at the University of Northem Iowa in Cedar Falls, conducts the UNI Singers, Chamber Singers, Varsity Men's Glee Club, and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral meth ods, and techniques. He holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music and a master's de-
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 71 students from outside of the Frost School of Music. Noted for University of Miami its innovative and versatile programming, the Frost Chorale Frost Chorale prides itself in singing literature of the twentieth and twenty first century. The Chorale has performed with renowned tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, soprano Marvis MartIn, and has recordings with Albany, ANS, and Cane Records. The fifty-two-member Chorale performed at the 1997 ACDA National Convention in San Diego and the 2003 ACDA Na tional Convention in New York and at national gatherings of MENC. Recent and upcoming performances include collabora tions with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Most and performances of Die SchOpfung under Helmut Rilling.
Jo-Michael Scheibe is professor and program director of choral studies at the Frost School of Music, where he con ducts the Frost Chorale, coordinates the choral program, and One of nine choral ensembles teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. Ensembles in the University of Miami Frost under his leadership have performed at state, regional, and na School of Music, the Frost Chorale tional ACDA conventions and an MENC conference. Scheibe was founded in 1993 by the current is widely recognized for his work with contemporary choral director of choral studies, Jo-Mi literature, new music commissions, and young composers. In chael Scheibe. The voices of the January 2003, Scheibe founded the Master Chorale of South Frost Chorale are chosen from across Florida after the demise of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, campus, drawing music majors and where he now serves as music and artistic director. Scheibe has prepared choruses for Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Franz Welser- Most, Jahja Ling, and James Judd. He International Choral is in demand internationally as a clini cian, conductor, and adjudicator. Most recently, he prepared choruses for the KathauDlixw opening of the Miami Performing Arts July 1 - 5, 2008 Center including the Concert Associa Powell River, British Columbia, Canada tion of South Florida's presentation of Il Join choirs from around the world in 20 concerts, Trovatore and the Cleveland Orchestra's seminars, common singing, social events and competitions, on the shores of Canada's magnificent Pacific Coast. Guest artists, international jury. Extension tours are available July 6-12, 2008
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72 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony. choirs have performed at ACDA conventions and a Virginia MEA state convention. Their most recent performance was at the 2006 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Charleston, West Virginia. Trott is a past president of ACDA's Southern University of Mississippi Division and Virginia chapter. During the past twelve years he has served on six national convention planning committees Concert Singers and four division planning committees. He served as program chair for the 1997 ACDA National Convention in San Diego and the 2006 Southern Division Convention in Charleston. He has also served ACDA by producing volume one of the CD recording of the Raymond Brock commissioned works and is currently working on a monograph titled Nineteenth Century Choral Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Music Appropri ate for College and University Choirs. His work on late eigh teenth-century peliormance practice has resulted in lectures at College Music Society meetings and as two articles published in the Choral Journal. He received his B.M.E. cum laude from Westminster Choir College and his M.M. in choral conducting and D .M.A. in choral conducting under the direction of Dennis The University of Mis Shrock from the University of Oklahoma. Concert Singers is an SATB auditioned ensemble with an established reputation for outstanding choral performance across the United States. On February 24, 2006, the choir performed at the 2006 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Charleston, West Vrrginia; and in March, 2005, the choir appeared on the opening session of the Pacific Rim CHILDREN'S CHORUS FESTIVAL Mississippi ACDNMEA State Conven This 9-day residential program is designed to provide treble choirs an opportunity tion in Jackson. This fifty-voice choir to experience the cultures of the Pacific Rim through their choral music repertoire peliorms repertoire of a wide variety in an interactive, non-competitive environment. Provide a life-changing experience induding newly commissioned choral for your singers. Independent Directors are welcome. works. Among them is Musick's Empire Henry II. Leek Nola A. Hahulu by. Z. Randall Stroope, with a national Festival Artistic Director Festival Host Chorus Director premier given in Charleston. Donald Founder and Director Host Chorus Indianapolis Children's Choir Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus Trott has been the director of Concert Singers since 2002.
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January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 73 Voces Nordicae
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Felix Mendelssohn The full score and vocal Bartholdy score include the German and English texts of the St. Paulop. 36 oratorio. The vocal score is by Mendelssohn. BARENREITER URTEXT Ed. by Michael Cooper • Urtext edition, BA 9071 representing the latest Score, Strings, Wind set, musicological research Organ available on sale • Includes all numbers Vocal score (Ger.lEng.) after from the original version Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy for the first time SA 9071a • Vocal texts in German and English To appear in March 2007 • Straightforward piano reduction >Uleas'e vi;it tiS a (ti;e A@LDA @ollvention . • in Miami! . . @ 13w~t~~Jor'~~rY;!
74 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 West Orange High School Concert Choir
contemporary, improvisatory, and ethnic music. This musical diversity combined with a visual performance, brings curiosity to the audience. To date, Voces Nordicae has com The West Orange peted three times in international choir High School Concert competitions. In the fall of 2004, the en- Choir tours nation semble won the sacred and the profane ally andinternation category in the prestigious Choir Contest of Tolosa in Spain. ally each year. Their In the fall ,of 2005, they won first prize in all the categories . most recent tour in which they participated and won "the audience prize" and was to Verona, Italy, "best performance of compulsory piece" in the Choir Contest where they received of Flanders-Maasmechelen in Belgium. the Gold award at the In the summer of 2006, they won the audience prize, the International Music second prize of all choirs, and second prize of vocal groups in Festival. Other tours the choir competition Florilege Vocal de Tours in France. were in New York City (2001 and 2003), Chicago (2004) and San Francisco (2005). They were the featured choir at the 1999 Lone Larsen, conductor and artistic director of Voces Orlando Conference for the History of Blacks in Florida and Nordicae, was born in Vind, a small village in the western part were chosen to represent Florida in the 2000 National Festival of Jylland in Denmark. She is educated from the Academy of of States in Washington D.C. This choir has participated in the Music in Aalborg, Denmark, the Royal College of Music in 1999 Florida Youth Chorale in Carnegie Hall under the direction Stockholm in Sweden, where she received a diploma in choral on Eph Ely and in the Moses Hogan Festival of Spirituals in conducting. She has done additional studies at Juilliard School Washington, D.C. Concert Choir had the privilege of perform of Music in New York. ing at the 2000 ACDA Florida State Convention and the 2006 She is an instructor at the Royal College of Music, the Southern Division Convention in Clu'aleston, West Virginia. Music Gymnasium, and the Adolf Fredriks Music School in Stockholm. As a freelance conductor she is often in demand Jeffery Redding is director of choral activities at West for workshops and concert productions. She has worked with Orange High School. He challenges his students to touch and ensembles such as the Swedish and Danish Radio Choirs, change lives tlu'ough music and to seek unity between people Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, and the Estonian National of all races. The West Orange High School Choirs have been Male Choir. privileged to perform at ACDA state, southern division, and national conventions. Redding has conducted all-state choirs in Virginia, South
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Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana. He and undergraduate courses in choral conducting and literature. conducted the High School Honor Choir at the 2005 ACDA Na Described as a vibrant, energetic conductor, Stegall develops tional Convention in Los Angeles and High School Honor Choir enthusiasm in his students through effective communication in at the 2006 ACDA Central Division Convention in Chicago. He the classroom and on the podium. He has numerous convention received a B.M.E. from Florida A & M University and a masters performances to his credit and makes frequent appearances as in choral conducting from Florida State University. a guest conductor and lecturer on vocal production and choral conducting throughout the country. Stegall is an active member of the lllinois MEA, MENC, and has served on the boards of the ACDA's Central Division and lllinois chapter. He earned Western Illinois his B.M. and M.M. from Stephen F. Austin State University and his D.M.A. from the University of Missouri - Kansas City University Singers Conservatory of Music.
Wheaton College Concert Choir
The Western Illinois Univer sity Singers is one of five vocal The Wheaton College (IL) ensembles in the School of Music. Concert Choir sustains a tradition Under Stegall's direction, they of fine choral performance dating have performed for the lllinois MEA State Conference in 1992, back to its founding in 1934 as the 1997,2003,2005, and will again in 2007; MENC conferences Chapel Choir. Since Paul Wiens in 1993,1996,1997, and 2001; and ACDA conventions in 1997, became conductor in 1981, the 1998, and 2000. They have also appeared in professional ven choir has performed at two ACDA ues with the Kansas City Symphony, Peoria Symphony, Dallas National, five Central division, and Brass, and most recently with jazz artist Nnena Frelon. Though two lllinois conventions and presented two interest sessions at primarily undergraduate and graduate music majors who receive Central division conventions. The choir has regularly performed scholarship awards, membership is open to all university stu masterworks including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Britten's War Re dents through audition. quiem, and Handel's Messiah under the baton of maestro John Nelson. In March of 2006, the choir performed Monteverdi's James C. Stegall is professor of music and director of Vespers (1610). Their most recent recording is titled Alleluia! choral activities at Western lllinois University. He conducts the University Singers and Concert Choir and teaches graduate Paul W. Wiens is professor of choral music and conduct-
76 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 ing, directs the Concert Choir, and teaches conducting in the Willard High School Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College (IL). He holds a D.M.A. from the University ofIowa, where he studied with Don Chamber Choir Moses. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Robert Fountain and sang with the Atlanta Symphony Willard High School (WHS) Chamber Choir is thrilled to make Chamber Chorus under maestro Robel1 Shaw. He authored Ex their second appearance at an ACDA national convention. pressive Conducting 3.0, which is the first multimedia resource They won the Gold award at the 2005 San Francisco Choral for conducting and includes two books (Text & Scores) with Festival, where they proudly shared the stage with Chanticleer. DVD rom software. The WHS Choirs have given invitational performances at the MMEA Convention in 1999,2000,2004, and 2007; at the Na tional MENC Convention in Washington D.C. in 2000; and at the 2003 National ACDA Convention in New York City. At the conclusion of fifty competitive choral competitions in 2006 they
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 77 School Teacher of the Year.
Yale Schola Cantorum
earned Grand CharnpionAwards in three categories; Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, and Male Chorus. They enjoyed a 2006 concert tour to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Key West.
Mark Lawley is grateful to be conducting choirs at Willard High School. He has found great joy in conducting the Springfield Mid America Singers and Cen tral Assembly of God Youth Choir. He is on the adjunct faculties The Yale Schola Cantorum is a of Missouri State University and Central Bible College. Lawley twenty-four-voice chamber choir, is currently the President of the Missouri Choral Directors specializing in music before 1750 Association and Past President of the South Central Missouri and from the last hundred years. MEA. He earned They are supported by the Yale Insti his undergraduate tute of Sacred Music with the School degree at Evangel of Music. Simon Carrington is the University and an group's founder and conductor. In addition to performing regu M.M. in conduct larly in New Haven, New York, and Boston, Schola Cantorum ing at Missouri records and tours nationally and internationally. The choir has State University. been selected to perform at national choral conventions in San He is a member of Antonio and Miami. Its performing schedule includes a series of Pi Kappa Lambda, programs of the music of Bach under guest conductor Helmuth ACDA, MMEA, Rilling, and music of the French Baroque with the Ensemble and MSTA. He Europeen William Byrd, Paris. In June 2007, the choir will was honored by tour southwest France. The choir's repertoire to date includes the Missouri Con works by Josquin des Pres, Orlando di Lasso, Adrian Willaert, gress of Parents Tallis, Schiltz, Monteverdi, Bach, Charpentier, Stravinsky, and Teachers with Dallapiccola, Feldman, Rautavaara, MacMillan, O'Regan, and an Honorary Life Yale faculty members Ezra Laderman, Aaron Jay Kernis, and time Membership Joan Panetti. award, and was the 2005 Willard High Simon Carrington joined the Yale faculty in 2003 from
78 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 New England Conservatory, where he directed the choral activi the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria, British Columbia, with ties for two years. Previously he had served for seven years as singers from allover Canada. He has directed the Texas all-state director of choral activities at the University of Kansas. While choir; the Monteverdi ChoiT Festival in Budapest and has lead at Cambridge University, he co-founded the King's Singers and workshops at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy), spent twenty-five years with this British vocal ensemble. With and the Yale summer festival at NOlfolk. He recently gave the them he gave 3,000 pelformances at many of the world's most keynote address at the Association of Canadian Choral Con prestigious festivals and concert halls, made seventy record ductors conference and in 2007 will conduct at the 11 th Tokyo ings, and appeared on numerous television and radio programs Cantat in Japan, will serve as president of the international jury (including nine appearances with the late Johnny Carson). Car at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany, and as guest conduc rington maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor tor of the Camerata Vocale in Utrecht (Holland). and choral clinician, leading workshops and masterclasses all over the world. Most recently he has conducted combined choirs in the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona; the Faure Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and Dornoch Cathedral, Scotland; and
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January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 79 The Twelfth Annual INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR FESTIVAL JULY 8 - 15,2008 HENRY LEeK, Artistic Director York Oxford London DR. ROLLO DILWORTH and DR. DAVID FLOOD, Conductors Join forces with other great children's choirs from all over. Rehearse in the shadow of majestic York Minster Cathedral! The first Festival Choir Concert is at Ripon Cathedral, a Festival Evensong Service is in York Minster Cathedral and the Final Festival Choir Concert is at the historic Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford with the Virtuosi of London Orchestra. Individual choir concerts in York Minster Cathedral, and in London at St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Paul's Covent Garden, etc. Four nights in York, two nights in Oxford and the final two nights are in London!
The Eleventh Annual BRITISH AMERICAN CHURCH MUSIC FESTIVAL JUNE 12 - 18, 2008 DR.GERRE HANCOCK and MICHAEL HARRIS Edinburgh York London An opportunity for church choirs of all sizes and denominations. The Festival Choir Concerts take place at Britain's most historic locations of the Faith - St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh; York Minster Cathedral, and Westminster Central Hall with orchestra. Dr. Gerre Hancock, former Choirmaster at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (NYC), and Michael Harris, the Master cif the Music at St. Giles, will conduct both concerts and an Evensong. Custom itineraries can include extensions to explore your denominational heritage! Announcing the ELY CATHEDRAL SUMMER TRAINING COURSE JULY 1- 11,2008 Training and singing with Paul Trepte, the Director of Music at Ely Cathedral, along with the Music Staff and Choirs of Ely Cathedral. Participate in five Evensong services, one Sung Eucharist, and a very special "Son et Lumiere" Presentation - all in the exquisite jewel of Ely Cathedral. Sightseeing in London, Canterbury, Cambridge, Stratford, and the magical Cotswolds. Only 50 participants accepted! Register now! "Q:~;\~·,X' Cl;,'t:, 1f .. ~+'Q!.;;q>,~ I.t~~~~;;!- q~~L'it~y< .------~~------, Announcing... BEST is pleased to be arranging the I. The Drakensberg 2008 US Tour by the . America's BEST Boys' Choir Canterbury Cathedral Choir U.S. Domestic Concert Tours 2007 US Ttour of Men and Boys Dr. David Flood, Master of the Choristers We have brought our expertise and March 7~31, 2007 attention to detail home. Now you can . Miami (ACDA) - Ft. Lauderdale March 28 .. April 11, 2008 get the BEST quality tour and personal Atlanta - Nashville - Cincinnati Only eight lucky locations will get a service in a domestic tour or festival! - Chicago - Detroit - Buffalo - concert. Ask BEST about booking Custom-designed as always! Pittsburgh - Baltimore - Hartford, CT Boston - New York them on your concert series. British European Specialty Tours, Ltd. Phone: 800-835-0402 12315 Hancock, Suite 24, Carmel, IN 46032 Fax: 317-575-8976 www.BESTConcertTours.com INFO@BESTConcertTours~coni WHO AND WHAT IS
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Amanda Quist earned a bachelor Fine Arts Camp. Prior to graduate study, of music and master of music in music she was choral director at Grand Rapids education and choral conducting, Summa Christian High School and conductor Cum Laude, from Western Michigan of the Midwest Chorale for the North University (WMU). While at WMU, she American Chorale Company. taught undergraduate conducting, was Quist was a national finalist in the conductor of the Collegium Musicum ACDA Graduate Conducting Compe singers and assistant director of the Uni tition in Los Angeles, 2005, and in the versity Chorale. She is currently working same year, her choir was selected to be toward the doctor of musical arts in the demonstration ensemble for Simon choral conducting at the University of Carrington's session at the Michigan North Texas (UNT), and is director of ACDA convention. She is the recipient the UNTWomen's Chorus and associate of the UNT Toulouse Graduate School conductor of the Denton Bach Choir. Scholarship and Audrey Davidson Early She has taught on the summer facul Music Scholarship. ties ofWMU, Michigan State University's Community Music School, and Blue Lake
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 83 All sessions will be presented Jor every tt'ack! Interest Session 1 R&SArea Session Title Presenter and Demonstration Choirs J~anAsI1Wprthj3aitle.c6iidu'ctihg'XI7~,torbntd6iijldren!s'( ;: .. :.. Ghbr.iJsf.Jh~ir7l)ef~!fOii;(Qptado;"paniicfaJ."< ' ....> >.,; Francisco J. Nunez, Young People's Chorus of NYC and Jim Papoulis, composer with The Hamilton HS Chamber Singers (CA), R. John Hamilton, conductor
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Discovering Samuel Barber's Recently Published Harold Rosenbaum, Canticum Novum Singers, New York Motet on the Words of Job Virtuoso Singers (NY) .Group.·Voc;alStratefJies,/WarmlJps(:o.r9h?n.9i'!9 PEltrick' Freer,' GE:lorgiaSt~3te U niverl)ity, (GA)with:T@"Kjh9:~1i(i{Jc, ',Ad6/es¢ehtyoic~s . ". ". . ... ' •..•..... Mlddle' $choo/$ingers(GT).. Marc L.' Kaplan,con<:l~dfbri":;h(;( . College I It is Contrasts that Move Men's Minds: Text and Joan Conlon, University of Colorado (CO) University Expression in Lauridsen, Brahms, & Montiverdi
84 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 All sessions will be p1'esented JOT every t1'ack! Interest Session 4 R&SArea Session Title Presenter
Music ill .Cast Your Nets: Strategies for Establishing High School Choral MichaE?IZemek, AugustanaCoUege(IL) Wor!;hip Programs in Worship
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86 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 seminar on music director transitions, and Cast Your Nets: Strategies Choral Conductors Today: for Establishing HighSchool a new book about working with choral A Profile conductors. Choral Programs in Worship
Chorus America launched a one-of-a Ann Meier Baker's career includes kind online survey to gather information twenty-five years experience in the arts This session is an examination of from nearly 700 conductors about their and in education, effective strategies for establishing background, education, the number and with emphasis on dynamic church choral ensembles for type of choruses they lead, their compen nonprofit manage high school youth. From recruitment to sation and benefits, level of job satisfac ment, governance, organization and implementation, topics tion, and a variety of other topics. The fundraising, and will focus on best practices for mean findings from this study may help choral organization de ingful involvement in worship and the conductors understand more about their velopment. Since life of congregations using a variety of profession and will inform music educa she became Cho repertoire and resources. tors in conservatories, colleges, univer rus America's sities, and other settings in guiding the CEO in 2000, the Michael Zemek is currently assistant career planning of future conductors. The organization's professor of choral music education at findings have also led to the development reach and impact Augustana College in Rock Island, Illi of two new Chorus America resources has increased dramatically. Previously, nois. In addition to be released early in 2007 -an online to his responsi bilities at Augus tan a, he conducts the high school Youth Choir at St. Paul Lu theran Church in Davenport, Iowa. During the summer months, REMOTE CONTROL he has served as the summer program director for Luther COMPACT & PORTABLE an Summer Music Academy and Festival, ONE TOUCH RECORDING a month-long program for accomplished high school musicians from throughout RECORD REVIEW BUTTON the United States, and the newly formed MINUTE TRACK FUNCTION middle school choir camp, Young Luther ans Sing! He holds aB.A. in music educa Superscope's new PSD330 is the easiest way ever to tion, summa cum laude, from Gustavus record CD's, for any application. Just touch a button BUY DIRECT FROM Adolphus College, an M.M. in choral and go. Use the built in mic or plug in your own. conducting from St. Cloud State Univer Remote control included. Record direct to CD SUPERSCOPE® sity, and a D.M.E. from the University of 'without any other equipment, computers or software. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To learn more, visit www.superscope.net or call 866-371-4773 ©2006MIOSspr61179
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 87 Thrrtte~(Q)1m:aill-=. C1:ntrdl Music~ .r Festiva1~ II' June 18-21, 2008
Meier Balcer was the founding director of ral Conductors Association Competi the National School Boards Foundation. tion. Choral performance venues have Prior to her work with the Foundation, she included Boston Symphony Hall and spent seven years as the director of trustee Carnegie Hall, A former professional services at the American Symphony Or soprano soloist, and selected member of chestra League. Her other professional the Robert Shaw Festival singers, Beavan positions include director of marketing has been a section leader for the Carnegie of MENC and member of the United Hall Choral Workshop. A founder and States Air Force Singing Sergeants. She director of the Young Artist Summersong is the Co-Chair of the National Perform high school vocal camp on Cape Cod, she ing Arts Convention, a groundbrea1cing maintains a vocal studio and is music di gathering of thousands of arts leaders rector of the Unitarian Universalist Meet from all disciplines in Denver, Colorado ing House in Chatham, Massachusetts, A in June 2008. recent contributor to the Choral Journal, Beavan holds an M.S. in music education degree from Central Connecticut State University. The Choral Repert()ire Selection Dilemma: A New Approach for the The Conscious Choir: High School Db'ector Presented annually by FestCorps, Inc. Developing Awareness and Ownership in REGISTER Now Choral Ensembles Join world-renowned conductors This session is a presentation of a four Sir David Willcocks year repertoire cycle of choral literature & Paul Leddington Wright. designed to facilitate the high school cho Singers of all age and ability levels ral curriculum. Discussion will include For nearly 25 years, ICMF participants have tremendous capacity to develop repertoire sources. have described this festival as a musical, knowledge and skills in a broad spectrum travel and cultural event lilw no other. of areas vital to the success of a choral en Allison Beavan is director of cho See for yourself at semble (vocal technique, rehearsal disci wwwfistcorps.com ruses at Nauset Regional High School in pline, ensemble awareness, performance NOlth Eastham, Contact one our I CMF Travel Specialists practice, etc.) and to learn when and how cif Massachusetts. to bool~ your trip to apply them. In this session, Elizabeth Named Re to Coventry in 2008! Schauer will present techniques for cre gional Teacher ating responsible and responsive singers of the Year in (800) 666-3838 who are engaged in the learning process .• " [email protected] 2004, Beavan's throughout the rehearsal, performance, ~ choruses have and post-performance experience. earned gold TRAVELINK Travel medals at music www.TravelinkOnline.com Representative festivals across Elizabeth Schauer is associate director of choral activities at the Univer (800) 821-4671 x5155 the Northeast, sity of Arizona, where she conducts Sym [email protected] including the Massachusetts Instrumental and Cho- phonic Choir, University Community
88 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Chorus, and vocal jazz ensembles, and honored with awards for excellence in Developing Tonal Memory teaches cours teaching. Her choirs have been invited Calibrating the Ear es in conduct to perform at state and regional con ing and choral ventions of ACDA, MENC, and CMS. This sixty-minute workshop is de techniques. Schauer is a frequent presenter at state, signed for choirs and/or conductors. John Schauer came regional, and national conferences and is Goldsmith, an alumnus of Chanticleer, to Arizona active throughout the United States as a teaches a method of unaccompanied vocal after serving clinician, adjudicator, and guest conduc warm-ups that expand the tonal memory for ten years tor. She holds degrees from University by developing and calibrating the ear's as director of of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of ability to discriminate between half~steps choral activi Music, Westrrlinster Choir College, and and whole-steps. Conductors who adopt ties at Adams the University of Michigan. the method can train their choirs to learn State College, where she was thrice
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JANUARY 2007 Frost Chorale and retain parts much more quickly, nied Heinz Chapel Choir, prepares the the Master Chorale of South Florida sing accurately in tune, have beautiful chorus for and is alto soloist for the Bach unisons, and maintain stabte key centers. & the Baroque Concert Series (with pe The entire workshop audience will be the riod instruments), and teaches the sight demonstration group. singing (moveable "do") two-year course sequence for undergraduates. Goldsmith John Goldsmith, an unaccompa performed with the Robert Shaw Festival nied specialist, is an alumnus of Chan Singers in France and Carnegie Hall. ticleer (Countertenor) with a B.A. from Capital University, an M.M. in conduct ing from West minster Choir Discovering Samuel Barber's College, and Orchestra Recently Published Motet on teaching experi Miami Bach Society the Words of Job ence at the high
NOVEMBER 2007 school and uni EJ. Haydn's Die Schopftmg versity levels. The purpose Helmut Rilling, Conductor Goldsmith has of the interest Featuring the Frost Choral Union and made solo ap Symphony session is to in pearances with troduce conduc the National, tors and singers Detroit, Columbus, andYale Symphony to a recently Orchestras, the Princeton Pro Musica, published major the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and Cantari choral work by Singers of Columbus. At the University Samuel Barber of Pittsburgh he directs the unaccompa- titled Motetto on Words from the Book ofJob, TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP edited by Harold Rosenbaum. Scores will Stipends of $5,500-$8,400 per academic year plus tuition remission ACDA Quick Tip be handed out, and Rosenbaum will re hearse those present, striving to bring out For additional information and Plan your the richness and beauty of this beautiful audition/course requirements, contact three movement work for double chorus. Dr. lo-Michael Scheibe, convention travel At the conclusion of the session, a live Director of Choral Studies. schedule so that recording of a performance by The New University of Miami Choral Studies Program York Virtuoso Singers will be played. The PO Box 248165 * Coral Gables, FL 33124-7610 you can attend final Amen is "to die for!" P (305)284-4162 F (305)284-4839 www.music.miami.edu/choralstudies convention events Harold Rosenbaum is founder and on Saturday artistic director of the all-professional The Ulliversity ofMiami Phillip & Patricia Frost School ofMusic Itas beell all accreditied illstitutiollal afternoon and choir The New York Virtuoso Singers, member of tlte National Association ofSchools of Music since 1939. plus The Canticum Novum Singers, and evening. Westchester Oratorio Society. He has @HOR.A.I.i STUDIES conducted 1,300 concerts with these and
90 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 his other choirs at The Juilliard School, Queens College, Adelphi University, and the University at Buffalo/SUNY, where he is currently Director of Choirs. In ad dition, he has collaborated 100 times with orchestras including the New York Phil harmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic (55 times), the American Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the CHORAL PRAISE COMPREHENSIVE Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Juilliard SECOND EDITION Orchestra. He has conducted concerts pdated and expanded, this comprehensive choral resource throughout Europe on 17 tours. ~ II .LClmalces an excellent supplement to your missal program.
• More than 500 traditional hymns and contemporary songs in simple, easy-to-read choral Ear-training and Sight-Singing arrangements in the Context • Choral parts for many of the of the Rehearsal most popular OCP, GIA and WLP songs This session will demonstrate effec tive and proven pedagogy that develops • Available with Lectionary strong sight-singing skills and solid ear readings. Now your choir.caIl training in structured, cumulative and follow the Order of Mass, the satisfying ways during the context of a readings, and music for the dynamic rehearsal. This session is not liturgy using only one book!. only for children's choir directors, but also for all choral directors who need to re-energize their rehearsals and save pre cious time. The Acappella Choir of the Toronto Children's Chorus can sight-read just about anything. Come and discover how it's done! The Toronto Children's Chorus Chamber Choir will serve as the demonstration choir. More information about them can be found on page 69.
Jean Ashworth Bartle will be the presenter for this session. She is also serv ing as an honor choir conductor. More information about her can be found on Place your order today! page 27. .... ~ ~ I-800-LITURGY (548-8749) • ocp.org
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 91 Group Vocal Techniques entiated instructional strategies for choirs College, Columbia University. He is the for Changing containing both advanced and novice author of Getting Started with Middle Adolescent Voices singers. Repertoire will be provided. The Level Choir and King Phillip Middle School Singers, di the DVD series, rected by Marc Kaplan, will serve as the Success for Ad Participants in this activity-based ses demonstration choir. More information olescent Sing sion will explore creative, research-sup about them can be found on page 55. ers: Unlocking ported techniques for warm-up and voice the Potential in building sessions with young adolescent Patrick K. Freer is head of the music Middle School voices in all stages of change. Included education division at Georgia State Uni Choirs. Freer is will be suggestions for easing the fears versity. Freer holds a B.M. and an M.M. a frequent guest of reluctant singers, specific exercises for from Westminster Choir College of Rider conductor for singers who don't match pitch, and differ- University and an Ed.D. from Teachers all-state and re gional honor choruses. He has made 120 research-based conference presentations, including at ACDA (2005) and MENC / (2004) national conventions. He serves Revolutionize Your Teaching! on the editorial boards of the Interna tional Journal of Music Education and Study with Hungarian master teachers and distinguished American faculty the Middle Grades Research Journal. He in one of the finest music education is guest editing a series of Music Educa ~9Q6~Y programs in North America. Make use tors Journal articles celebrating MENC's EDLICATION ' of the large HNU folksong collection centennial anniversary. a unique resource for teaching! • M.M. in Music Education The Master of Music degree may be • Kodaly Specialist Certificate completed in one year. Classes begin • Kodaly Summer Certificate with the HNU KodaIy Summer A.nstl1Jllte, July 9 - 27, 2007. Interpreting and Internalizing Application deadline: May 1, 2007 Global Rhythms: $5,000 Kodaly Fellowships available Breaking Open the Beat Fellowship deadline: March 1, 2007 In this demonstration session, award winning composers/conductors Francisco J. Nunez and Jim Papoulis will present techniques that will help you and your choirs decipher complex global rhythms so that you can perform multi-cultural pieces with confidence and flair. The Hamilton High School Chamber Sing ers, directed by John Hamilton, will serve as the demonstration choir. More information about them can be found on page 52.
92 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Francisco J. Nunez is also conduct- for the University of Washington and ing the Multicultural honor choir. More conductor of the Northwest Chamber information about him can be found on Chorus. A noted page 27. scholar of cho ral music, she Jim Papoulis composes and con has published Choral Music ducts music that connects classical numerous cho-. and world sounds with contemporary ral editions in Never Had It rhythms, harmo her areas of nies, technology, research and So Good and children's performance voices. His interests, which scores for film, include the mu Octarium, the Midwest's commercials, sic of Georg Phillip Telemann, and premier vocal ensemble, announces dance, and cham Claudio Monteverdi. She is active as a ber ensembles conductor, presenter, editor, and arranger. the release of its debut CD. has garnered in Conlon has chaired the ACDA Research ternational atten & Publications Committee. On two tion and Boosey sabbaticals, she studied Hindustani clas & Hawkes publishes his award-winning sical vocal music in India. She received choral music. Special recognitions in her B.A., M.A., and D.M.A. from the clude Clios, Tellys, and Humanitarian University of Washington. In 2001, she Awards. published Performing Monteverdi: A Conductor's Guide through Hinshaw, Chapel Hill.
It is Contrasts that Move Men's Minds: Textand Expression in li:lUridson, Brahms, and A Kirke Mechem Monteverdi Retrospective
Octarium brings a magical clarity and brilliance both to choral music's most respected repertoire and to newer This session will be a discussion of the A fifty-year chronological retrospec additions to the choral canon. In its first release, the group delivers Benjamin Britten's Hymn to SL Cecilia with a new relationship between text and interpreta tive ofKirke Mechem's choral works, be vitality. Ukewise, the voices embrace the chords of Monteverdi, Paulus, Tallis and Hatfield, among other fine composers, with tion, and the importance of context and ginning with his first publication (1957) energy, accuracy and heart subtext to form, compositional technique, to his most recent (2007). The session With each track, it becomes mora claar that Octarium's debut and expression. Music packets will be will concentrate on the shorter works, album Dctarium is a release to be savored and shared. available. both accompanied and unaccompanied: For more information, or to order your copy, madrigals, motets, and selections from log onto the group's web site: www.octarium.org. Joan Catoni Conlon is Director of choral cycles and operas. The twelve Graduate Choral Research for the College pieces will be sung by the University of Music at the University of Colorado. Singers of Western Illinois University, 6320 Brookside Plaza No. 163 Before coming to CU, Conlon was pro directed by James C. Stegall. More in Kansas City. Missouri 64113 fessor of choral music and conducting formation about them can be found on
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 93 page 76. Francisco. He lived three years in Vienna almost every genre. ASCAP recently The composer will introduce each and now resides registered performances of his music in piece and will answer questions fol in San Fran forty-two countries. His opera, Tartuffe, lowing the program. The session will cisco, where his has been staged more than 300 times conclude with audience participation in works have been in six countries. He is often called the the singing of one of the composer's most premiered by "dean of American choral composers;" popular works, Blow Ye The Trumpet. the San Fran eight doctoral dissertations have been cisco Sympho written on his music. Mechem is cur Born and raised in Kansas and edu ny and Opera. rently composing his fifth opera, based on cated at Stanford and Harvard, Kirke Mechem's 250 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Mechem conducted and taught at published com Stanford and at the University of San positions cover
Keeping the Conductor's Voice Healthy or Announcing for Summer 2007 "Speak as You Sing!" m;; 6)I/~tr~~~~ Using healthy singing technique as a Inspired by the Choral Courses at Eton College in Englaud and developed with the participation of guide, participants will explore the simi their fotilldiIlg director, RillphAllwood, the Woodberry Forest Choral Courses are stinitner music programs dedicated to great singing, the love of music making, and cultivation of the whole musician. larities in vocal production for speaking and teaching. Exercises, techniques, and Choral ConrseOne:j~ly,15~21, 2007 strategies for a healthy use of the voice GuestConductor:1ames It'Litton will be developed in this interactive ses sion. , • For b9~sitlgr~q~s.~~8' ' • Featuripg ch6~alevenSong and secular repertoire Kathryn Smith recently joined the ChoralConrse Two: July 22-28,2007 faculty at Cosumnes River College in OrganistWorksllop with David Higgs Sacramento, California, as assistant pro • Co-educational for High School Students fessor in vocal/choral music, where she ·OrganWeek. teaches all levels of voice, choirs, and • Choral Evensong at the elementary/general music for children. National Cathedral in Washington D. C. Smith is a member of ACDA, where • Major emphasis on popular a cappella singing she serves as past president of the Cali Wallace Hornady, director· fornia state chapter. She has previously Christopher Jacobson, organist held ACDApositions as state president elect, president, state R&S Chair for Women's Choirs, ECCO Summer Cho For more information and to apply please ral Conference Chair, and Bay Region visit our Web site at www.woodberry.org Representative to the ACDA California and click on Summer Programs state chapter. Smith is a frequent adjudicator, guest (540) 672-3900 conductor, and clinician. She has conduct-
94 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 ed throughout the state of California, in- another way directors can maximize their eluding CMEA Bay Section honor choirs time and promote choral artistry. and CAACDA division honor choirs. She has regularly served as adjudicator for Tim Fredstrom is on faculty at the Golden State Choral Competition, lllinois State University (ISU), where California Music Educators Association he teaches choral music education and Large Group and conducts the Men's Glee. He is also the Solo-Ensemble 2006-07 Faculty-in-Residence in the Festivals, State ISU Center for Teaching Learning and ACDA Honor Technology, where he serves as a mentor Choir audi to other faculty on campus. Prior to com tions, and Music ing to ISU, he taught choral music in the Teachers Associ . Nebraska public schools for ten years. ation auditions. He is a frequent As soprano choral clinician soloist, she has and adjudica performed with tor, and has pre the Diablo Sym sented numerous phony, the Contra Costa Chamber Or workshops on chestra, Amador Valley Opera Theatre, choral music ed the city of San Ramon "Sing Along ucation, gifted Messiah," the San Francisco Bay Area education, and Chamber Choir, and the Contra Costa technology. He Performing Arts Society. makes extensive use of technology in his teaching and uses e-rehearsal resources to complement the traditional face-to-face rehearsals of the Need More Rehearsal Time? ISU Men's Glee. Try E;.Rehearsal!
It seems that choral directors never Non-stuffy Assessment in have enough rehearsal time to get every thing done that they want to, and this is the Choral Classroom particularly true for choirs who meet only once or twice each week. This session You taught it, but did they get it? This will present ways directors can use web session is designed to familiarize high based resources to compliment their face school and middle school teachers with CST - 2025574-40 to-face rehearsals. Some of the strategies practical methods to assess student learn covered in this session include using pod ing. Practical techniques to be presented casts and video streams, creating online will include teacher- and student-designed audio (and visual) practice tracks, and rubrics, the use of video and audio record using online discussion forums to give ings, creative feedback methodologies, and positive reinforcement strategies. 1-800-922-3976 feedback. E-rehearsal strategies provide www.world-projects.com Participants will participate in hands-on
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 95 demonstrations and walle away with a AssistantAward from the School of Music. historical recordings of well-lmown vo multitude of new assessment strategies As choral director at Wando, he con cal and choral masterpieces, in addition to use in the classroom. ducts the hon to documentary sources on performance ors choirs, the practice. Vernon Huff is in his fifth year at Wan "Urban Contem do High School. He previously taught pub porary Chorus, Christopher Hogwood is one of lic school music in Ohio and California. and supervises the greatest proponents of the early music He received his B.M.E. in choral music a total program movement and a renowned conductor education from Furman University and of 260 students. of twentieth-century works. He has ap his M.M. in choral conducting from Ohio Choirs under his peared in many of the world's leading op State University (OSU), where he studied direction have era houses, including Theatre National de with Hilary Apfelstadt. While at OSU, earned gold l'Opera de Paris, London's Royal Opera Huff received an Outstanding Graduate medals at fes House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sydney's tival competitions across the country Opera House, and most recently La Scala, and have toured extensively throughout Milan (Dido and Aeneas) this summer. Europe. Hogwood began his career as a Huff has conducted middle school keyboard player over forty years ago, 32nd Summer clinics throughout South Carolina and he and has been a Dalcroze Eurhythmics currently serves as the lead choral direc major force in tor for schools in the Charleston County the revolution Workshops School District. that has for Cru"negieMellon ever changed the way music Workshop I - 1 credit is performed, July 2 - 6, 2007 The Past is. a Foreign Country: recorded, and Workshop II - 3 credits heard. Based They Do Things July 2 - 20, 2007 on the principle Differently There of discovering Rhythmic Movement - Solfege Improvisation - Pedagogy and, as far as possible, recreating the composer's intentions, both in notation Both workshops are designed to On its journey from composer's enhance musicianship, teaching and performance, his approach begins and performing skills. manuscript to concert hall performance with musicology - going back to the a musical work passes through the hands Certificate and License Programs original sources, correcting published of editor and intepreter. Both make deci errors, tracking changes in subsequent Continuil1gequcatiQIl credit, sions, often based on personal choices, in5Iudr~:g .. pennsYIVania·"ACt~ editions. and both have to satisfy the tastes and /contaFt "', His repertoire ranges from mediaeval ./' Dr. Annabelle Joseph, Director ., needs of a changing public. Christopher to contemporary music, yet he is particu 'Th"a'~arta Sanchez Dalcroze Training cente\ Hogwood compares the options open . School of MUSIC ' larly associated with the music of Haydn .: .Carrie~i~ Mellon University \ to an editor, and the expectations of the and Handel, and in twentieth-century f'itt~burgh, PA 15213-3890 \ 412.268.239) \ modern performer, and measures these music has an affinity for the neo-Baroque 412.26S.1537iFax). ! against the evidence available to the in and neo-Classical schools including ·music-.dalcroze@andrew,:cmu.edu j terpreter today, and the range of choices ! works by Stravinsky, Martinu, and the I to be made. He draws examples from Entartete composers. www.cmu.edu/cfa/dalcroze editing music ranging from the 17th to the Hogwood's many publications include 20th century, and includes the evidence of 96 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 a survey of patronage through the ages (Music at Court); biographical studies of Haydn, Mozart, and Handel (Thames and Hudson); a history of the trio sonata (BBC Publications); and investigations of British music. His new book on Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks was recently published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). His written work has been translated into six languages.
Scor~Anc:lIysis and Your PedagQgicalPlan For Treble Voices
This workshop will teach you how to use quality treble-voiced literature as a tool to build fine singing and artistic thinking in your choir. Marie Stultz will show you how each piece can be CHORAL ENSEMBLES 2005-2007 Panetti A Gust inside the God evaluated and assigned to one of ten Yale Camerata MAJOR REPERTOIRE Purcell Welcome to all the Yale Glee Club Albright David's Songs Pleasures pedagogical areas. Teaching the singer Yale Schola Cantorum JS Bach Christmas Oratorio; Seydelmann Mass NO.3 in C to read the score is only the beginning. Battell Chapel Choir St. John Passion; St. Matthew Minor Marquand Chapel Choir Passioll; Magnificat and Stucky Three New Motets Learning to evaluate the pedagogical Yale Repertory Chorus Cantata No. 63 Tallis Spem in alium Yale Recital Chorus Bertali Missa Resurrectionis merits of the score and using those at RECENT STUDENT RECITAL Bresnick Three Choral Songs on tributes to train your singers is the skill RECENT VISITING ARTISTS Poems ofAmichai REPERTOIRE this workshop will provide. The Miami Dave Brubeck Britten War Requiem Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard James MacMillan Buxtehude Membra Jesu nostri Bernstein Chichester Psalms Children's Chorus, directed by Timothy Sir Neville Marriner Charpentier Le Reniemellt de Britten Curlew River; Cantata A. Sharp, will serve as the demonstration Tarik O'Regan St Pierre Misericordium Stefan Parkman De Padilla Mirabilia testimollia Durufle Requiem choir for this session. More information Krzysztof Penderecki tua Finzi Requiem da Camera Helmuth Rilling Du Mont Magnificat, pour Deux Ives The Unanswered Questioll about them can be found on page 56. Sir David Willcocks Choeurs Kernis Musica Celestis The Academy Chamber Choir Feldman Rothko Chapel Kreek The Psalms of David ofUppsala Levine U" Prodigio Les Canto Lasso Lamelltatiolls Marie Stultz is the author of Innocent Clare College Choir, Cambridge Mathias Ceremony After a Fire Part Berliller Messe Smmds: Building Choral Tone and Art Ensemble Europeen William Raid Rheinberger Cantus Missae Byrd, Paris Mozart Coronation Mass; Schnittke Requiem istry in Your Children's Choir and com I Fagiolini Requiem; Vespers K. 339 Shostalwvich Chamber poser/editor of a choral series published Tuks Camerata, University of O'Regan The Ecstasies Above Symphony Pretoria (World Premiere) Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat by MorningStar. As researcher for Spec trum Music in Lexington, Massachusetts, Stultz has built an enormous research Office of Admissions Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 library and writes a quarterly new-release teI203.432·9753 fax 2°3-432.9680
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 97 newsletter, The Choral Room. She is also and Southern division conventions and Ken Thomas, the National R&S the founder of two major treble ensem conducted the 263-voice Honors All Chair for Show Choirs, is currently com bles, The Treble Chorus of New England State Middle School Girls Chorus for the pleting an M.E. in vocal/choral Music and The Young Opera Company of New state of Georgia. from Auburn University. His teaching England. Stultz career includes seven years as director has received of choral music at Auburn High School, many commis two years at J.E Drake Middle School, sions, written Show Choirs from and five years at Wrights Mill Road El numerous ar A to Z,Seriously! ementary School. ticles for major Thomas also serves as director of periodicals, reg music at Holy Trinity Episco ularly receives This session offers a methodology of pal Church in ASCAP awards, starting and maintaining a quality show Auburn, Ala has trained two choir that complements the traditional bama. He was a National Arts choral program. The panel will include featured teacher Recognition winners, received two cita choir directors, choreographers, and ar in the Alabama tions from the Massachusetts State Sen rangers as they explore the best concepts Education As ate and prepared twenty-five students to fit your choral program. Ken Thomas sociation and accepted at Tanglewood. In 2006, she will preside over the session. made appearances at the ACDA Eastern National Educa tion Association television com mercials promoting America's Public Schools. His professional organizations include ACDA, MENC, NEA, and www.clarionrecords.com Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He served as Program Co-Chair for the 2002 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Char TWO GRAMMY NOMINATIONS lotte, North Carolina.
Requiem (CLR917CD) by Conspirare Receives Two Thomas R. Smith, Professor Emeri Grammy Nominations tus at Auburn Best Choral Performance - Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor University, re Best Engineered Album - John Newton, Engineer cently retired after complet Congratulations Conspirare ing a 34-year career as chair of the depart Clarion A Respected Choral label ment of music, That Can Help professor of Your Choir Be Heard music and di rector of choral To find a home for your music call (800) 367-9059. activities at the university. Smith has been very active in
98 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 ACDA, having served as Southern Divi Oregon University. He concluded his ating "songs kids love to sing," and has sion President and Program Chair for the teaching career written such best sellers as First, We Must national conventions held in Salt Lake at the College of Be Friends, Sinner Man, and Shoshone City, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., and the Siskiyous, Love Song. His educational arrangements New York City. He conducted the Auburn also in North include We Are The World and My Best University Singers and Concert Choir in ern California, Friend's Wedding, and some of the most performances for four ACDA Southern and now de successful Broadway and commercial Division Conventions and in 2005, he votes full time titles in the industry, including Disney's conducted the Auburn University Singers to composing, Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, at the ACDA National Convention in Los arranging and and "Seasons of Love" from Rent. Angeles. Smith continues to be active consulting. He is a lecturer on popular choral mu in the choral profession as Minister of Emerson is sic and has addressed major music edu Music at Providence Baptist Church in known for cre- cation groups including MENC, CMEA, Opelika, Alabama and as conductor of the Alabama Singing Men.
Dale Farmer received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in Choral Music Education from Auburn University. He has conducted choral ensembles 2007 KOOALY in middle school, junior high, and SUMMER INSTITUTE high school in THREE-WEEK CERTIFICATION public schools in Americus and PROGRAM IN NEW YORK CITY Tifton, Georgia. Endorsed by the Organization of American Kodi!Jly Educators He was selected June 25-July 13, 2007 Star Teacher on Upgrade your musicianship and apply Kodaly methodology two different oc- to your teaching. Focus on voice, solfege, folk song materials casions. and research, choral performance and conducting, and In 2003, Mr. Farmer returned to Au recorder. Levels 1, 2, and 3. burn University where he is completing Noncredit tuition: $1,075 his Ph.D. in curricululum and teaching in Credit tuition: 3 graduate credits at $1,048 per credit choral music education. He is currently Low-cost NYU dormitory accommodations available conductor of the Auburn University Application deadline: May 1 Men's Chorus and the show choir, the Also: Summer Cross-Choral Training Workshop, July 9-13 Auburn University Singers. His profes For additional information, call 212-992-9380, or visit sional affiliations include the National our Web site-at www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/summerchoral Association for Music Education and ACDA. ~fl'\uu • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SUMMER72007 Roger Emerson received his de New York University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution_ gree in music education from Southern January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 99 European Union; and to Germany, Swit TMEA, ICDA, OMEA and NYSSMA. adding choirs at different geographical locations of the Valley of the Sun malcing zerland, and his home country of Austria, where they sang a side-by-side concert Jennifer Canfield will be a member it one of the largest Boychoir programs. with the Vienna Choir Boys in the Court of the panel. No information was avail~ Chapel. In the fall of 2004, Stangel able for her at press time. Georg Stangel berger joined the Phoenix Boys Choir as artistic director berger made his debut with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra conducting them Jarad Voss will be a member of the with interna together with the Phoenix Boys Choir in panel. No information was available for tional experi Mozart's Requiem. him at press time. ence of thirteen years with the Vienna Choir Boys as deputy artistic director Tandem Teaching: Starting a Satellite and principal Collaboration and the . Choir Program choir conduc Training of Aging Singers tor. He led the This session will discuss how the Choir to its Carnegie Hall debut; to This session highlights a team ap Phoenix Boys Choir increased its enrol France and Spain, where the choir was proach between voice teachers and choral ment and outreach to the community by named "Cultural Ambassador" to the directors to teaching aging singers in community choirs. As the number of aging singers in our musical communi ties grows, knowledgeable guidance of these singers will improve the artistic Developing excellent teacher-musicians experience for all involved. Physiologi cal changes, techniques for maintenance of healthful singing in the older adult, and the benefits of participation in voice studies in tandem with the choral experi ence are among the topics that will be u· ...... y discussed. Conservatory of Music Sangeetha Rayapati, soprano, is Master of Music in Music Education with KodaIy Emphasis assistant professor of music at Augustana • Choral Track College, where she teaches voice, peda gogy, and diction, and coordinates offer • Options for study at the KodaIy Institute in Hungary ings of the Augustana Center for Singing. Taught by internationally and nationally renowned American-Hungarian master teachers Jeanne She is a performing artist in various Wohlgamuth, Lilla Gabor ~nd Lenke Igo, ~es: summers~only programs have been especially designed for secondary choral musIc teachers. Applications are bemg accepted for the 2007 summer sessions: vocal genres, appearing frequently as a recitalist, concert soloist, and collaborator • Session I, June 25-July 13 • Session II, July 16-Aug. 3 with contemporary composers. She has For more information, contact Sandra Mathias (614) 236-6267 or e-mail participated in studies at the Mozru1eum [email protected]. More information about Capital's graduate music programs, as well as a downloadable application, is available at music.capital.edu. in Salzburg, Austria. She received spe cial recognition for her research on the The Education You Want. The Attention You Deserve. aging voice at the 2006 NATS National
100 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Convention. and Korea. Rayapati holds undergraduate de grees in vocal performance and nursing Teaching literacy Through from Valpara Concert literature iso University, and graduate This session will focus on improv degrees from ing the students' aural, sight-reading, the University and rhythm skills while simultaneously of Minnesota. teaching the music that will appear on She has been the next concert. a member of the vocal faculty at Lutheran Summer Robert J. Ward currently serves Music Academy, a national music festival as associate director of choral studies at for talented high school musicians, and a The Ohio State University (OSU), where music leader at Holden Village, a retreat he conducts the Men's Glee Club, the center in central Washington. Symphonic Choir, and teaches courses in conducting and Jon Hurty is professor of music and choral litera director of choral activities at Augustana ture. In addition College in Rock Island, lllinois, where to his teaching he directs the Augustana Choir, The and conducting Handel Oratorio Society, and is chair of assignments at the music department. He also directs OSU, Ward di the Adult Choir rects the boy at St. Paul Lu choir program theran Church for the Colum in Davenport, bus Children's Iowa. Before Choir. Prior to coming to Rock his appointment at The Ohio State Uni Island, he was versity, Ward was, for sixteen years, a director of cho member of the music faculty at Oklaho 50% tuition waiv~rs are available ral activities at ma State University. Ward has been hon for accomplished singers who Concordia Uni ored with invitations to present concerts desire to major in one of 40 versity in Irvine, and lecture demonstrations for ACDA's undergraduate or 11 graduate California. He completed his under Central Division, TCDA, Texas MEA, degrees at HPU. graduate degree at Bethany College in and the Oldahoma, Kansas; Missouri, Lindsborg, Kansas; his master's degree Mississippi, Utah, Arkansas, and Louisi at California State University-North ana Choral Directors Associations. He is Call (808) 544-1127 ridge; and his doctorate at the University currently the editor of a children's choral or email: [email protected] of lllinois. He is a guest conductor and music series and a men's choral series for more information. clinician throughout the United States. published through Santa Barbara Music www.hpu.edu/ensemble His choirs have toured the United States, Publishers. In 2001,Ward was awarded China, Germany, Italy, Austria, Japan the Director of Distinction Award by the
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 101 ARTS BUREAU FOR THE CONTINENTS
• Performances arranged in Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Oklahoma Choral Directors Association lectures by Weston Noble titled, Creating North America, Australia, and in 1997 was presented the Amoco the Special World, which was published :. New Zealand 8: Asia Outstanding Faculty Award at Oklahoma by GIA in : '.Experienced tour managers State University for outstanding under 2005. He is in . ',':' Sightseeing and fun .' .. ·orinclude any music festival graduate teaching. He holds a D.M.A. his fourteenth Intpmotiinnol Youth and from Michigan State University. year on the Vienna music faculty 2007 • July 12-15, 2008 of the Univer sity of Wash Teaching Musicianship in ington and has the Choral Rehearsal served as the music director for the North We often teach sight-singing and other west Chamber Chorus, a select forty-five-voice mixed Intp"notiinnol Music Festivals aspects of musicianship through exercises CIniemational Marching Bands and Orchestras) that are separate from the rehearsal. There ensemble in Seattle. 28-July 2, 2007 28-July 2, 2008 are a number of strategies for integrating musicianship training gradually into the rehearsal of literature that is too difficult for the choir to sightread. In this way, The Venus Factor pieces that might otherwise be taught purely by imitation can be used as a basis for continuing to develop student High school women's choirs, even musicianship. Rehearsal strategies for when auditioned, often seem to consider different types of choral pieces will be themselves "the other choir." This session presented using the Norman North High includes strategies devised in an effort to School Chorale, directed by Tony Gon convince girls everywhere that, yes, their zalez as the demonstration choir. More choir can be more musical, be held in information about them can be found on even higher esteem, have more fun, and page 61. sing amazing choral literature constructed especially for them. Also included will be Steven M. Demorest is the author activities that speak to girls through their of Building Choral Excellence: Teaching hearts, their heads, and their sense ofhu mor, and choral music that speaks to their Lois Harper, SA, M.Ed, ARCT Sight-singing in the Choral Rehearsal, emotional and musical intelligence. The Arts Bureau for the Continents published by Oxford University Press. He 350 Sparks Street - Suite 207 bas presented clinics on sight-singing, North Crowley High School Women's Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1 R7S8 choral techniques, and choral research Chamber Choir, directed by Robyn Hol TF: 800-267-8526 at the state, regional, and national level. limon, will serve as the demonstration Tel: 613-234-3360 He is the author of numerous articles on choir. More information about them can 613-236-2636 choral music for the Choral Journal, the be found on page 61. [email protected] Music Educators Journal, the Journal www.abc.ca of Research in Music Education, and Marcia Patton has taught music at the International Journal of Research all levels (K-12) in Casper, Wyoming. on Choral Singing. He edited a series of She is recently retired as choral director
102 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 from Kelly Walsh High School, where jazz clinician and adjudicator, work Northwest. Kunz regularly writes ar her choirs per ing with groups rangements for Farwest Jazz and his formed on throughout the own performing ensemble, Groove For state and di Northwest on Thought. vision ACDA a regular basis. and MENC His own school conventions. groups have won Patton is in her numerous awards Unpublished Gems twenty-eighth at jazz festivals for Male Chorus year as director throughout the of the Casper region. Pierce A number of fine works written for Children's College's Far male chorus often never see publication. Chorale, which west Jazz has placed first numerous times This session will introduce a number has appeared on state, division, and na at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and of unpublished works for male voices tional ACDA and MENC conventions. the Reno Jazz Festival and is regarded through recorded performances played She was the 2002 Wyoming Teacher of as one of the finest collegiate ensembles in the session and partial reproductions the Year. Patton is past president ofWyo in the country. His previous high school of scores in a packet that conductors may ming ACDA and is the Northwest Divi groups have been equally successful, keep. Composer contact information will sion R&S Chair for Women's Choirs. She placing first at festivals throughout the be included in the score packet. There founded the Wyoming ACDA Children's State Honor Choir, now in its eleventh season.
Under the Musical Microscope: Precision in Jazz Rehearsals
This session deals with the finer points of effective vocal jazz rehearsal tips and techniques. Focusing on style, skill build ing, and dealing with complex harmonic integrity, Kunz along with Groove For Thought shares his tricks of the trade for successfully adapting charts to the indi vidual group and developing high quality vocal jazz ensembles year after year.
Kelly Kunz is director of choral mu sic at Pierce College and is an adjunct faculty member at Pacific Lutheran Uni versity. Both schools are in the Tacoma, Washington area. Kunz is a noted vocal
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 103 will also be a panel of composers, con ley Ensemble, and the Virginia Glee Club, and twenty foreign countries. He earned ductors, and publishers to discuss various the 136-year-old degrees from Pomona College and the aspects of commissioning, composition, men's chorus at New England Conservatory. From 1984 performance, and publishing. Panelists the. University -88, Albinder was director of choral will include Jameson Marvin, conductor of Virginia. He activities at Davidson College. He is the of the Harvard Glee Club and Steven was a member of National R&S Chair for Male Choirs, Sametz, composer and director of choral Chanticleer for vice-chair of Intercollegiate Men's cho activities at Lehigh University. eleven years, dur ruses, a national board member of the ing which time he National Collegiate Choral Organization Frank Albinder lives in Washington, recorded eighteen and vice-president of ChoralNet.org. He D.C., where he is music director of the CDs, performed sings as part of the professional music Washington Men's Camerata, the Wood- in all fifty states, staff at St. John's Church, the Church of
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104 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 the Presidents. .1-.-JiH..--·.7,:~~-.,-,.-~~-:.·:·.:·~·:·~··.···~.·.~·J~ .. ~t-.:·~-·~'-,.-:-!l-:--"·T.·Ji··!IIi~:lCll) :1·Whypay.an .• arrnal)~.al~g.f6racllst()miz~~itinercir'Y?<1: Writing and Publishing in the Choral Journal ~··~Q@i?~~~~i: This Choral Journal sponsored clinic : W~~Ou [§l;r@@aa@~G &Q'lffil[jJ®@W)@[j)~~o :: invites participants to come prepared with an idea, a thesis statement, or a work CII). in-progress toward preparing an article or a column idea for submission in the • ·~~~~QWG@owg Choral Journal, the official publication • • Top notch perform~lJc:? ~e~u~s. . • 3, 4, & 5 star hotels of ACDA. Clinic participants will work • !~~~~!!J~~~.K$..d~~Aror family and. spectators '. directly through groups with members ...... ~~'v ,'", . nd . of the editorial board toward advancing promising ideas into articles for possible Choral Journal publication.
Timothy W. Sharp and Carroll Gonzo convene the Choral Journal Editorial Board for this interactive clinic. Sharp has been a member of the Editorial Board since 1990. He first edited the Re search Report Column, and then, under the direction of the board, created the Halleluia! column. He is a member of the ACDA Research & Publications Committee and has written numerous column, feature, and review articles for Choral Journal and other scholarly publications. Sharp holds the Elizabeth G. Daughhill Chair in Fine Arts at Rhodes College and directs the Rhodes Singers and MasterSingers Chorale.
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 105 Carroll Gonzo is the Chiuminnato Arbor; University of Wisconsin, Madi Multicultural Resource Room Distinguished Professor of Research son; Hartt School of Music, Hartford; and in Music Education at the University the University Guides to Languages St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, of Texas at of the World where he conducts the Women's Choir, Austin. Gonzo teaches research, and supervises the writ has received a The Multicultural Resource Room will ing of masters theses. He received his number of re feature information about human, print, B.M. from Lawrence University, and an search grants, media and Intemet resources for many M.M., and Ph.D. from the University of published 50 languages of the world. Lawrence Bumett Wisconsin in Madison. He has served on articles in pro will be presiding. the faculties of the University of illinois, fessional re Urbana; University of Michigan, Ann search joumals, Lawrence Burnett is a professor of and contrib music, choral director, and department uted chapters chair at Carlton College in Northfield, to three published textbooks. He is the Minnesota, where he conducts the Carl editor of the Choral Journal. Gonzo has ton Singers, the Men's Chorus, Bella conducted choral festivals and served as Cantemus and the Carleton College Com clinician and adjudicator throughout the munity Chorus. Additionally, he teaches Part United States, and Canada. He served as vocal diction, choral literature, conduct Predominant a contributing textbook author for Silver Recordings ing, and African-American sacred music Burdett and Gin, a subsidiary of Scott history. Foresman Publishing Company. PART STUDY RECORDINGS Bumett's teaching experience spans thirty years in public schools and colleg Complete choral productions es, and he has served as artistic director, with each voice part highlighted by professional singers! Our library features works such as: Rutter's Requiem, Gloria & lvIagnificat Faure Requiem Mozart Requiem Vivaldi Gloria Handel's lvIessiah Mass in G by Schubert Coronation lvIass by Mozart ...... and many more- including titles for SATB, elementary, SSAA and TTBB choir "PPR's study recordings are excellent ..... it's a wondeljitl product done by a company that cares about quality work and making a product that's Co lIsejit! tool for students. " Lance C. Bristol, Cbair of Choral Affairs, Ncbruslm MEA View our catalog online: www.partpred07ninant.com. e-mail: [email protected] TOLL FREE: 800-290-SING local: 253-851-0290 fax.: 253-851-0289 2617 39th St NW Gig Harbor WA 98335
106 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 guest conductor, clinician, and adjudica Research grants include awards from the The Cutting Edge In Choral tor for numerous choral festivals, honor Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Studies-What's up Doc? choirs, cho- the creation and development of a Web ral and solo database to serve as a primary aid for competitions the study and performance of spirituals, Choral conductors share their re and work hymns, gospel music, and other composi search interests through posters display shops in the tions by African Americans. ing information about their topics and United States Burnett received a B.A. in vocal music spoken presentations. Attendees will and Canada. education from Texas A&I University, be able to interact with the presenters In addition to an M.M. in choral conducting, vocal individually and to obtain abstracts ACDA, he is pedagogy, and vocal perfonnance from of their work. A wide range of topics a member of Eastern New Mexico University, and a and research methods is anticipated. MENC, the D.M.A. in choral conducting from the Center for University of Texas in Austin. He was a Black Music Research, the College appointed National R&S Chair for Ethnic Music Society, the National Association and Multicultural Perspectives in 2003. of Negro Musicians, Inc. and the Gospel Music Workshop of America. He is actively engaged in researching the histories of alTangers, composers, conductors, and performers who have kept alive the styles and traditions of African-American spirituals through public performances and recordings.
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Dominick DiOrio recently received his bachelor of While at Ithaca College, Dominick studied conduct music in composition from Ithaca College (IC), com ing for three years with Janet Galvan, and in 2005, he pleting 40 pieces and two recitals. During his time was recognized nationally as a finalist in the ACDA there, he wrote commissions for the Ithaca Community Undergraduate Student Conducting Competition at the Concert Band and the Ithaca Chldren's Choir, while ACDA Los Angeles National Convention. He has con other works were read by the Ithaca College Wind ducted the Yale Camerata, Ithaca Children's Choir, and Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. His arrangements the Young People's Chorus of NYC, among others. have been performed by the IC Women's Chorale in A recipient of a prestigious Phi Kappa Phi National Ireland and by the IC Symphonic Band. Recently, he was Graduate Fellowship for 2006-07, Dominick now named the winner of the Raymond W. Brock Memorial continues his musical studies at Yale University as a Student Composition Prize and his work, The Soul's master of music candidate in the choral conducting Passing, will be performed in Miami, FL at the ACDA program with Marguerite Brooks and Simon Car National Convention in March 2007. His choral works rington. have been published by the Roger Dean Publishing Company (a division of the Lorenz Corp).
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A yearlong educational program guided by Dr. Craig Jessop, Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir What makes this a one-of-a-kind program?
• There is no participation fee. • Selected choirs prepare Brahms's A German Requiem for performance at the Festival's final concert. • Dr. Jessop and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir host a professional development weekend for participating choral directors. • Dr. Jessop visits each high school for a full day of rehearsals. • Participants travel to New York for four days of intensive rehearsals and a final performance at Carnegie Hall by the combined choirs with the Orchestra of St. Luke's under the baton of Dr. Jessop. • These are the only high school choirs presented at Carnegie Hall by Carnegie Hall.
Application deadline: April 20, 2007.
"This Festival differs from any other musical experience I have ever had. It is as much a professional development experience for the educators as it is a quality learning experience for the students. " -2005-2006 Participating Choir Director Boychoirs Anne Tomlinson, Karen Bruno, During this round table discussion, Sandy Holland, Robyn Lana; Christy three notable conductors will describe Elsner; Linda Berg their philosophies of choral conducting and share methods they use with student Composing Music This session will explore program conductors to nurture their creative vision for Boychoirs ming ideas/processes and choral selec and/or their commitment to quality. Fol tions for treble choir and SATB chorus, lowing thirty minutes of presentations, treble choir and orchestra, and treble the conferees will have the opportunity Presiding: choir with various instrumentations. to ask questions. Thomas Sibley, Divisional R & S Chairs will serve as National R&S Chair, Boychoirs panelists and will encourage discussion among participants regarding such lit Presenters: erature. Additionally, composer David Dr. Michael Braz and Brunner, will discuss music which he Thomas E. Sibley has written for treble voices/orches tra/instrumentation. (Participants will receive a formal list of repertoire in the A published composer will lead a Assistant Professor discussion and involve participants in a form of a handout.) hands on experience in composing choral Ensembles and Conducting (26UC1304) College-Conservatory of Music. compositions for boy choirs and a variety The Choral Studies Program of the Ensembles and Con of SA voicing. Participants will have an ducting Division of the College-Conservatory of Music, a comprehensive performing arts school, seeks an opportunity to begin composing a selec outstanding musician and conductor for a tenure-track appointment beginning In the Fall of2007. Responsibili tion for their choir. Colleges & ties include conducting the Chorale, the primary choral ensemble for undergraduate voice majors, teaching Universities conducting at graduate and undergraduate levels, and teaching choral literature and related styles and perfor mance practices for graduate choral conducting majors. With the Director of Choral Studies, the candidate will administrate activities ofthe Choral Studies Program, a program recognized internationally for excellence. Training Choral Conductors in Children's Choirs Appointment is expected to be at the rank of Assistant the Twenty-First Century: Professor and will be effective September 1, 2007. Salary and academic rank commensurate with educational Nurturing Creative Vision and background and experience. Opportunity for summer teaching available. Commitment to Quality Minimum Qualifications:The candidate should demon Children's Choir Repertoire: strate conducting experience with appropriate levels of choral and instrumental ensembles in academic and From the Usual to the professional environments, a broad-based knowledge "Not-so-Unsual" of choral literature and conducting pedagogy, and suc cessful teaching atthe graduate level, Candidate should Presiding: hold a DMA or the equivalent professional experience. Kevin Fenton, The Ideal candidate will demonstrate outstanding strengths in one or more of the following areas: con Presiding: National R&S Chair, ducting children's, high school, university, symphonic Colleges & Universities or professional choirs. Lynne Gackle For additional information and to apply for position National R&S Chair, 1126UC1304, please see www.jobsatuc.com. Presenters: Children's Choirs The University of Cincinnati Craig Arnold, Luther College; is an affirmative action/ UNIYZRSITY OF 1(,~ Cincinnati Ann Howard Jones, Boston Univ.; equal opportunity employer. Presenters: UC is a smoke-free work environ David Brunner, composer; Andre Thomas, Florida State Univ. ment.
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 113 Community Choirs Discussion by panel members con Presiding cerning innovative ideas to increase Lawrence Burnett, membership in the community choirs National R&S Chair, Ethnic & Multicultural Perspectives Recruiting New Singers for they conduct. Audience participation is an important part of this process. the Community Choir Presenters Rollo Dilworth and Francisco Nunez, Co-Conductors of the National Presiding: Multicultural Honor Choir W. Robert Johnson, Ethnic.And .. National R&S Chair Muitic'u'lfural The co-conductors of the national honor Community Choirs choir will lead a discussion on perform Perspectives ing music from the many cultures of the Presenter: Moderator: world, with a focus on the honor choir's Cindy Bell, Aaron Copland School of repertoire. The panel will also include Music; Panel members: JoAnn Miller, The Culture of some of the composers whose works will Fargo-Moorhead Chamber Choir and Multicultural Choral Music be performed. Ronald Sayer, Marshall Community Choir Junior Highl Middle School
f~~~ Summer festival and Workshop Listings What Kids Learn About Music as They Learn The Music
The March issue of Choral Journal will list (at no charge) choral events taking place between May I and September 15,2007. The events can include festivals, workshops, clinics, seminars, masterclasses, conferences, or summer courses. Presiding Anyone wanting to include a listing in this issue can e-mail their information to: Sandi Gesler,
Date This interactive session will demon Title of Event strating rehearsal activities to promote Location of Event student learning of musical context. The Clinicians session will present strategies and mate Contact Name rials related to the National Standards of Contact Information Music Education.
114 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Male Choirs SMOKY MOUNTAIN Music of Veljo Tormis for Male Chorus MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 2 or 3 nights in
Presiding: GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE Frank Albinder, Apri120-21 April 27-28 May 4-5 May 11-12 National R&S Chair, Competition in: Concert Choir' Chamber Choir' Men and Women's Chorus Male Choirs Madrigal Choir • Jazz Choir • Show Choir Festival Director: Dr. W J Julian Presenter: Director ofBands Emeritus, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Erick Lichte, Artistic Director of the Toll-free: (800) 553-1032 (865) 947-1853 professional male vocal ensemble Fax: (865) 938-4081 (865) 693-5470 Cantus, Minneapolis, MN. E-mail: [email protected] Visit us online at www.SMMFestival.com for detailed infonnation book and registration fonn Veljo Tormis, prominent Estonian composer, has written an enormous TOTAL COST: $141 per person (quad occupancy, 2 nights' package) amount of choral music, a substantial $166 per person (quad occupancy, 3 nights' package) portion of which is for male chorus. Er One complimentary package for director. Additional packages available. ick Lichte will present a broad survey of Tormis's works for male chorus provid In our 25th year, the experienced, permanent staffinsures a smooth-running ing repertoire lists, score samples, and weekend in the heart of the beautifitl Smoky Mountains. The festival includes either a two or three-night package with accommodations in afirst class audio examples. Gatlinburg motel (all with pools); adjudication by nationally lmovvnjudges; trophies to winning groups; and plaques to all participating groups.
Adjudicators for the 2007 Smoley Mountain Music Festival will include: Music In Worship Dr. Charles Ball (University of Tennessee @ Knoxville) Dr. Angela Batey (University of Tennessee @Knoxville) George Bitzas (University of Tennessee @ Knoxville) Dr. Duncan Couch (Stetson University) Relevant Issues for our Dr. Eph Ehly (University of Missouri @Kansas City) Contemporary Church Dr. Kenneth Fulton (Louisiana State University) Dr. Craig Jessop (Monnon Tabemac1e Choir) Dr. Jerry McCoy (North Texas State University) Dr. Weston Noble (Luther College) Presiding Dr. Michael Schwartzkopf (Indiana University) Paul A. Aitken Dr. Edgar Scruggs (Belmont University) Dr. Kirby Shaw (Southem Oregon University) National R&S Chair Dr. Thomas Smith (Aubum University) Music in Worship Dr. Eric Thorson (Carson-Newman College) Festival Mailing Address: 601 Westborough Rd., Knoxville. TN 37909
January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 115 Presenters David Ellison, Ben Brody, Charles King, Noel Lovelace, Alicia Walker and Bryan Taylor, Division R&S Chairs
Topics include: The future of choral music in the modem church; global music in worship; keeping yourself and your senior pastor out of divorce court, and finding the balance between traditional and contemporary music stylings. Divi Hibbing, MN Thousand Oaks, CA Cherry Hills Village, CO sion chairs will lead in the discussion Feb. 17 .. 7:30 p.m. March 1,. 7:30 p.m. March 6 ,. 7:30 p.m. Hibbing High School Auditorium Ascension Lutheran Church Bethany Lutheran Church of these important issues that challenge 800 21St st. E. 1600E. Hillcrest Drive 4500 E. Hampden Ave. church musicians. Ca1l2I8.262. 04I7 for tickets. CaIl80S·49S.0406 for tickets. Call303·s04·2674 for tickets. Brainerd, MN Los Angeles Sioux Falls, SD Feb. 18 .. 2 p.m. March 2,.8 p.m. March 8 ,. 7 p.m. Tornstrom Auditorium Zipper Concert Hall at the Our Savior's Lutheran Church Senior High Choirs 804 OakSt. Colburn School 909 33rd st. W. Call 2I8.829.SI47 for tickets. 200 S. Grand.Ave. Call60S.338.7473 or 60S.338.S920 Call 866420.I234 for tickets. for tickets. Paradise Valley, AZ The Three Rs Feb. 24 ,. 7 p.m. Fresno, CA Overland Park, KS Camelback Bible Church March 3 .. 8 p.m. March 9 ,. 7:30 p.m. of Rehearsal Pacing: 3900 E. Stanford Drive St. Anthony of Padua Atonement Lutheran Church Rehearse, Respond, and Ca1l602·9SS.6370 for tickets. 5770 N. Maroa Ave. 9948 Metcalf Ave. Reinforce Call SS9.439. ot24 for tickets. Call8I6.23S.6222 or 888.286.4849 Sun City West, AZ for tickets. Feb. 25 .. 3 p.m. Henderson, NV Lord of Life Lutheran Church March 4 '• 6:30 p.m. st. Paul. MN Presiding: 13724 W. Meeker Blvd. Liberty High School March 10 ,. 7:30 p.m. Call 623.S84.2000 for tickets. 3700 Liberty Heights Ave. Sal Cicciarella, Benson Great Hall Call 702. 799.227°, ext. 40So for Bethel University National R&S Chair tickets. Tucson, AZ 3900 Bethel Drive Senior High Choirs Feb. 26 .. 7 p.m. Ca1l6SI.638.6333 or 866.424.4849 Catalina Foothills High School Salt Lake City for tickets. 4300 East Sunrise Drive March 5 ,. 7 p.m. Call S20.404.]I48 or S20.327- 6S2I First Presbyterian Church Moorhead, MN for tickets. 12 CSt. March 11,. 7:30 p.m. Call 80I.363.3889 for tickets. Memorial Auditorium h,j Music Manager Solana Beach, CA Concordia College Feb. 27" 7 p.m. 9018th st. S. r Software 5.0™ Calvary Lutheran Church Admission is free 424 Via de la Valle Cross-platform ... Mac or Windows Call 8S8.404.0309for tickets. Get information and demos at www.musicmanager.com www.ConcordiaCollege.edujchoirtour Toll Free (800) 282-9220 a/so availab/e for church musicians ... CONCORDIA COLLEGE MOORHEAD MINNESOTA WorshipManager™
116 CHORAL JOURNAL • January 2007 Presenter: Two-year Colleges program, fitting into the community col Shannon Chase lege culture, administration and staffing issues will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to offer input and This session will focus on strategies Growing a Relevant, Dynamic voice concerns. that promote a high level of attentive Music Program in a ness and participation from choral sing Two-YearSchool Setting ers resulting in a lively and productive rehearsal. This session will demonstrate Vocal Jazz how the 3-step "rehearse, respond, and Presiding reinforce" approach encourages fast Larry Stukenholtz, paced and efficient teaching that results in National R&S Chair, An Open Dialogue music-making from day one for choirs of Two-Year Colleges with Publishers: What Do You all ages and ability levels. Shannon Chase Need From Them? will discuss the technique's application Presenting over longer periods of time which pro Tammie Burger PhD, Presiding mote the retention of rehearsal progress Arkansas State University Kirk Marcy, during the school year. National R&S Chair, Vocal Jazz This session will explore the challeng es inherent in growing a music program Presenters Show Choirs from the ground up--yes, it can be done! Editorial representatives from The variations available in a two-year publishers of vocal jazz literature
How Can Established Writers and Publishers Better Serve the Showchoir Community?
Presiding Ken Thomas, National R&S Chair, Showchoirs
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January 2007 .. CHORAL JOURNAL 117 Each representative will have a 1-2 minute opportunity to give a synopsis of their vocal jazz publishing (including large multi-national companies, mid-size regional companies, and independent 'bedroom publishing companies') fol lowed by an opportunity for constituents to address needs in their own program for specific kinds of literature, teachable materials, etc.
Women's Choirs
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Presiding Lisa Fredenburgh, National R&S Chair, Women's Choirs
Presenter Jonathan Hirsh Smith College
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Jonathan Hirsh will present his ideas and techniques for voicing and placement Some of our Choral Clients: of singers in women's choirs and then Choral Arts Society of Washington open the floor for discussion and sharing Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus San Francisco Girls Chorus from attendees. St. Olaf Choir VocalEssence Yale Alumni Chorus Yale Glee Club Youth & Student Activities
R.kafsody! PRAGUE CHILDREN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL Publisher's Packet Blues: July 26 - August 6, 2007 Bad Choral Music and How to Spot it Distinguished Guest Conductor Joan Gregoryk Performances in Prague, Vienna and Salzburg Presiding ~ Celebratioll of Classical Movement's 5'" Rhapsody Festival ~ Nancy Cox, National R&S Chair
Presenter: Paul Rardin University of Michigan Cfnefodia! CHILDREN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL, SOUTH AMERICA Participants will read through a brand July 5 - July 17, 2007 new choral composition by the clini cian, and will interactively identify those Distinguished Guest Conductor Dr. Doreen Rao qualities that make it truly awful. Topics Performances in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires include gratuitous modulation, vapid ~ Exclusive festival appearallce by Dl: Doreen Rao ~ texts, unoriginal accompaniment figures, ~ Doreen Rao's Conducting Apprenticeship Programfor emerging choral directors ~ and unprepared seconds/ninths used in derivative ostinati. The proliferation of Some Past Festival Participants: Appalachian Children's Chorus mediocre choral music should be our Augusta Children's Chorale great concern; this session approaches it Barrington Children'S Choir in a lighthearted and participatory way, Children's Chorus of Sussex County Children's Chorus of Washington and also includes examples of music Dulwich College Shanghai Choir more worthy of our time and attention. Miami Children's Chorus Minnetonka Chamber Choir Oakville Children's Choir, Ontario Canada Prague Children's Chorus "Zvonecek" St. Louis Children's Choirs Spokane Area Children's Chorus
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January 2007 • CHORAL JOURNAL 119 Advertisers Index . ACFEA Tour Consultants 71 ACIS Performance Tours 29 _ .ACD.A .ADVOC.ACY RESOEUTION Alfred Publishing Co, Inc. 26 Alliance Music Publications 31 Ambassador Tours 9 Arts Bureau for the Continents 102 /WHEREAS, the human spiritis elevated to a broader understanding Azuza Pacific University 20 of itself through study· and performance in the aesthetic arts, and Baerenreiter 74 '. '.', Boston Conservatory 66 , " , ! > Brehm Center for Worship 60 WHEREAS, serious cutbacks in funding artd.support havesteadilY. British-European Specialty Tours 80 C. F. Peters Music Publishing 13 eroded state institutions and their programs throughout olircountry, Capital University 100 Carnegie Hall 112 Clarion Records 98 BE IT RESOLVEJ) that all citizens of the United States actively Classical Movements 119 ,.vo~cetheir affirmative. and.CQllectiyeSllpPQrtiQ1:l1e<::ess~ryJ\ll],<:liJ1g at.. , Collegiate Apparel 45 Concept Tours 52 the local, state, and national levels .of education and government,to Concordia College 106 . ensure the survival of arts programsfor this and futuregenerati.ons. Crossroads Children's Chorus 63 . ", " ," "", Dalcroze Eurhymthmics Workshop 96 Disney IBC ECS Publishing 107 Fred Waring's America 45 Friendship Ambassadors 28 GIA Publications, Inc 58 BOOK and MUSIC PUBLISHERS and Gladde Music Publications 38 COMPACT DISC DISTRIBUTORS Hal Leonard Publishing Corp. 79 Harvard University 47 Send books, octavos, and discs for review to: Hawaii Music Festivals 49 Choral Journal Hawaii Pacific University 101 Heritage Festivals 8 P.O. Box 2720 Hinshaw Music Inc. 89 Oklahoma City, Oldahoma 73101 Holy Names University 92 Houghton College 12 Telephone: 405/232-8161 Indianapolis Children's Choir 41 Interkultur Foundation 51 Internationale Bachadamie Stuttgart 77 CHORAL REVIEWERS Intropa Tours 74 ACDA members wishing to review choral music should contact: Kaleidoscope Adventures 63 Kingsway International IFC Lyn Schenbeck Lyric Choir Gowns 40 Coweta County Schools Music Department Music Celebrations International 43 Music Contact International 54 Telephone 770/683-6837 Music Manager Software 117 E-mail
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