ANTIPHON THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ARIZONA CHAPTER of the AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION Fall 2016 Volume 21, Issue 1 Arizona ACDA Leadership Arizona ACDA Repertoire & Standards Chairs President: Elizabeth Schauer Boychoirs: Albert Lee University of Arizona, Tucson Akimel A-al Middle School, Phoenix St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Tucson Phoenix Boys Choir, Phoenix Past President: Greg Hebert Children and Youth Community Choirs: Aimee Stewart Corona del Sol High School, Tempe Chandler Children’s Choir, Chandler St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Phoenix College and University Choirs: Ryan Holder President-Elect: Ryan Holder Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Church of the Red Rocks, Sedona The Church of the Red Rocks, Sedona Community Choirs: Luke Lusted Camelback Bible Church, Paradise Valley Treasurer: Joyce Bertilson Paradise Valley School District, Phoenix Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives: Jason Thompson Arizona State University, Tempe Secretary: Stephanie Brewer Alhambra High School, Phoenix Junior High/Middle School Choirs: Melanie Openshaw Stapley Junior High School, Mesa Antiphon Editor: Caleb Nihira Christ Presbyterian Church, Tucson Male Choirs: Michael Frongillo Bisbee Community Chorus, Bisbee Apollo High School, Glendale Antiphon Assistant Editor: Erin Plisco Music in Worship: Doug Benton Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Tucson Gold Canyon United Methodist Church, Gold Canyon Christ Church United Methodist, Tucson Senior High School Choirs: Joseph Johnston Red Mountain High School, Mesa Conference Reading Session Chair: Matthew Flora Mesa Community College, Mesa Campo Verde High School, Gilbert Christ Church Anglican, Phoenix Show Choirs: Jordan Keith Safford High School, Safford Hospitality Chair: Sherie Kent Whitman Elementary School, Mesa Two-Year College Choirs: Adam Stich Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale Membership Chair: Sharon Hansen Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Vocal Jazz: Rita Scholz Highland High School, Gilbert Website Manager: David Topping Faith United Methodist Church, Phoenix Women’s Choirs: Marcela Molina Tucson Girls Chorus, Tucson Phoenix Chorale, Phoenix Youth and Student Activities: Thomas Alcaraz Desert Sands Middle School, Phoenix (Visit our webpage for email addresses for all AzACDA leaders.) 2 | ANTIPHON—Fall 2016 TH S SSUE 4 From the President 6 From the Editor 7 Introducing New Board Members 9 AzACDA Choral Director of the Year Award 10 Candidates for AzACDA President ARTICLES 12 From Concept to Concert: Considerations for Hiring Professional Instrumentalists Part II: Rehearsal and Concert Procedures Luke Lusted 17 Style in Pre-Romantic Music, Part II Brent Rogers 19 Show Choir 101—Important Decisions to Make When Directing a Show Choir Jordan Keith 21 Empowerment: The Effect of Multicultural Music on Developing Women’s Choirs Sarah Ross 23 Ringing, Singing, & ORGAN-izing Doug Benton 24 Conductor Perspectives: An Interview with Dr. Edith Copley Caleb Nihira 28 CHORAL REVIEWS Boychoirs by Albert Lee Show Choirs by Jordan Keith WHAT’S HAPPENING IN ARIZONA CHORAL MUSIC? 30 2016 ACDA Student Symposium 32 2016 AzACDA Summer Conference 34 Congratulations to Our Cantaremos Singers! 37 AzACDA Diamondbacks Nights 37 University of Arizona High School Honor Choir ADVERTISERS INDEX 8 University of Arizona Graduate Choral Program 22 ProMusica Arizona 29 Malmark Handbells – Doug Benton 31 Arizona State University Choral Department 35 True Concord Voices and Orchestra 38 Robert Ashbaugh Digital Design & Imaging www.azacda.org | 3 rom the President: F Trying New Things Saturday, September 10, your dedicated AzACDA board members met and discussed the future of our organization. Last year (the board’s first year), the On focus was on vision: vision for our individual areas and constituencies, and vision for our organization. Many of these visions already have been realized or are on their way to being realized. This year (the board’s second and last), the focus is on defining our specific purpose, and the strengths and challenges we have in achieving this purpose over the long-term, not just during our individual terms of office. Elizabeth Schauer AzACDA President [email protected] The dedicated members of the AzACDA Board meet in September to articulate our purpose and plot a journey to achieve our goals and vision toward that purpose. The purpose of AzACDA is to support educators and directors, and to promote and serve as a voice for choral music in our state. The board measures our efforts and processes through this lens to ascertain that we are serving the membership in the very best ways we can. We identified as a strength our willingness to try new things. This is not a little thing in an organization that experiences significant turn-over every two years: identifying unmet needs and figuring out ways to meet them, evaluating our efforts, building on our successes, keeping what works, adjusting or tossing what doesn’t. For a volunteer board to unselfishly serve with the benefit of the organization’s future in mind is vital. It has been exciting (and exhausting!) doing the important work of AzACDA in this way with such an incredible, creative and hard-working group of people. Below are some of the things we have tried and some of our successes since my last President’s Letter. Thanks to everyone who has been part of the discussion and vision of AzACDA to help us achieve them! 4 | ANTIPHON—Fall 2016 On May 6, we hosted our annual Junior High/Middle School Choral Festival at Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix. Jason Thompson, Sammy Brauer, Herbert Washington and Joseph Johnston served as clinicians for the 27 choirs who participated. Congratulations and thanks to Melanie Openshaw for organizing this important event. In June President-Elect Ryan Holder and Treasure Joyce Bertilson traveled to Minneapolis to attend the ACDA National Leadership Conference to connect with other state and divisional leaders, to share the important work we are doing in Arizona, to tour the 2017 national conference facilities, and to learn about new initiatives and important changes in our organization. Thank you for representing us and sharing with our state board when you returned. In July we came together for our AzACDA Summer Conference, trying out our new conference home. While the dates were not ideal for everyone, we still had 140 people in attendance. Thanks to Ryan Holder’s surveys of people who attended as well as people who attended in the past but didn’t come this year, we have a wealth of information about how we can better serve our membership in the future. It was such a pleasure to see such a large part of our Arizona choral community in attendance! In July we also welcomed Rita Scholz, Caleb Nihira, Tom Peterson, Stephanie Brewer and Thomas Alcaraz to the board. In September we had our fall board meeting, and enjoyed the participation of the following ACDA student leaders: Grace Kim, Daniel Corrales and Andrew Heidorn (UA) and Allie Fardelos (NAU). In September we hosted two Dbacks Choir Nights with hundreds of singers from throughout the state participating under the direction of Jason Thompson and Sharon Hansen. Congratulations to Greg Hebert for his outstanding work on this. In September we also co-hosted the ACDA Student Symposium. After three successive years of Arizona hosts, the symposium, formerly a Western Division event, seems to have found its home here. Congratulations to Dr. Schildkret, Julie Neish, Jenny Madruga and the ASU Student Chapter for their success with this event. 55 attendees representing 9 different colleges and universities participated this year. In September we participated in the annual ACDA Sing-Up Membership Drive. Look for results of our efforts in the next Antiphon. Many thanks to Sharon Hansen and Thomas Alcaraz for their good work on this important effort. In October we co-hosted our first collaborative Music in Worship event, RINGING, SINGING, & ORGAN-izing at First United Methodist Church in Phoenix. The event, jointly sponsored by American Guild of Organists, Handbell Musicians of America and ACDA, had 33 attendees at this inaugural event. Congratulations to Doug Benton and all of the other organizers. In November we will host the annual Cantaremos Festival, an honor choir experience for 5th-9th graders. This year over 300 children auditioned, and 235 singers will benefit from this excellent opportunity. Congratulations to Aimee Stewart for her continued work to make this event even better. In November, nine Arizona collegiate choirs will come together in Sun City for our first Collegiate Choral Festival. The choirs will sing for each other and will join together to close the evening with a massed performance of “The Heavens are Telling” from F.J. Haydn’s masterful oratorio The Creation. Congratulations to Adam Stich for getting this event off the ground. It’s such a pleasure to write these letters for each Antiphon issue and to reflect on the vibrant community of choral leaders we have in this state. I’m so grateful for each of you, and for the opportunity to serve. Sincerely, Elizabeth Schauer www.azacda.org | 5 Dear Arizona Choral Musicians, am thrilled to be joining the board of AzACDA as editor of the ANTIPHON and to collaborate with President Elizabeth Schauer, our designer Robert Ashbaugh, and you, I the fellow constituency and readership. I look forward to continuing the excellent work put in place by Thomas Lerew, and all those that came before him in this position. In many ways, this issue of the ANTIPHON is a continuation of the spring issue. We have the second halves of two excellent articles from the spring: Brent Rogers’ article Style in pre-Romantic Music and Luke Lusted’s article on hiring, working with, and rehearsing an orchestra to mount a large scale choral-orchestral work. I have chosen to continue the “Conductor’s Perspective” column of the ANTIPHON. This issue will feature Northern Arizona University’s Edith Copley, conductor of the Shrine of the Ages Choir.