“We were so grateful for the opportunity to have a Q&A session with Michael and Shantel. To hear the perspective of the composer and lyricist was powerful for my students, and answered many questions we all had about the process. After the experience, one of my students emailed me to say it was one of the most meaningful events of this school year for her. We will use the responses and stories moving forward as we continue our work with Identity, personal, and perceived of ourselves and others.”
-Christina Flateau and the Woodsville High School Choirs
To learn more, REGISTER for our INFORMATIONAL MEETING on Thursday, Dec 17, 7:30 PM Eastern Time: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvceuorjgiHNGZrF5YTVP_1cmBSqY_tLMD
To learn more, REGISTER for our INFORMATIONAL MEETING on Friday, Dec 18, 12:00 PM Eastern Time: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcu6opjgtGtLbX4A9BzXQZgj-rAlVnIqa
TO JOIN as a COMMISSIONING CHORAL ORGANIZATION, click HERE: https://consortio.io/mbqstudio/pandemic-proof-choral-projects-where-we-find-ourselves
CHOIRS! Curriculum for Winter and Spring 2021.
Support New Music
This project is befitting of the time we live in – a strong message relating to acceptance and subverting the narrative from a hundred years ago
Open to choirs of SATB, SAB, SSAA, and 2-part voicings.
5 songs, 4 minutes each (program one, several, or all five songs)
Reduced participation fee to adapt to compromised budgets (please help spread the word, if you can!)
Limited to first 50 choirs (60% openings currently reserved or filled)
Team includes: Margaret Sartor, Alex Harris, photographers, curators, authors; Dr. Sherry Boyd, Humanities Professor, North Lake College; Chantal Sellers, author and lyricist, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, composer; with Tina Sayers, Mapleseed Creative Consulting, LLC.
VIDEOS: Discover the Journey
MUSIC: Rehearse and Sing!
5 movements for a total of 20-22 minutes, based on portrait photos from Hugh Mangum’s collection. Participants may choose to program one movement, multiple movements, or the entire song cycle.
Plans are being developed to include a BONUS photography project of self-portraits.
This will provide an online option to allow for continuity of the project in the event the school year is interrupted.
This project is also cross-curricular, and each choir will receive additional PDF sheet with prompts for the subjects of History/Social Studies, Language Arts, Photography/Art, plus possible additional subjects.
Rehearsal tracks will be made available.
Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris will be providing additional photographs from Hugh Mangum’s collection so that each choir can present a video montage of the photos for their virtual or live performance of “Where We Find Ourselves”.
To be released: January 11th, 2021
Registration Deadline: January 10th 2021
Fee per choir: $150
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