We tend to look at the top people in any given profession and marvel at their skill while conveniently forgetting that they probably began learning their particular craft at a very young age. The winning NASCAR driver messed up a lot of tires learning to parallel park. The astronaut was once a student pilot struggling to learn how to land a small plane. The world-class athlete spent her childhood summers learning fundamentals at the "Y". And that phenomenal professional choir you heard at a recent conference was full of singers who started out in a children's chorus.
Today we listen to a children’s chorus from a recent ACDA Divisional Conference. What does this performance say about training our youngest singers? What sort of pedagogical decisions go into creating art with young singers? What are the demands placed on the conductor of a community children’s choir? And how can all of us strive to better prepare our singers, regardless of our level?
Bill Nordan says
catharine melhorn says