Do you know what happens in 194 days? If you answered, “That’s the approximate gestation period for a baboon,” you would be correct. It also shows that you either have entirely too much free time on your hands or that you are reading the wrong web-site. The REAL answer is that in 194 […]
Stick Time: Monteverdi
A performance of “Si ch’io vorrei morire” (Monteverdi) by the Heritage High School Concert Choir (Joel Karn, conductor) during the 2012 ACDA Northwestern Division Conference in Seattle, Washington.
Stick Time: Yes Kids CAN!
A couple years ago I was pleased to make repeated treks to a local elementary school because the director of the school’s fifth-grade chorus asked for a little help in improving the esthetic quality of the group’s performance. Back on the college campus after one such jaunt, a member of the voice faculty sniffed derisively, […]
Scholarly Abstractions: Using Dalcroze
Daley, Caron. Moved to Learn: Dalcroze Applications to Choral Pedagogy and Practice. Doctor of Musical Arts dissertation (in progress). University of Toronto. Over a century ago, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) began experimenting with a pedagogy that would give students access to their personal musical voice and a system of technique to express that voice […]
A Primary Proposal
In the new issue of the Choral Journal (September 2012), "Children’s Choir" column editor Ann Small offers this worthwhile challenge . . . I am asking every director of elementary age children – community, school, or worship choirs – to write three or four “brainstorm blog-like sentences to go in the Children’s […]