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11 Reasons Why Your Choir Should Go School Caroling This Year!

December 4, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz 2 Comments

Choral Clarity Blog Presents: It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Caroling can be the most wonderful day during the most wonderful time of our school year! Here are 11 Reasons Why Your Choir Should Go School Caroling This Year! 11 Reasons Why Your Choir Should Go School Caroling This Year! P.S. For the […]

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Before Testing Their Sight-Singing, Assess This….

November 25, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz Leave a Comment

Choral Clarity Blog Presents: If we truly want to help ALL singers in our choir to become great sight-singers, we must first assess their underlying skills. From there, we must provide clear and tangible baby steps to guide them toward improvement. Successful sight-singing requires several isolated fundamental skills. Let’s divide and conquer before we assess their […]

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The “Secret” Your Weakest Sight-Singers May Be Hiding

November 18, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz Leave a Comment

Choral Clarity Presents: Your weakest sight-singers may be hiding something from you. We may very well be able to uncover their “secret” once we look a little deeper. Discover what your weakest sight-singers are unable to share. This may be the first step toward helping them improve! find out: The “Secret” Your Weakest Sight-Singers May […]

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12 Effective Tips for “In Rehearsal” Memorization

November 7, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz Leave a Comment

Choral Clarity Presents: Memorizing doesn’t need to be a goal in order for it to occur during our rehearsals.These 12 tips can improve rehearsal flow, the way singers “buy-in” to our music selections, and the way our singers can memorize their music without being required to give any additional time! Here are 12 Tips for Memorizing Music Within Rehearsal   12 Effective […]

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How To “Teach” Memorizing Music Without Even Trying

November 4, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz Leave a Comment

Choral Clarity Blog Presents: How To “Teach” Memorizing Music Without Even Trying Are you tired of requiring your students to go home and memorize their music? Are you tired of threatening part tests? Have you just given up on the idea of memorization altogether? I would like to share with you an approach that doesn’t […]

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Don’t Make Them Memorize!

October 28, 2017 by Adam Paltrowitz Leave a Comment

Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Ideally, our choir should have their music memorized for concerts; it will make for a better concert than having our members hidden behind crinkly paper and being blinded by little dots with words attached to them. With their music memorized at the concert, they will be able to be more responsive […]

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The opera “Ariadne auf Naxos” (Ariadne on Naxos), by Richard Strauss, was premiered in its second version at the Vienna Opera on this day in 1916.

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