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The Value of an Outsider with Robyn Hilger

December 16, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

The American Choral Directors Association is the largest organization of choral musicians in the world. ACDA sets the tone and direction of choral music in the US and has a major impact on the global choral music community as well. The newly appointed Executive Director of the organization, Robyn Hilger seeks to usher in a […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: American Choral Directors Association, Choral Journal

Channeling Emotional Contagion with Dr. Gary Seighman

December 9, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

There is an often felt, but rarely quantified sense within ensemble music experiences that something truly MAGICAL is happening that changes us profoundly. However, recentscientific discoveries (link to sources below) are adding a more concrete validity to that which experienced musicians already intuitively know. Studies that reveal the physiological and psychological processes of cooperative effort, […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, choir, Choral Journal, Choral Music, CONTAGION, Education, Pandemic, SCIENCE

The Strange Relationship between Choral Music Ed and Vocal Ped with Dr. Sharon Hansen

December 2, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

One of the oddest things about Vocal Music Education as a profession, is how little we are required to learn in our schooling about the voice. Vocal Pedagogy courses are often the purview of voice performance majors, which is very odd considering how many more students will be impacted with vocal instruction by a person […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, music education, vocal music, vocal pedagogy, voice science

AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WITH VAUGHAN FLEISCHFRESSER

November 25, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognizable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the real child. Vaughan Fleischfresser You probably recognize this colleague just by looking at him […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, advocacy, choir, music education, social media

Choral Music Advocacy is Changing! with Myles Finn and Tom Metzger

November 18, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

As we put the pandemic further and further in our rearview, many of us are confronted with new realities related to how, when and WHY we need to advocate for our programs, our profession and our art form. For example, I have found myself needing to have more conversations with school board members, administrators, parents and even colleagues about the value of a robust and rigorous music education. In this posting, I am going to direct you to TWO recent Choralosophy conversations which approach the topic of Advocacy.

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, advocacy, American Choral Directors Association, music, Music Ed, music educators

The Belonging Buffet

November 4, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Obvious: All humans need to feel connected and have a sense of belonging. Less obvious: Teacher’s have less power to actually achieve this with all students than we think. We can WELCOME all students. But belonging has to be mutual and organic. Hot take: not ALL students need this from their school or ALL of their […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: belonging, choir, choir teacher, inclusion

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