This continues my notes from several sessions on conducting by Eric Ericson done for the Haystack Workshop in Oregon. Ericson – Day 2 1) “caress” the air as if through water, then make attacks (not in a pattern) gradually more marked , then back to caressing motion – check to see that your shoulder […]
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Conference Morsel: Diction
(An excerpt from the interest session “ Teaching Your Singers to Fish: How Diction Frees Us to Sing around the World,” presented by Stephen Sieck during the 2014 ACDA North Central Division Conference) When we try to teach our singers how to pronounce songs in a foreign language, we often make several assumptions: We […]
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The Language of the Discipline: Filling their Ears
Many of us in the field have a huge responsibility to the musicians in our ensembles: we are the channels of everything wonderful about our choral tradition, through which our singers learn about the history and future of composition, performance traditions and culture of music. If you went through a college music program, or an […]
Learning from Eric Ericson IV – Conducting Technique I
NOTES FROM ERIC ERICSON'S CONDUCTING SESSIONS AT HAYSTACK , 1986 These notes are from several sessions (hence I've abbreviated in some places) that Eric Ericson did on basic conducting technique. This took place at the Haystack Workshop in Astoria, Oregon. I was singing in the 16-voice chamber choir that did a concert as well […]
Speaking of Voice: “Excerpts from Margaret Hillis’ ‘At Rehearsals’,” by Mary Lynn Doherty
EXCERPTS FROM MARGARET HILLIS' At Rehearsals (First published 1969) by Mary Lynn Doherty At Rehearsals is an 18 page document written by Margaret Hillis (founder and conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus for almost 40 years). Her advice on singing, score marking and diction is comprehensive, concise and highly effective. If it was good […]