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It’s time for YOU to share your programming through the “Five from the Folder” column on ChoralBuzz.   Each week we feature a brief list of FIVE selections that conductors find particularly useful to their choirs.  Combining the clarity of someone presently rehearsing a work with the concise length of a text, the column has […]

FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: HOLIDAY SATB by Lisa Larsen   [EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s never too early to program.  With the spring semester in full swing, your next semester includes the Christmas season.  Here’s something to start that thinking.]   Alfred Burt Carols, Alfred Burt,  Shawnee Press, #35000402 Wonderful a cappella carols. Best known: Caroling, Caroling […]

So, um, like, ya know, this is like totally sick.  An experienced educator and firey proponent of the teaching profession, Taylor Mali seldom misses when he shoots.  Here he defends the value of clear verbal communication.  

WHEN THE YOUNG TEACHER BECOMES THE MENTOR, by Emily Hackethorn   I’m in my fourth year teaching 6-12 choir in the Bitterroot Valley, in Montana.  In the past year, I started blogging to channel my thoughts on teaching, motherhood, productivity, and life in general.  This Spring, I’ll be having my second baby, but not before […]

VOCAL ADVANTAGE: VOWEL MODIFICATION, by Dina Else (no. 30 in a series)   I suppose if we are going to spend so much time delving into of all the different aspects of what makes a beautiful tone we should spend a column discussing vowel integrity and vowel modification.  This is another one of those tricky […]

VOCAL ADVANTAGE: PLACEMENT, by Dina Else (no. 29 in a series)   Singing is sensation.  A lot of people feel very strongly about the fact that talking about placement is bad because it isn’t scientifically or anatomically correct.  My students have a strong anatomy base.  When I talk about placement, and the sensations involved, they […]