Conducting a children’s choral group can be both energizing and exhausting at the same time. On one hand, your students LOVE to sing! On the other hand, it can be hard to get them to focus when it’s rehearsal time. Leading a children’s choir successfully requires you to get creative in the way you keep […]
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Empowering Student Leadership Through Music
By Jonathan Babcock, DMA, Texas State University Throughout my years as a student, I was always drawn to opportunities to lead and contribute to my musical community. As a high schooler, I was thrilled to be elected the president of the school marching band. The process of being elected by my peers, provided this lanky, […]
William Grant Still in Choral Journal
The cover article of the current March 2018 issue of Choral Journal highlights William Grant Still’s eighteen-minute choral-orchestral work …And They Lynched Him on a Tree. The cover artwork depicts the story of this piece with a powerful contrast of dark and light, a parallel to Still’s scoring for White and Black Chorus, Mother, Narrator, […]
How Collecting Fundraising Data Will Help Your Next Choir Fundraiser
By Amy Zucchi, Edco Do you know of a choir, group, or organization that never seems to have a problem fundraising? It seems like they send out a letter or email and it’s as if they turned on a money faucet complete with volunteers ready to help. Well, they aren’t magicians. You can have that […]
3 Steps to Create Compelling Video Content for Your Choral Organization
By Barry Peterson, United Filmworks With the advent of smart phone video cameras and the option for most anyone to post videos publicly, this post is a chance to learn some basics about video content from a professional. Have you created choral videos yourself? What tips can you share? This past year my company worked […]
Reviving the Music of Ernst Bacon (1898-1990)
*The following article was written by Ernst’s wife, Ellen Bacon. In the mid-20th century, American composer Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) was well known. His Symphony in D Minor was awarded a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932. In the ’30s, he was appointed head of the WPA Federal Music Project in San Francisco and founded the Carmel Bach […]