5 things to keep in mind when student teaching with a choral director. I want you to make the most of you student teaching opportunity, and I want your cooperating teacher to want to take on more student teachers in the future, so don’t screw this up!! CLICK TO LISTEN My Bullet Points […]
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Your Choir Sucks Because You Suck, with Ryan Guth (Revisited)
Time to take responsibility for your own choral experience and help grow Choir Nation by not sucking anymore. In this post, I explore the common problems I see in the choral world and propose solutions. Why such a harsh title? I posted a teaser image, containing this title, on Facebook a while back and received […]
America Cantat 8 ~ Sights & Sounds of Celebration
“Sing a Song of Joy and Gladness ~ Sing a Song of Peace and Harmony Sing Across the Islands ~ Sing Across the Sea Sing a Song of Peace and Harmony ~ Oh Sing! Sing! Sing a Song!” America Cantat 8 continues to represent the very finest musical and cultural exchange in one of […]
Faiz-The Boy From Afghanistan
My specialty is sight singing. …Teaching literacy to middle school beginners. I teach it to my students from day 1 of sixth grade. By eighth grade, they are fluent and competent at a level higher than my own when I was a freshman in college. Scheduling limitations cause it to be impossible for me to […]
Breaking into the professional choral scene, with James Bass
James Bass of UCLA and Seraphic Fire joins Ryan today to speak about balancing out your education and conducting career with opportunities as a seasonal professional choral singer. We will dive into schedule, pay, sight-reading requirements, and so much more. JOIN CHOIR NATION ON FACEBOOK LISTEN HERE
First 10 minutes of the first day of Middle School Choir!
It’s the final day of preparations before the children arrive! It sort of reminds me of Christmas Eve. It’s all finished. On the first day, I want my middle school singers to know that I will wrap the arms of structure around them immediately, and that we are going to have fun too! They […]