Choral Clarity Presents: Our ultimate goal should be teaching our students to embody the music they sing. The deeper their understand, the more they become the art. These 12 rehearsal techniques provide the framework for teaching students how to embody and memorize music while using sheet music: Click here to find out 12 Ways to Memorize DURING Rehearsal This is […]
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Memorizing Music Without Really Trying
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Memorizing Music Without Really Trying How we teach and run daily rehearsals greatly impacts our students’ ability to be responsive to our conducting, sing freely, and be communicative. Our approach can foster the ability for our students to naturally memorize their music; we do not need to require them to memorize or […]
The Benefits of Singing: Resources for Conductors
ChorTeach is ACDA’s quarterly publication for choral conductors and teachers at all levels. It is published online, and each issue contains four practical articles. If you are not already a member of ACDA, you can join as an Associate for $45 per year and receive access to ChorTeach and the Choral Journal online. The most […]
Keep “Religion” Out Of Public School Choir
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Keep “Religion” Out Of High School Choir! Public high school choirs and choir directors should not be preaching religion; how can we be effective choir directors who expose our students to the high-quality, historically significant music as well as the greatest works of living composers? Click here to read! […]
Avoid Ripoffs – Plan It Yourself!
Choir Clarity Blog presents: Avoid Ripoffs – Plan It Yourself! There are so many ways we can enrich our students’ choral experience by providing unique external performing opportunities and working with guest clinicians. While many advertised experiences cost huge sums of money, this article provides alternate way for enrichment that still involve travel, performing, and outstanding […]
Creating Choirs that Welcome Transgender Singers
The November 2016 issue of Choral Journal included an article written by Jane Ramseyer Miller titled “Creating Choirs that Welcome Transgender Singers.” This was adapted and revised from the California ACDA newsletter. There has been much conversation about the topic of gender as it relates to choral music classrooms, and some of this was discussed […]