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What IS Choral Music?

September 15, 2023 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

In this episode I draw on a few sources, including audience comments to present an advocacy conversation. To make the case for Choral Music classrooms, infrastructure support, and educational priorities. You will see or hear a video I made all the way back in 2012 in response to the popular TV show “Glee,” as well […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, choir, Choral Music, vocal music

A&C Monthly Blog: Our Most Critical Collab..the text

May 17, 2023 by Emily Williams Burch Leave a Comment

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 By Dr. Robert Bode April was poetry month, so the Advocacy and Collaboration Committee posted weekly ideas, stories, and even favorite poems on their social media platforms to celebrate. Week one featured a poem by poet, author, and choral conductor, Dr. Robert Bode. This sparked a conversation – what better person […]

Filed Under: Advocacy & Collaboration Tagged With: choir, Collaboration, Poetry, text

Remaking History with Dr. Marques L.A. Garrett

February 10, 2023 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

This week, welcome BACK to the show Dr. Marques Garrett, who last appeared in episode 17, “Beyond Elijah Rock,” where many of us were introduced to the concept of “non-idiomatic” music of Black composers. In this episode, part of the “Oxford Series,” Marques returns to celebrate his latest contribution to the growing canon of music by Black composers […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: black history, Black History Month, choir, Diversity, inclusion, music educators, Oxford Press

Channeling Emotional Contagion with Dr. Gary Seighman

December 9, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

There is an often felt, but rarely quantified sense within ensemble music experiences that something truly MAGICAL is happening that changes us profoundly. However, recentscientific discoveries (link to sources below) are adding a more concrete validity to that which experienced musicians already intuitively know. Studies that reveal the physiological and psychological processes of cooperative effort, […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, choir, Choral Journal, Choral Music, CONTAGION, Education, Pandemic, SCIENCE

AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WITH VAUGHAN FLEISCHFRESSER

November 25, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognizable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the real child. Vaughan Fleischfresser You probably recognize this colleague just by looking at him […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, advocacy, choir, music education, social media

The Belonging Buffet

November 4, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Obvious: All humans need to feel connected and have a sense of belonging. Less obvious: Teacher’s have less power to actually achieve this with all students than we think. We can WELCOME all students. But belonging has to be mutual and organic. Hot take: not ALL students need this from their school or ALL of their […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: belonging, choir, choir teacher, inclusion

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“A Life for the Tsar,” a patriotic opera by Mikhail Glinka, was performed for the opening of the rebuilt Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg on this day in 1836.

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