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Non-auditioned Choirs – and Their Conductors – Are at the Heart of Community Singing

July 29, 2020 by From Our Readers 6 Comments

By Pat Guth For the first 40 years of my musical career, I spent a lot of time dealing with “imposter syndrome” – that nagging feeling when you doubt your accomplishments and have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” Maybe you’ve been there, too. It’s not uncommon among artists of all […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: community choir, community singing

Developing Voices: Don’t Be a Hummer, Be an Audiator

May 22, 2018 by Sundra Flansburg Leave a Comment

By Lynn Swanson This post launches a new Tuesday ChoralNet blog entitled Developing Voices, a team effort by Lynn Swanson, Jamea Sale, Jennifer Berroth, and Melissa Shallberg. The blog is meant to offer insight gained from research and experience on how voices should develop in a healthy manner for the whole of our lives. You […]

Filed Under: Developing Voices Tagged With: choral rehearsal, community singing, Singing

Helping Small Amateur Choirs to Survive and Flourish

May 5, 2017 by ACDA Leave a Comment

A version of this post first appeared on the OUPblog on April 21, 2017, and is reprinted with permission of Oxford University Press. Choral singing has been, for some 150 years, one of the mainstays of local music-making and entertainment in the rural regions of Britain. As Director of Music at the University of Plymouth and […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: community singing, Great Britain, international

Singing Together to Honor MLK

December 11, 2016 by ACDA 1 Comment

America Sings Together on Martin Luther King Day At 11:00 AM in your local time on Martin Luther King Day (Monday, January 16, 2017), we invite you, your families, your church groups, and your school choirs to stop and sing “Amazing Grace” with the people around you.  The 4 verses of John Newton’s longer poem […]

Filed Under: International Initiatives, Others Tagged With: choir, community singing, Singing

Singing for a New World

November 13, 2016 by From Our Readers 1 Comment

At the most recent NATS conference there was a featured concert led by Met Opera star Renée Fleming. She often ends concerts with a sing-a-long number, and at this concert she led the audience of singing teachers in “I Could Have Danced All Night.” Then she spoke to the crowd about the most recent shooting […]

Filed Under: From Our Readers Tagged With: choir, community, community singing, Singing

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