How do we actively engage students in lifelong music learning and participation? 1985, The early years For my first three years of teaching, I taught kindergarten through fifth grade general music for two elementary schools in Texas (one had no air conditioning!). I traveled from room to room teaching the Texas Essential Elements with my […]
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Leading Voices: In the Beginning . . .
1985, K-5 General Music As a first-year teacher in 1985, my emotions ran high as I meet with the principal of an elementary school in San Antonio, Texas. She welcomed me to the school and began to inform me of my teaching responsibilities: kindergarten through fifth-grade general music. There was not a music room available, […]
Auditions – all voices (St. Louis, MO)
Auditions in mid-August are now being scheduled for the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, one of the nation’s leading a cappella choirs. There are a very few spaces open, particularly for sopranos, and applicants are asked to consult the relevant page on the website and complete the online application. The Chamber Chorus presents six programs annually, […]
ACDA Voices United Call for Interest Session Proposals
The ACDA Voices United planning committee is looking for engaging choral professionals to present at their 2022 conference being held August 5 and 6 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, VA. We are looking for a diversity of topics from technical tips for leading a better rehearsal to information about neglected or under-represented […]
A Celebration of Voices 1
VocalEssence Music Press offers a rich diversity of composers from various backgrounds and ethnicities which yields an enormous depth to the variety of musical styles in this series. “La Ofrenda” (“The Offering”), by Sabina Covarrubias, is one of the most exciting and delightful pieces in the Graphite Marketplace, because it enables children to sing with […]
A Celebration of Voices 2: More Music from VocalEssence Music Press
Sometimes a choral work creates its own musical world, such as in “En Paz” (“At Peace”) by Jesús Lopéz Moreno, for SATB divisi, piano, and speaker. The piano writing is exquisite and virtuosic. Although there are echoes of Brahms, Lizst, and Duparc, the end result is uniquely Moreno. The piano is paired with the choir […]