Recording Your Choir Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 27, 2020
The choir still wants to sing together. What’s that gonna look like?
Descants for All!
March 18, 2020
With smaller numbers come fewer parts, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no good adventure to be had.
Mix and Match
February 17, 2020
A simple way of rewriting parts that allows us directors to adjust a score for changing circumstances.
Major Scale Mashup
November 22, 2019
This one-page layout presents many of the various combinations of names and usage in a way that invites engagement and excitement as this otherwise dry information is absorbed.
Lyrical Blackface?
October 21, 2019
Is there such a thing as “lyrical blackface”? Do you ever encounter it on your podium? What happens when you do?
Practice: Rehearse, Perform, Repeat
May 9, 2019
Work with church and ad hoc community choirs has helped me understand the difference between “practice” and “rehearsal.”
Adding Original Music to Your Mix
December 19, 2018
Help you choir expand their awareness of a variety of musical options.
A B C
November 16, 2018
One of our inherent goals as kappelmeisters is to reach out to the community and gather singers to add to our core participants.
Reggae and the Map
September 5, 2018
by Fred Bogert The combined voices of a choir can really bring folks together, performers and audiences alike. And over the years the deep, shimmering tonalities of choral singing have been a mainstay of the arts for communities worldwide. Part of my recent adventures as composer and director has been to bring elements of other […]
