Choir Fam Podcast
The Choir Fam Podcast is a venue for conversations about the current state of choral music. Hosts Dean Luethi and Matthew Myers seek to bring the worldwide choral community closer together through their discussions with a variety of guests who work with choir in its various forms. The goal of the podcast is to provide listeners with interesting tidbits of knowledge they could use in day-to-day choral rehearsals and to bring light to the ways that issues in the choral field are being observed and addressed.
Podcasting since 2022 • 148 episodes
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 136 - Sharing Musical Value in Community Partnerships - Alex Gartner
“You’re not going to ask a bunch of choir directors to donate to your organization — you’re going to have to go find other people who probably don’t have the type of experience with choir that choral leaders do. It’s about trying to translate n...
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Season 6
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47:14
Ep. 135 - Leading All Students to a Positive Choral Experience - Philip Brown
“It's hard to focus on anything educationally if certain basic needs aren't being met, so you're trying to navigate and be proactive as much as possible. I have students who have their own needs and things they're going through that are influen...
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Season 6
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50:32
Ep. 134 - Unlocking Creativity by Arranging Popular Music - Garrett Breeze
“I was one of those people that had some biases against pop music. Being in show choirs and seeing the ways that the songs were transformed and arranged really opened my eyes to different styles of music and changed my perspective. I no longer ...
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Season 6
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51:55
Ep. 133 - Exploring and Celebrating Latin American Choral Music - Ryan Fellman
“The Spanish language is not treated with the attention and nuance that we often do for many of the languages used for singing auditions. There’s this myth that Americans can't make certain sounds, but in other rehearsals, we work really hard a...
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Season 6
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44:36
Ep. 132 - Expanding Singers' Tone Color Palette - Francis Cathlina
“I ask them to sing with maximum efficiency, accessing their singer’s formant, and from there, we’ll ask for specific sounds. Sometimes conductors get stuck asking them to blend, to listen. When we do that, it’s like giving them an 8-pack of Cr...
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Season 6
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45:30
