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 • 155 episodes
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 143 - Motivating Singers of All Backgrounds by Pursuing Excellence - Caius Lee
"Every single workshop I give is all about excellence, singing well, singing properly, and achieving the very best we can achieve. Why do we it? We don't do it because we'll be paid millions and millions of pounds. It's not cash-motivated. We d...
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Season 6
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Ep. 142 - Imagination and Self-Exploration in Music Making - James Jordan
“Burnout is when you reach a point where there is no mystery in the music making anymore and you’re just redoing what you’ve always done. You’re reheating it. Self-exploration should be the goal of every musician. The idea of staying connected ...
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Season 6
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47:26
Ep. 141 - Developing Efficiency in Choral Rehearsals - Richard Zielinski
"Singing in a choir, you're trying to about five things at the same time, and sometimes you're not even doing it in the language you have spoken your entire life. Sometimes I had to just start with rhythm on one pitch and then build that step b...
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Season 6
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1:02:22
Ep. 140 - Providing Mountaintop Experiences Through Choral Festivals - Jenny Bent
“If you have opportunities to have them take over the work, you can engage them in a way with chaos circles. I love doing chaos circles when they’re teaching themselves the music. Sometimes you see students who are usually very shy really step ...
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Season 6
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49:35
Ep. 139 - Musical Magic in Middle School - Gretchen Harrison
“Middle school kids really are very concrete learners. Abstract thought isn’t there yet. Give them the ability to see ‘I’m not the only one having problems on page 10. I must be normal because everybody’s having problems on page 10.’ Or, if it ...
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Season 6
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