Choir Fam Podcast
Choir Fam Podcast
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Ep. 171 - From Instrumental Training to the Choral Classroom - Derrick Fox
“That’s where I struggled as a new teacher. I don’t remember what it was like to learn how to sing in the seventh grade. Because my beginning as a singer was different, I needed to slow down. I was so locked up on the label of trying to be succ...
Ep. 170 - Building Cohesion and Collegiality Across the Choral Program - Matt Taylor
“I had the best working relationship with my co-teachers. We tried to have a cohesive sense of community among all our choirs. One of the ways that we could encourage collegiality amongst our students was to have fun visibly together. If it was...
Ep. 169 - Utilizing Singing to Promote Community Healing - Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
"One way for me to work through things like gun violence and civil rights issues, things I really struggle with, is to set it to music and build a community around it. I found that this really speaks to singers, which is healing and affirming f...
Ep. 168 - Scaffolding Learning for All Levels of Experience - Brandon Boyd
"Working with the MTC Women’s Prison Glee Club was life-changing, taking women who had never been in a choir, teaching them about head voice, consonants, vowels, and diction and all the musical things that we talk about all the time in choir. W...
Ep. 167 - Rehearsal Transitions as Opportunities for Singer Engagement - Morgan Luttig
“Transitions are key to all of the rehearsals that I run. We lose a lot of very valuable rehearsal time when we switch from one task to the next, whether they’re taking their music out or they start talking to a neighbor. Every time we switch t...
