Choir Fam Podcast
Choir Fam Podcast
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Ep. 164 - Creating Accessible and Engaging Compositions - Ryan Main
"The most important advice I ever received is that you cannot call a piece 'done' until you have sung through every part, beginning to end, and 90% of the time changed at least one thing because of that sing-through. I think I'm a good music re...
Ep. 163 - Engaging the Body in Singing and Conducting - Zanaida Robles
"What I do with the high school choirs is important. I always tell them, 'I'm really just trying to convince you to do what you already know you can do, to give yourself to it, to create this big whole beautiful experience for yourselves. Then ...
Ep. 162 - Poetic Lyricism in Choral Music - Charles Anthony Silvestri
“I tell composers to collaborate with a poet who takes their craft as seriously as they take their craft. It’s a very rare creative who can do both well. What most often happens is a really good composer isn’t a very good poet, or a very good p...
Ep. 161 - Secondary Trauma Stress in the Choral Profession - Lynn Ryan
"Secondary trauma is when you experience trauma second-hand. The trauma might not have happened to you specifically, but somebody shares with you their firsthand trauma and it impacts you emotionally, maybe physically. We don’t realize that we ...
Ep. 160 - Enlivening Conducting with Imagery & Kinesthetics - Gary Seighman
"For years, I felt that there was no connection with my hands and the sound. My perception of conducting at the time was that everything needs to be free and relaxed, no tension - and no tension when you sing. There has to be tension when you s...
