Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12:30 – 1:15

R&S Area: Show Choir

Presider: James Kimmel

Presenters: Becky Rockhill, Calvin Ellis, and James Kimmel

Title: Question and Answer of Participants Favorite Discussion Topics

 

 

R&S Area: Ethnic & Multicultural Perspectives

Presider: Gary Packwood

Presenter: William Powell, Director of Choral Activities, Auburn University

Title: Gospel Starter Kit – This session will explore some easy-to- teach-and-learn titles for a gospel choir in any setting. Attendees can expect to see and hear musical examples of those titles.

 

R&S Area: Women’s Choirs

Presider: Lori Hetzel

Presenters: Everett McCorvey, Noemi Lugo, and Beth Arnold

Title: I Am women, Hear Me Roar (Healthily) – Session will feature a panel of collegiate voice teachers/pedagogues to discuss the healthy woman’s voice in a choral setting.

R&S Area: Children’s Choir

Presider: Selina Midkiff

Presenters: Attending Audience Participants

Title: Offering Opportunities for All Children in the US to Sing In A Choir: What are YOU doing? What could WE do? – This session will include brainstorming ideas that can contribute to “offering opportunities for every child to sing in a choir in the US,” followed by roundtable discussions on such pertinent topics as: funding your program, extended trips and how to fund them, plus others.

 

R&S Area: Jazz Choir

Presider: Stephen Futrell

Presenter: Tim Brent, Director of Vocal Jazz Studies, University of North Texas

Title: Rhythm Sections and Vocal Jazz - This session will focus around rhythm section issues with vocal jazz and sound reinforcement issues.

 

 

R&S Area: Community Choirs

Presider: Gary Anderson

Presenter: Gary Anderson, Conductor & Director, Lexington Chamber Chorale

Title: Moving from ppp to FFF – Patron to Fans; Planning to Programming; Publicity to Presence; Don’t Keep Your Ensemble at pianissmo – Move it to Forte!

 

Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:00 – 12:45

R&S Area: Male Choirs

Presider: Jason D. Thompson

Presenter: Jefferson Johnson, Director of Choral Activities, University of Kentucky

Title: Doo Wop or Not Doo Wop, That is the Question: The Case for including male a cappella Groups in the Choral Program – The roundtable will foster discussion on the role of male a cappella group in choral programs.

 

R&S Area: Youth and Student Activities

Presider: Carol Krueger

Presenters: Rodney Eichenberger, Professor Emeritus, Florida State University and Milburn Price, Retired Dean and Director of Choral Activities, Samford University

Title: Essential Elements of Effective Conducting - Join Rodney Eichenberger and Milburn Price as they recap the essential elements of effective conducting gleaned from the undergraduate conducting masterclass.

R&S Area: Junior High and Middle School Choirs

Presider: Rhonda Miller Presenter: Patrick K. Freer, Georgia State University, Choral Music Education Title: The Research and The Reality: Why Boys Drop Out of Chorus and What Can We Do About It – Highlights from new research will ground this interactive discussion of what teachers can do to: 1) keep boys enrolled in choral singing during adolescence, 2) facilitate the return to choral singing by boys who withdraw, and 3) develop active and successful recruitment/retention strategies for different types of schools and choral situations.

R&S Area: Music in Worship

Presider: Bryan Black Presenters: Edward Schaefer, Professor of Music, University of Florida and assisted by The Florida Schola Cantorum Title: Gregorian Chant: A Foundation for Melodic Shaping – There may be no music in which text and melody are more intimately intertwined than chant. This session will explore some of the magic of this profound but delicate relationship, looking at how textual accents, modal structure, semiologic markings, and the intended function of various chants all come together in a mutually supportive way. The session will also show how the understanding and singing of chant can benefit the singing of other repertoire.

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12:30 – 1:15

R&S Area: College and University Choirs

Presider: Paul Hondorp

Presenters: Erin Cowitz, Director of Choral Activities, University of Alabama (Huntsville) and Carol Krueger, Director of Choral Activities, Florida Southern University

Title: Team Teaching Conducting: Can It Be Done?

 

R&S Area: Boychoirs

Presider: Vincent Oakes

Presenter: Ryan Fisher, Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education, University of Central Arkansas

Title: Addressing New Research on the Age-of-Onset Male Voice Change – This roundtable discussion will focus on current research findings on the male voice change and how earlier trends in the age-of-onset of the voice change may impact boys’ choirs. Participants of this session will also discuss effective strategies for successfully guiding emerging adolescent males through the vocal mutation process.

 

R&S Area: Two-Year College Choirs

Presider: Dianna Campbell

Presenters: Brenda Smith, Associate Professor, University of Florida and Ronald Burrichter, Professor of Music, University of Florida

Title: Age Appropriate Vibrato an the Aging Voice - In this session, we will define the problem described by the current scientific evidence and investigate the strategies for teaching singers of all ages a proper approach to choral vibrato. Using a small group of singers from Rhodes College, Memphis ,TN, and an equivalent number of area singers age 55-70, all with choral experience, we will demonstrate useful techniques of warm-up and cool-down, choral tone development, blend and dynamics that will foster healthy and appealing vibrato in voices of various age groups.

 

R&S Area: High School

Presider: Thomas Yackey

Presenter: LuAnn W. Holder, Lee University, TN

Title: Embedding Student Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal