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Choralosophy

This page is dedicated to driving a conversation for choral musicians with the PHILOSOPHY of Choral Music at the heart of every post and podcast episode. Topics will be wide ranging from the technical... Read more

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Episode 1: Health, Happiness and Balance, with Beth Munce

Episode 1: Health, Happiness and Balance, with Beth Munce

At times, we, as working professionals, struggle to maintain our health and balance. As a result, our happiness suffers.... Read more

18 Feb 2019

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Episode 27: Reboot, Restart and Revitalize

Episode 27: Reboot, Restart and Revitalize

Seven important concepts to master to keep your choir moving forward for an ENTIRE academic year. Sometimes we fall into... Read more

3 Jan 2020

1hr 4mins

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Episode 18: Ripping off the bandaid

Episode 18: Ripping off the bandaid

Why you CAN and SHOULD stop playing notes and making tracks for kids tomorrow. The sight reading episode In ... Read more

3 Sep 2019

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Episode 13: Choral Snobbery? with Chris Maunu

Episode 13: Choral Snobbery? with Chris Maunu

In this episode I dig deeper with Chris Maunu on his “choiral” blog called “Choral Elitism” which has been a frequent co... Read more

27 Jun 2019

1hr 25mins

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Episode 2: Advocating for Our Art. Part 1-Elise Hepworth

Episode 2: Advocating for Our Art. Part 1-Elise Hepworth

How do we “sell” our profession? How do we tell the story of what we do so that non-musicians can understand? We all kno... Read more

18 Feb 2019

53mins

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Episode 6: Avoiding Burnout and Other Life Hacks. Elisa Janson Jones

Episode 6: Avoiding Burnout and Other Life Hacks. Elisa Janson Jones

Are students prepared to enter the profession… with all that goes into teaching music that can’t be taught in a Music Ed... Read more

16 Mar 2019

58mins

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Episode 22: The VOCES8 Philosophy with Paul Smith

Episode 22: The VOCES8 Philosophy with Paul Smith

For this episode, I sat down (twice… long story) with Paul Smith, co-founder and CEO of VOCES8 and the VOCES8 Foundation... Read more

30 Oct 2019

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Episode 12: Does the Performance Goal of Most Choirs Lead to Exclusion? With John Perkins

Episode 12: Does the Performance Goal of Most Choirs Lead to Exclusion? With John Perkins

Episode 12In this episode we parse our way through a Choral Journal Article from December of 2018 called “What is Writte... Read more

11 Jun 2019

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Episode 20: Choral Appropriation? Or Cultural Sharing with Brandon Boyd

Episode 20: Choral Appropriation? Or Cultural Sharing with Brandon Boyd

One of the hottest topics of discussion online in the last few weeks in the choral world has been the topic of cultural ... Read more

3 Oct 2019

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Bonus: Teaching Vowels, Blend and Resonance with 21st Century Tools

Bonus: Teaching Vowels, Blend and Resonance with 21st Century Tools

I am beyond excited to show you an amazing tool that I use to introduce my students to the concept of vowels, resonance ... Read more

14 Nov 2019

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Episode 21: Anyone can get an A in Choir…

Episode 21: Anyone can get an A in Choir…

Is choir a real class? Can the group goals be balanced with the individual academic accountability that we owe to our st... Read more

20 Oct 2019

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Episode 3: What’s in a Gesture? Bradley Ellingboe

Episode 3: What’s in a Gesture? Bradley Ellingboe

Bradley Ellingboe  In this episode, I sit down with noted conductor and composer, Bradley Ellingboe to discuss what attr... Read more

19 Feb 2019

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Episode 5: What I Suck At

Episode 5: What I Suck At

Or, What At Which I SuckIn this episode I share a small part of my “suck list” as well as my “not suck” list to demonstr... Read more

11 Mar 2019

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Episode 7: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci with Jocelyn Hagen

Episode 7: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci with Jocelyn Hagen

Episode 7: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da VinciWhat can we learn from the philosophies of Leonardo on Art and Music? Does ... Read more

8 Apr 2019

58mins

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Episode 19: Seeking Anti-Fragility in the Choral Rehearsal with Eric Barnum

Episode 19: Seeking Anti-Fragility in the Choral Rehearsal with Eric Barnum

I feel like this episode might be PHILOSOPHICALLY the most important episode I have published to date. Eric and I pick u... Read more

12 Sep 2019

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Episode 23: Words, Music and Art with Charles Anthony Silvestri

Episode 23: Words, Music and Art with Charles Anthony Silvestri

In this episode, I have the privilege of chatting with Charles Anthony Silvestri, noted lyricist, about the artistic mag... Read more

7 Nov 2019

1hr 7mins

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Episode 4. Part 1. Seeing the Trees (There is no forest) with Stephen Rew

Episode 4. Part 1. Seeing the Trees (There is no forest) with Stephen Rew

In this episode I make the shocking claim that there is no such thing as a choir. Then I bring on Stephen Rew for a disc... Read more

19 Feb 2019

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Episode 17: Beyond Elijah Rock with Dr. Marques Garrett

Episode 17: Beyond Elijah Rock with Dr. Marques Garrett

In this episode Marques and I discuss importance of the music of black composers that do NOT fit into categories of idio... Read more

18 Aug 2019

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Episode 4: Part 2. Seeing the Trees (There is no forest) with Tony Maglione

Episode 4: Part 2. Seeing the Trees (There is no forest) with Tony Maglione

In the second part of this episode, I look to Anthony Maglione for insight into this topic from the collegiate perspecti... Read more

19 Feb 2019

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Episode 2: Advocating for Our Art. Part 2-Dale Trumbore

Episode 2: Advocating for Our Art. Part 2-Dale Trumbore

In the second part of this episode, I chat with composer Dale Trumbore about how we, as performers and composers, can te... Read more

18 Feb 2019

43mins

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