Winter 2018 Choral Edition WV ACDA Newsleer President’s message Happy Holidays! I hope that you have all survived the busy holiday season and managed to take a lile me for some well-deserved R & R. At this me of the year, it is a good me to reflect on why we do what we do and remind ourselves of the important role we play in our students’ educaon and our choristers lives. It is easy to get caught up in the busy day-to-day acvies throughout the year and lose sight of the bigger picture. A great way to recharge the baeries is to aend our upcoming state conference. Not only is this an opportunity to learn, but it is a wonderful me of networking with colleagues, hearing new and interesng repertoire, and remembering what brought us to this profession: the love of choral music. Whether you work in educaon, in church music, or in the community, I encourage you all to join us in Charleston at the end of January. Dr. Kym Sco Director of Choral Acvies West Virginia University Winter Issue Hotel/Venue info ....... 2 Guest Directors ......... 3 Choir Repertoire ........ 6 Interest Sessions ....... 7 Conf. Schedule........... 9 Concert & Fesval…..10 WV ACDA Board……..11 Conference Registration Conference pre-registration is online at www.acdawv.org Pre-registration is discounted and open until January 10th, 2018.
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Winter 2018
Choral Edition WV ACDA Newsletter
President’s message
Happy Holidays! I hope that you have all survived the busy holiday season and managed to take a little time for some well-deserved R & R. At this time of the year, it is a good time to reflect on why we do what we do and remind ourselves of the important role we play in our students’ education and our
choristers lives. It is easy to get caught up in the busy day-to-day activities throughout the year and lose sight of the bigger picture. A great way to recharge the batteries is to attend our upcoming state conference. Not only is this an opportunity to learn, but it is a wonderful time of
networking with colleagues, hearing new and interesting repertoire, and remembering what brought us to this profession: the love of choral music. Whether you work in education, in church music, or in the community, I encourage you all to join us in Charleston at the end of January.
Dr. Kym Scott Director of Choral Activities West Virginia University
Winter Issue
Hotel/Venue info ....... 2
Guest Directors ......... 3
Choir Repertoire ........ 6
Interest Sessions ....... 7
Conf. Schedule ........... 9
Concert & Festival…..10
WV ACDA Board……..11
Conference Registration
Conference pre-registration is online at www.acdawv.org
Pre-registration is discounted and open until January 10th,
2018.
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Conference Information
Rehearsal Venues
Jr. High Honor Choir
Charleston Civic Center, 200 Civic Center Dr, Charleston, WV 25301
High School All-State Chamber Choir
Charleston Civic Center, 200 Civic Center Dr, Charleston, WV 25301
200 Lee St E, Charleston, WV 25301, 1-800-228-9290
$119/night for 2 double beds, Complimentary breakfast/Internet
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Honor Choir Conductors
Jr. High/Middle School Honor Choir
Dr. CRAIG DENISON is Associate Director of Music Education and Choral Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Before that, he served as Artistic Director of Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir, and director of the Master Chorale at Florida International University. He taught for many years at Saint Mark’s Episcopal School as Director of Vocal Music. Dr. Denison has also served as Music Director for the Colorado Children’s Chorale and Associate Music Director and Conductor of The American Boychoir. His chapter on boychoir pedagogy is newly published in The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy. Dr. Denison has prepared choirs and acted as vocal coach for numerous international orchestras, opera companies, and a number of world and North American premieres. He currently serves as the American Choral Director’s National Chair for Repertoire and Standards in Boychoirs. Dr. Denison founded the Schola Cantorum at Westminster Choir College of Rider University as Assistant Professor of Conducting. A sought-after conductor and clinician, Dr. Denison is a regular guest conductor of Honor and All-State Choruses. He also presents and conducts regularly at the state and national level for ACDA, NAfME, and their affiliates. Dr. Denison has prepared boys for numerous opera productions including The Magic Flute, The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, La Boheme, Turandot, Tosca, Summer and Smoke, Hansel and Gretel, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Street Scene, and Gloriana with opera companies as diverse as Central City Opera to Los Angeles Opera to Florida Grand Opera. He has pre-pared choirs and soloists for the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony, New World Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, and the BBC Proms. His television and movie work includes Dexter and Interview with the Vampire. Dr. Denison earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Miami. He holds a Master of Music degree with Distinction from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Music degree from Houghton College, Magna Cum Laude. In addition to youth singing, Dr. Denison’s research agenda include male singing, statistical modeling of vocal outcomes, the intersection of choral pedagogy and technology, and assessment.
Accompanist: David Patrick, DuPont Middle School
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Honor Choir Conductors Con.
All-State Chamber Choir
Dr. Marshall Haning is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Florida, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, quantitative research, and the history and philosophy of music education. Prior to arriving at UF, Dr. Haning taught collegiate courses at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Cincinnati, and Miami University of Ohio. He also taught high school vocal music and Advanced Placement music theory courses in the public schools of North Carolina. Dr. Haning holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, a M.M. from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and a B.M.E. from Kent State University. Dr. Haning’s research interests include music education curriculum, music teacher preparation, technology, and the social, academic, and cognitive benefits of music instruction. He has had articles published in journals including the Journal of Music Teacher Education and Contributions to Music Education, and is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international music education conferences. Dr. Haning has also served as a choral clinician and adjudicator in Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Australia.
Accompanist: Mrs. Jan Corrothers, Austin Peay State University
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Honor Choir Conductors Con.
Collegiate Honor Choir
Dr. Brett Scott is Associate Professor of Ensembles and Conducting at the UC's College-Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the CCM Chorale, teaches conducting and literature at the graduate and undergraduate level, and is Music Director of Opera d’arte. Under his direction, the CCM Chorale released its first commercial recording, Lux Dei, through Ablaze Records, and has begun production of its second recording, focusing on sacred music for choir and electronics. Chorale has given multiple regional and world premieres by both American and international composers, including the 2015 revival performance of Dave Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice, and in 2016 the
regional premiere of Abyssinian Mass by Wynton Marsalis, and the North American premiere of Stabat Mater by Ivan Moody. Under his
direction Opera d’arte has won numerous awards through the National Opera Association. His conducting students have three times reached the finals of the ACDA graduate student conducting competition and have been selected to participate in Chorus America masterclasses. Prior to his appointment at the University of Cincinnati, Scott was Director of Choral Activities at the University of Rochester and Assistant Professor of Music at the Eastman School of Music. Comfortable in front of a wide range of ensembles, Scott currently directs the Cincinnati Camerata, Cincinnati’s Musica Sacra, and Coro Volante, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance and recording of music by living composers. He has recently led the Camerata in the regional premiere of Arvo Pärt’s Passio, and in collaboration with concert:nova and Nanoworks Opera, the regional premiere of Jonathan Dove’s community opera Tobias and the Angel. Scott has conducted and taught throughout the United States, Canada, Central America and Europe. An acknowledged expert on contemporary music, Scott is in demand internationally as a lecturer on Canadian music and has presented at several national and international conferences. He was editor of Chorus America’s Research Memorandum Series, an Associate Editor of NCCO’s The Choral Scholar, and has been contracted to write the authorized biography of Canadian composer and activist Raymond Murray Schafer. In January 2018 Scott will begin a two-year term as President of the National Collegiate Choral Association. Accompanist: John Morrison, Fairmont State University
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Honor Choir Repertoire
Jr. High/Middle School Honor Choir
“Yanaway Heyona” — arr. Brian Tate
“He Never Failed Me Yet” - Robert Ray
“Wide, Open Spaces” - Sarah Quartel
“Sing Praise to God” - Joseph Haydn, arr. Robert Field
“My Funny Valentine” - Rodgers & Hart, arr. Jay Althouse
Description: This session will focus on conducting technique as it relates to rehearsal technique. Attendees will be asked to participate in group conducting examples and 3-4 volunteers will be asked to conduct in a master-class type setting. Although not necessary, it would be wonderful to have a choir for the volunteers to con-duct, either a group of conference attendee volunteers or a local choir that wouldn’t mind taking the time to participate in this session. The repertoire will be chosen based on the abilities of the choir and/or conductors.
Effective Music Literacy:
I Love Sight-Reading!
Clinician: Dr. David L. Means
Director of Choral Studies
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Description:
This session will focus on simple and fun sight-reading techniques that will help middle school, high school and college choral students become more independent, confident and successful with sight-reading. Attendees will participate in fun and innovative games while learning tools and techniques which can get their students more motivated for success in musical literacy and sight-reading.
Why Can’t I Sing:
The Impact of Self-Efficacy, Enhancing Techniques on Student
Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Clinician: Dr. Ilse Long
WV Treble Makers & Bible Center School
Description:
This session will focus on three aspects:
1. What is self-efficacy and why is it important 2. The findings from Ms. Long’s personal research 3. Resources for teachers wanting to incorporate self-efficacy techniques into their regular classroom instruction The third aspect will relate directly with our membership, as we will discuss self-efficacy data collection surveys, which can easily be used in the classroom or rehearsal setting. We will also discuss elf-efficacy enhancing techniques that teachers can incorporate into their current instructional methods.
The Case for Traditionally Instrumental Techniques
in the Choral Medium
Clinician: Nick Blain
Description:
Voice and instrument, since time immemorial, are melded together at their primordial fundamentals. Virtuosic instrumentalists seamlessly craft phrases as if they were being sung. Likewise, the articulated diction of a trained vocalist evokes a timbral relationship to the string and pipe. In fact, coherent tonal/atonal melody itself is based upon the syntax of sentence structure and syllabic stress in words. Instrumental diction (articulation) is an important ingredient for the player in interpreting his/her expression to the highest degree. Analogously, vocal articulation (diction) should be highly regarded and utilized within the technical equipment of the singer. Various musical examples include pop, traditional, and classical excerpts, as well as live instrumental demonstrations.
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Interest Sessions (cont.)
Chorale in the Coalfields:
Teaching the Arts in West Virginia Schools
Clinician: Ellen Woods Ramey
George Washington High School
This session will focus on the challenges associated with teaching
in rural schools. It will discuss topics such as poverty, illiteracy,
special needs, the emergence of the drug baby population, and
transgender kids in our classrooms.
Conference Map
Travel Tips from 24 Years of
Domestic and International Travel
Clinician: Ed Harkless
Cabell Midland High School
While not claiming to be an “expert”, Mr. Harkless has led his Collegium musicum ensemble on four trips to Ireland, several to Canada and numerous other destinations across the country. He has also been part of the planning/leadership team for several mission trips to Peru. In this session we will look at legal documentation he has used with traveling with students/minors, planning schedules, fundraising and more. Adequate planning and attention to detail can help insure a smooth, trouble free (or nearly trouble free!) adventure for you, your students and chaperones.
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Conference Schedule (draft)
Conference Interest Session Schedule
Exhibits: Exhibits will be open from 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 25
1pm – 1:50pm: Repertoire Session: Middle School and High School
2pm – 2:50pm: Nick Blain: The Case for Traditionally Instrumental Techniques in the Choral Medium
3:15pm – 4pm: Ellen Ramey: Chorale in the Coalfields: Teaching the Arts in West Virginia Schools
7:30 – 8:20pm: Marshall Haning: Deconstructed Sight-Singing: Breaking Down the Skills
8:40am – 9:30am: Repertoire Session: Church and Community Choir 9:40am – 10:30am: Ilse Long: Why Can’t I Sing: The Impact of Self-Efficacy Enhancing Techniques on Student Self-Efficacy Be-
liefs 10:40am – 11:30am: Ed Harkless: Travel Tips from 24 Years of Domestic and International Travel 1:40pm – 2:30pm: David L. Means: Effective Music Literacy: I Love Sight-reading! 2:40pm – 3:30pm: Repertoire Session: Multi-Cultural Repertoire for all choir levels 3:40pm – 4:30pm: David L. Means: Effective Leadership: Conducting Mastery
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Honor Concert/Choir Festival Saturday, January 27
Municipal Auditorium
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. WV ACDA Honor Choirs Concert
WV State Choral Festival Sponsored by WVACDA
The 2018 WV State Choral Festival will be held on April 14th at the University of Charleston.
The festival is open to all middle school, junior high, and high school choirs with directors
who are members of WVACDA. Participating choirs will perform prepared literature and will
be asked to sight-sing. Directors may elect to have their choir rated in one or both. They can
also elect to just receive comments from the judges.
Registration will be opening soon!
$100 for the first ensemble
$75 for each additional ensemble
Sample score sheets and sight-singing info can be found on out website.
