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Saturday, February 25 Detailed Schedule

only nine choruses for LGBTQ+ and tures is virtually unacknowledged 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
allied youth in the United States—is in choral classrooms. Additionally,
a choral community that empowers Black music’s historical, social, and SSAA and SATB High School
young people to uplift queer voices cultural contexts are often ignored. Honor Choir Concerts
and other marginalized populations. This session will explore two Afro-
Since 2020, GenOUT has been en- Brazilian music cultures—jongo Cincinnati Music Hall
gaged in a youth-inspired initiative and samba reggae—through learn-
to increase the racial and geographic ing activities based on Patricia Springer Auditorium
representation of the chorus to more Shehan Campbell’s World Music Jared Berry, presider
accurately reflect the diversity of the Pedagogy framework and Gloria Chair, National Honor Choir
Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Ladson-Billings’s culturally relevant
In this session, singers in GenOUT pedagogy theory. All participants 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
will share how and when they recog- will receive lesson plans on jongo
nized the problem of underrepresen- and samba reggae.
tation, describe their five-year plan to 1 SSAA High School Honor Choir
address this problem, and discuss the Diego Pinto, presenter Pearl Shangkuan, Conductor
successes and challenges along the
way. The session will include perfor- Madlen Batchvarona, presider Caritas Habundat
mances of repertoire that highlight Chair, National R&R for Hildegard von Bingen
GenOUT’s history and its journey to World Musics & Cultures Ubi Caritas

become more welcoming to youth of Dan Forrest
color and youth in underrepresented Beckenhorst Press
areas. 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Arirang
C. Paul Heins, presenter Black Diaspora Immersion Choir arr. Hyo-Won Woo

GenOUT Youth Chorus, Insight Choir Soundcheck Walton Music
Commission
Margaret Nomura Clark, presider 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Iryna Aleksiychuk (Ukraine)
Chair, State R&R for
Diversity Initiatives, Indigenous People’s Immersion Choir Commission
Denise Onen (South Africa)
Maryland/District of Columbia Soundcheck
By Night
Elaine Hagenberg
4 Singing Afro-Brazilian Music: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Elaine Hagenberg Music
Jongo and Samba Reggae
Latinoamérica Immersion Choir
Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor Soundcheck
South Meeting Rooms 230-233 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM 2 SATB High School Honor Choir
While American choral direc- Eugene Rogers, Conductor
tors have increasingly incorporated Jazz Immersion Choir
diverse music into their choral rep- Soundcheck Look Out Above
ertoire, Black music outside African Jocelyn Hagen & Dessa
and African American music cul- Graphite Publishing

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