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           4    Sleeping Choral Giant:      popular and contemporary music to   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
          Rediscovering the Music of        choral singers and their communities
          Samuel Coleridge-Taylor           while also addressing the most com-  Concert Session B  (Four Choirs)
          Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor          mon roadblocks directors face while   Cincinnati Music Hall
                                            teaching it.  Participants will leave
          South Meeting Rooms 230-233       with a better understanding of the   Springer Auditorium
                                            importance of culturally native pop
             Many choral musicians are fa- music in the choral program, strate-  Christopher Kiver, presider
          miliar with English choral music at  gies to successfully and authentically   President, Eastern Region
          the turn of the twentieth century  teach this music to their singers, and
          from the likes of Vaughan Williams,  practical ways to incorporate it into   2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
          Elgar, and Stanford. But few are  their programs.
          aware of the contributions of Samuel                                  1 Young People's Chorus
          Coleridge-Taylor, a Black English   J. D. Frizzell and Rob Dietz,    of New York City
          composer whose choral and orches-  presenters
          tral works were performed around                                     Elizabeth Núñez, conductor
          the world to near universal acclaim.     Kelsey Burkett, presider
          It is time for him to take his rightful   Co-Chair, National R&R for    Suite for Dancing Voices:
          place among our collection of great   Contemporary/Commercial        I. Shing Way
          English choral composers. Come and   (Show Choir)                    II. Afternoon Melodies
          hear selections from his works as we                                 III. Quarry Weave
          discuss his life, his music, and how to                              IV. Panda Chant
                                                                               Meredith Monk
          program it for our choirs.
                                              2:00 PM - 2:50 PM                Boosey and Hawkes

          Will Chandler and Zanaida Stewart                                    Mignonne, allon voir si la Roze
          Robles, presenters                  Exhibitor’s Showcase             Guillaume Costeley
                                                                               www.imslp.org
          Jefferson Johnson, presider       Carus-Verlag Stuttgart             Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman
          Director of Choral Activities at the                                 Francisco J. Núñez
          University of Kentucky            Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor           based on Mozart variations
                                            Meeting Rooms 260-262              Hal Leonard Corporation

                                            Bruckner 2024: 200th anniversary of   For Every Mountain
           5  Tone and Style: Using Pop Music    his birth (by Carus).         Kurt Carr
          to Build Better Singers                                              World Music Archive
          Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor                                             Sound of  Music
          North Meeting Room 206                                               Rogers & Hammerstein

                                                                               arr. Matt Podd
             Why should we perform popular                                     Manuscript
          music with our choirs? How can we
          use  contemporary music  to  build
          stronger singers and diverse programs
          while expanding traditional tech-
          nique and challenging choral norms?
          This session will reveal the benefits of
          CHORAL JOURNAL  February 2023 / 2023 ACDA National Conference Program Book                                           Volume 63  Number 6            51
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