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Wednesday, February 22 Detailed Schedule

teaching strategies for helping our 5 Tone and Style: Using Pop Music 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
singers and communities understand to Build Better Singers
our process for bringing such works Exhibitor Happy Hour
and stories to life. Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
North Meeting Room 206 Duke Energy Convention Center
Sandra Snow, presenter Exhibit Hall
Why should we perform popular
mirabai ensemble, Insight Choir music with our choirs? How can we
use contemporary music to build Composer Fair
Gretchen Harrison, presider stronger singers and diverse pro- Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
Chair, National Standing Committee grams while expanding traditional West Meeting Room
for Repertoire & Resources technique and challenging choral
norms? This session will reveal the Pre-Function Lobby
benefits of popular and contempo-
4 Sleeping Choral Giant: rary music to choral singers and their Research Poster Sessions
Rediscovering the Music of communities while also address-
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ing the most common roadblocks Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor

Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor directors face while teaching it. Junior Ballroom C and D
Participants will leave with a better
South Meeting Rooms 230-233 understanding of the importance Pre-Function Lobby
of culturally native pop music in the
Many choral musicians are fa- choral program, strategies to suc- 6:05 PM - 6:55 PM
miliar with English choral music at cessfully and authentically teach this
the turn of the twentieth century music to their singers, and practical Community Choirs

from the likes of Vaughan Williams, ways to incorporate it into their
Elgar, and Stanford. But few are programs. R&R Forum
aware of the contributions of Samuel Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor
Coleridge-Taylor, a Black English J. D. Frizzell and Rob Dietz, Junior Ballroom B
composer whose choral and orches- presenters
tral works were performed around Community Choirs Survived a
the world to near universal acclaim. Kelsey Burkett, presider
It is time for him to take his rightful Co-Chair, National R&R for Pandemic; Now, How Do We
place among our collection of great Thrive Again?
English choral composers. Come and Contemporary/Commercial
hear selections from his works as we (Show Choir) Join Community Choir conductors
discuss his life, his music, and how to to discuss strategies and best practices
program it for our choirs. in the areas of recruitment/retention,
rehearsal tips & tricks, fundraising/
Will Chandler and Zanaida Stewart grant writing, and other artistic and
Robles, presenters administrative topics.

Jefferson Johnson, presider Presenter: Matt Hill
Director of Choral Activities at the
University of Kentucky

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