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4 To Repair: A Musical Call and story, person, or experience. 6 Where Do We Go From Here?
Pilgrimage for Our Time A DIC Panel

Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor Mark Stover, presenter Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
Junior Ballroom D University of Michigan Men's Glee North Meeting Room 212

What does it mean to seek to repair Club, Insight Choir Learn about accessibility, diversity,
in our communities? How can we do Anton Armstrong, presider equity, inclusion, belonging, and re-
it? We must begin internally, with a storative justice (ADEIBR) initiatives
willingness to look in the mirror and Conductor, St. Olaf Choir, Minnesota within the ACDA and the application
consider what needs to be done to of these initiatives across the orga-
repair within. As we repair within, nization nationally. Structured as a
we can look to those around us—our 5 (Trans)itioning Voices: Inclusivity panel discussion and moderated by
families, neighbors, colleagues, and through Line Recombination Arreon A. Harley-Emerson, Chair
friends—turning to the work of re- Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor of the DIC, this session will be an op-
pair in those immediate relationships portunity for attendees to hear about
in our lives. As we repair within our North Meeting Rooms 201-204 these initiatives and ask questions of
inner circles, we can then look to the Diversity Initiatives Committee,
the broader community and society This session presents a new meth- and Robyn Hilger, ACDA Executive
in which we live, work, and play. odology to promote the inclusivity of Director. By providing session attend-
To repair requires the humility to transgender and gender expansive ees insight into what is happening on
acknowledge something is broken in (TGE) individuals in choral ensem- the national level, we also hope to
the first place. bles. Line recombination involves further enable the attendees to imple-
This 2023 ACDA Insight Choir combining portions of the existing ment ADEIBR practices in their own
session will feature the University of alto and tenor lines in a mixed en- choral communities.
Michigan Men’s Glee Club, music semble in order to provide a singable
director Mark Stover, and composer part without changing the musical Arreon A. Harley-Emerson, Robyn
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu in an inter- content of the piece, thus supporting Hilger, and Members of the Diversity
active and illuminating conversation the student’s gender identity and ac- Initiatives Standing Committee,
and encounter with a commisioned counting for their vocal health during presenters
work that was borne from a desire and after transition. Attendees will
to truly learn what was needed to sing recombined lines in standard
repair in the wake of the events of the repertoire and learn how to create
summer of 2020. Tesfa visited over their own lines to provide an alterna-
forty cities in the Midwest, Eastern tive for their TGE singers that meets
Seaboard, and Deep South during their vocal needs without compromis-
June and July 2021. This pilgrimage ing musical integrity.
became the foundation for the multi-
movement work. Tesfa, Mark, and Stevie J. Hirner, presenter
students from the Men’s Glee Club
will share experiences from the resi- Julie Dana, presider
dency and world premiere, showing President-Elect, Western Region
how the journey to repair has embed-
ded itself within our collective lives as
a result. Every note, phrase, harmony,
rhythm, and melody is connected to a

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