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3 Anyone Can Improvise! as an incubator for change-agent Colleen McNickle, presenter
An Essential Guide to Solo/Group thinking, addressing the issues that
Improvisation intellectually, physically, and socially Vincent Oakes, presider
impact the Black community. This
Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor session traces the development of Past President, Southern Region
South Meeting Rooms 263-264 the soundtrack of the Black church
and offers a grounded and practical
How does one introduce impro- approach to performance practice, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
visation to a choir and to individual gesture, programming, and choral
singers? This session will answer that pedagogy. Attendees will actively en- Exhibitor’s Showcase
question and many more through a gage in singing and conducting, with
series of specific exercises and tech- examples expertly demonstrated by Chorus America
niques that will provide the tools to a lab choir of conference attendees. Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
successfully integrate improvisation
into their choral classroom. All par- Arreon A. Harley-Emerson, presenter Meeting Rooms 260-262
ticipants will leave this session with
an improvisation guidebook that Noel Archambeault, presider Building healthy choral organiza-
will include many solo and group Member, National Standing tions.
improvisation exercises (including Committee for Diversity Initiatives
those introduced in the session) as 10:00AM - 11:15 AM
well as an introduction to jazz theory
with examples of chords/scale rela- 5 TikTok and Choir:
tionships and basic jazz piano chord Collegiate Student
voicing techniques. An Unexpected Pairing Conductor's Institute
Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor Undergraduate
Tim Brent, presenter North Meeting Rooms 201-204 Conducting Masterclass

Cara Tasher, presider This interactive session will ex- Live-streaming sponsored by
State Past President, Florida plore the unexpected and beneficial Manhattan Concert Productions
pairing of choir and the social media
app TikTok. By utilizing TikTok as Cincinnati Music Hall
4 Come Sunday: Using Black a teaching, learning, recruitment, Grand Ballroom
Liberation Theology to Inform coping, and advertising tool, choir
Performance Practice directors have the opportunity to Clinicians: Felicia Barber, Joe Miller,
connect to students and communities
Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor and eliminate barriers to music learn- Elizabeth Schafer, and André Thomas
South Meeting Rooms 230-233 ing and making in an innovative way. Morningside University Choir
Participants will leave the session with Demonstration Choir
In the United States, the Black practical teaching resources, TikTok Ryan Person, conductor
church’s mission has been two- how-to’s, and an understanding of
pronged. It has been a place of the many benefits of utilizing social
comfort where community members media. They will be empowered to
celebrate, mourn, and commune claim their space on the social media
in an affirming spiritual center. app and to utilize its many videos and
The Black church has also served teaching tools with their ensembles.

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