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Children/Community Youth Jim Henry, presider bearers/scholars. Presenters will
R&R Deep Dive University of Missouri, St. Louis bust myths about Jewish music and
Haitian Vodou before delving into

Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor the richness these musics offer. Mini-
Junior Ballroom D 2 Fifteen+ Pieces for reading sessions will offer ethically
Small Church Choirs sourced repertoire, and presenters
Repertoire for C&CY You Don't Want will discuss access to culture bearers,
to Miss! Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor quality repertoire, and how to pro-
South Meeting Rooms 230-233 gram respectfully while combating
Our deep dive will feature four and addressing appropriation.
exceptional selections aimed at Does your church choir struggle
different levels of ability and maturity with basic rhythms, divisi among the Sydney Guillaume and
from beginning to advanced singers. vocal parts, and a cappella singing? Coreen Duffy, presenters
Presented by clinicians passionate During this session, John M. Petzet
about bringing this music to life for will introduce you to over forty church Danielle Warner, presider
young singers! anthems that are simple enough for State President-Elect, Oregon
small church choirs to learn quickly,
Presenter: Joy Hirokawa sing well, and maximize tone quality.

4 Langston Hughes' Literary Voice
Interest Sessions John Martin Petzet, presenter in Black Women Composers'
Choose from four options Bryan Black, presider Choral Works

Chair, National R&R for Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
1 The Evolution of Brazilian Choral Music in Worship North Meeting Rooms 201-204
Music from Baroque to Present

Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor The significance of Langston
North Meeting Room 206 3 From Appropriation Hughes’s body of work in the twen-
to Reconciliation: tieth-century literary canon has been
The Evolution of Brazilian Cho- How We Heal; Where to Turn well-reviewed in academic circles.
ral Music will be explored in this What has not been exhaustively re-
session through recordings and Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor viewed is Hughes’s criticality to clas-
scores from the Baroque period to South Meeting Rooms 263-264 sical and popular genres of American
the present day. Participants will music. African American music, its
learn various new Brazilian music Appropriation in choral music fuels beauty, cultural implications, and
from different periods and genres disrespect and encourages erasure. In depictions of African American
and find where to access that music this session, composers/culture-bear- people was unequivocally essential
for performance (website for the ers Sydney Guillaume and Coreen to Hughes’s writings. The purpose
score—public domain or publisher). Duffy will illustrate how we heal from of this presentation is to provide thor-
A discussion will take place about the historic harm: 1) understand how it ough textual and musical analyses of
performance practices of each piece manifested; 2) realize the damage; a specific set of repertoire composed
and period. 3) program repertoire that respects by African American women. The
originating cultures; 4) repair errors or selected choral works share two com-
Matheus Cruz Paes de Almeida, discontinue performance of offending mon traits: (1) they are all scored for
presenter examples; 5) collaborate with culture mixed chorus and (2) they are all tex-

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