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Then Sings My Soul: Thinking Outside the Box: the direction of Womack have per-
formed for regional and national
Provoking Meaning through Why Creative Concert
conventions of ACDA and NAfME.
a More Rhetorical Choral Programming Matters In addition, Womack has presented
Presence in Worship workshops and lectures for ACDA
Today’s audiences are eager for and NAfME. He currently serves
The purpose of this session is to an immersive concert experience as the ACDA National R&R Chair
explore how church choirs can use that challenges every sense. In this for High School Choirs. He holds a
rhetoric to provoke a more dynam- session, we will talk about how to DMA from the University of South
ic presence in worship. We need to marry sight, sound, and space to en- Carolina.
give meaning to the music through gage new audiences, and a method
the text we sing, creating a kind of for assembling a multi-dimensional
“high definition” approach to choral performance. Tuning Together

singing. We will look at the vocabu-
lary, grammar, and syntax, and how Sam Brukhman will be the clinician as One
the author’s style of writing can pro- for this session. His photo and bio
voke meaning, gesture, and rhetoric. are on page 90. Just Intonation (an approach

Specific takeaways will include prac- where notes are tuned to the natural
tical rehearsal techniques that can overtones of the voice, rather than a
be used with church choral singers Togetherness! tempered instrument, such as the pi-
to enhance rhetorical singing. ano) is a useful tool in optimizing the
Achieving an Excellent vocal resonance in, and enhancing

Charles Hausmann has Unified Choral Sound the intonation of, unaccompanied
served as professor of choral music. This interest session
choral studies at the Many choral conductors’ prima- will demonstrate how easy it is to
University of Hous- ry goal is to achieve a unifi ed sound teach Just Intonation in rehearsals–
ton’s Moores School of within their ensemble. Students in without all the math! Delegates will
Music since 1985, where he has also elementary, secondary, and colle- leave this session having experienced
served as director of choral studies. giate ensembles often times hear the an intuitive, easy-to-use pedagogical
As director emeritus of the Houston word “blend” but are not able to approach, and strategies to use in re-
Symphony Chorus, Hausmann pre- relate this term in the everyday cho- hearsals with their own choirs.
pared and conducted more than 800 ral rehearsal. This presentation will
concerts, collaborating with many of off er an extremely concise look into Andrew Withington is the clinician
the world’s leading conductors in the the subject of how to develop a uni- for this session. His photo and bio
United States, Mexico, and Europe. fi ed, healthy, and artistic vocal tone are on page 52.
Also a career church musician, he is in any choral ensemble regardless of
currently director of traditional mu- size, age, and skill level. The Memorial High School Varsity
sic at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Treble Choir, conducted by Law-
Church, Houston. Damion Womack cur- rence Johnson, is the deomstration
rently serves as assis- choir for this session. Their photos
tant professor of music and bios are on page 94.
and director of choral
activities at Mississippi
College. Choral ensembles under

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