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Contents November/December 2025/Volume 66, Number 4

Articles

6 Especially Do I Believe:
A Conductor’s Guide to Margaret Bonds’s Credo
by Justin Smith
21 Repertoire & Standards - JH/MS and HS Choirs
It’s All About the Singers:
An Interview with Clinton Hardy Ferrie and Philip Brown
by Gretchen Harrison

31 ChorTeach
Lifting Up the Littles: Highlighting Your Youngest Singers Through
Commissioned Works, Effective Rehearsal, Performance Opportunities,
and Student Composition
by Jess Edelbrock

43 The Superpower of the Introverted Choral Conductor
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by Keenan Elijah Dolan, Xinke Shen, Angelica Dunsavage, and CJ Madsen
Since 1959, the Choral Journal has been the refereed,
international journal of the American Choral Directors 68 Damien Geter’s Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow
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