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Lifting Up the Littles: Highlighting your Youngest Singers Through Commissioned Works, Effective Rehearsal, Performance Opportunities, and Student Composition
ferent musical detail and a different movement. Now, is of the note and to achieve an accurate release.
there a way to combine those movements to help your You can repeat this process to try and work in as
singers with both goals through kinesthetic connection? many musical concepts as possible. Prioritize which
For example: in mm 11-15 of “Now We Have Riv- portions of the movement to keep or remove if it starts
ers” (Figure 3), the singers begin by crouching down feeling too awkward or becomes counterproductive for
slightly as they sing “clouds build,” stand and raise your singers. In the same excerpt (“clouds build”), we
their arms along with the crescendo. They also pulse began rehearsing starting with a complete crouch to
their hands open on the beat to internalize the length the ground and a clap above the head on the release.
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