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inclusion in Canadian children’s future choral music educators by for their students and the means
choirs and LGBTQ approaches, Dr. Christopher W. Peterson, who to achieve said goals through
specific chapters on pedagogy for serves as a professor of choral mu- thoughtful classroom organization

boychoir, men’s chorus at the col- sic education at California State and detailed lesson planning. Fur-
lege and university level, and Black University, Fullerton. Peterson’s thermore, learning or refreshing
Gospel Choral Music as well as a text certainly is an outstanding ideas about rehearsal techniques
chapter dedicated to the choral en- guide to prepare the future music and musicianship development
semble’s capacity to change lives. educator for the choral classroom, are included in this text. There
“Choral Pedagogy and the but can also serve as a refresher and are useful materials and ideas that
Voice” includes a discussion of the inspiration for early career as well can assist the music educator on
vocal mechanism as it relates to the as veteran choral music educators. how to organize and develop life-
choral rehearsal. The section on the There are many resources and long thinking musicians through
voice is brief but its inclusion is im- ideas in this outstanding text that thoughtful discussion leadership.
portant since, without the voice, we can inform and transform the This approach to classroom discus-
really don’t have a choir. Its pres- choral music educator to be in- sion has the potential to transform
ervation and the understanding of tentional in what they do in the the music-making process into a
it by conductors often is the diff er- choral classroom. This includes a life-changing process of owner-
ence between success and failure in thoughtful exposition and appli- ship and heart-full performance.
the creation of life-long musicians. cation of educational theory for Ideas that will help a veteran
The Oxford Handbook of Choral Ped- the music classroom, and behav- and a beginning teacher recruit
agogy is thorough, thoughtful, and ioral traits that will help an indi- and the intent behind recruitment
thought provoking. The editors and vidual to be successful as a music is also offered, along with strate-

contributing authors have succeed- educator. It also inspires choral gies for assessment, classroom and
ed in creating a forward-looking directors to be thoughtful about program organization. Classroom
volume while not dismissing some the long-term educational goals management techniques that have
established traditions. It is a hefty
read but well worth the time.

Submitted by Gene Peterson

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