Choir Fam Podcast
Choir Fam Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 158 - Stirring the Pot to Encourage Vocal & Choral Dialogue - Mandy Matthews
“I really care a lot about what the student wants to get out of our time together: finding a nice, healthy, balanced phonation that they identify with, that they feel is their true sound, not something I’m forcing them to sound like. More than ...
Ep. 157 - Text Painting and Structure in Multimovement Works - Dylan Trần
“I shortlisted it to about 10 or 11 poems. I printed them all out on big pieces of paper, and I did visual sketches of what the piece might look like. I would lay them out on the ground, mix them around, and play with what kind of arc it would ...
Ep. 156 - Building Choral Programs by Putting Students First - J. Edmund Hughes
“There’s three things we have in music: the choir, the rehearsals, and the concerts. We put the people first, not the product. There’s a lot of coaches who have this collateral damage thing about winning, and we choral directors have this colla...
Ep. 155 - On the Changing Landscapes of Choral Music - Jocelyn Hagen & Timothy Takach
“There’s still so much we can say through choral music, and a good portion of the music that gets put on the concert stage revolves around similar themes that are timeless, that humans are always wrestling with. At the same time, life moves on,...
Ep. 154 - Composing Idiomatic and Empathetic Music for Vocalists - Raphael Fusco
“Nobody really teaches you how to write for the voice because every voice is different. We’re given these standard ranges, which is fine for harmony exercises that aren’t meant to be sung. The information we have guiding us is half-knowledge th...
