Teaching Your Choir to Think Chorally Session explores what it means to “think chorally”, moving from narrow focus, to broad understanding of singer’s contribution to performance

Balance and Blend and the Singers Place Responsibility for Balance? Responsibility for Blend?

Exploring What the Singer is Thinking Pitch and rhythm Once confident with pitch and rhythm, then what……?

Singers place related to vibrato Speed of vibrato (no problem) Width of vibrato (problem) For conductor, vibrato is a matter of taste and tonal desire For singer, vibrato is a major responsibility

Singers place related to volume and timbre of voice Determined by voice categorization-assign a role to the singer Assign useful labels to the voice for placement and color-assign a color

Singers place related to line placement Singer needs to know the line Singer needs to sing the line Singer needs to show the line