1. 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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

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