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Carolina Caroler
An official, Award-Winning publication
of the 6orth Carolina Chapter
of the American Choral Directors Association
Membership 13
Application Form
Special musical guests
Brethren 6ewsletter Info 14
Presidents Message
C ACDA Officers
Ginger Wyrick, NC ACDA President
2009-2011
In 2009, I brought greetings for a happy Conventions.
President new year as we began our journey Carey Can-
Ginger Wyrick together. Almost two years have passed, non, with the
6200 Maple Cove Lane and we are preparing for new leadership. support of
Charlotte, NC 28269 Thank you for the privilege of serving as your board,
704.948.4363 your state president. I am grateful for invited this
ggw@hwaci.com your support and involvement in making ensemble to
Past President
NC ACDA stronger. We celebrate present a concert for us this September,
Daniel J. Bara continued growth, creative R&S then remain in town to sing along with
Hugh Hodgson School programming, active members, exciting MVAS! You do not want to miss this
of Music conferences, festivals, and honor choir opportunity for your male singers to
University of Georgia experiences, and amazing leadership. perform with Christopher Aspaas and
Athens, Georgia 30609 Brethren.
(706) 542-2797 It is wonderful to hand over a strong,
dbara@uga.edu healthy state chapter to Bill Young as Two years ago I began my presidency
President on July 1. I encourage you to with a blessing. As I say goodbye, I hope
President-Elect
Welborn E. Young (Bill) stand with Bill by your presence at you have seen these come to fruition in
UNC Greensboro ACDA activities and your willingness your own programs:
School of Music to serve when asked. He is actively
P.O. Box 26167 preparing for the coming two years. I Your weakest singer achieved a
Greensboro, NC 27402 look forward to his leadership. musical success.
336.334.5428
weyoung@uncg.edu Congratulations to Sandy Holland, our You discovered a new piece perfect
new president-elect. Sandy brings much
Secretary for your ensemble.
Gwen Hall
experience in ACDA leadership. She will
Southwest Randolph work with Bill over her term learning the You had a rehearsal moment that
High School responsibilities of the president while
renewed your joy in choral music.
1641 Hopewell Friends Road chairing the Fall Conference.
Asheboro, NC 27205
I am pleased to announce NC ACDA A choir member spoke an
336.381.7747
gwenmcleodhall@earthlink.net has once again been awarded a Southern unexpected kind word to you.
Division Choral Advocacy Grant. This
Treasurer
year's grant supports A Jublilant Song, You made a difference in the lives of
Jeffrey Ward
East Carolina University our Sacred Music Festival held in your singers.
A.J. Fletcher Music Center conjunction with fall conference. This is
Greenville, NC 27858 the second year NC ACDA has received You had a rehearsal with everyone
252.328.2557 this grant. I am grateful to Andy Roby present and healthy.
wardj@ecu.edu for the work he is doing to bring this
festival back to Fall Conference for our You found time for silence and rest.
Membership Chair
Rob Frazier music and worship R&S area.
Myers Park Thank you for walking with me. May
Presbyterian Church Be sure to read about Brethren coming to we continue singing together!
2501 Oxford Place Fall Conference and MVAS! You may
Charlotte, NC 28207 have heard this amazing male choir at Still singing,
704.376.3695 x253 recent Southern Division or National Ginger Wyrick
rfrazier@mysersparkpres.org
ewsletter Editor
Anne M. Saxon
4105 Sewanee Drive Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
336.922.4073 ~Helen Exley
Midpatch@aol.com
Summer 2011 page 3
President-Elect
C ACDA Specially
Sandy Holland Appointed Officers
Congratulations to Sandy Holland, our new president-elect. NC ACDA Auditions
members had strong participation in our first online election. Craig Sam Doyle
Gregory, ACDA Assistant Director and State Liaison, was very pleased 1313 Westminster Drive
with the active membership of NC in the online voting process. Gregory Greensboro, NC 27410
assisted NC ACDA in making the voting easy and accessible. We were 336.282.0549
able to save money, expedite the process, and get our results immedi- sam2ann@triad.rr.com
ately.
Conference Exhibits
We look forward to Sandy's development of Fall Conference during her tenure as president-elect. She
Aaron Jackson
brings wonderful experience throughout all levels of ACDA and is an asset to our state leadership.
Christ Baptist Church
Sandy begins her position July 1, alongside Bill Young as President. She will serve as state president 400 Newton Road
from 2013-2015. Raleigh, NC 27615
919.573.5454
aaron@christbaptist.org
Conference Site Host
Carole Ott
UNC Greensboro School of Music
NC ACDA Wins GrantAgain! P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402
NC ACDA is pleased to announce its second Southern Division 336.334.5428
cjott@uncg.edu
Advocacy/Development Grant. This grant supports Jubilant
Song: A Sacred Choral Festival with Jeffrey Redding. The Lara Hoggard
announcement was made by Division President Brad Almquist at Award Chair
Sam Doyle
the Chicago National Conference in March. The division (see Auditions info listed
launched the pilot grant program in 2010. above)
Womens All-State
North Carolina ACDA was the first recipient of the funds last
Coordinator
year for NC Sings! A Workshop for Young Voices. Grant funding Jeremy Truhel
was made available to support advocacy for choral music or the Forsyth Country Day School
development of special programs in choral music at the state or 5501 Shallowford Road
division level repertory and standards areas. P.O. Box 549
Lewisville, NC 27023-0549
336.945.3151
Ginger Wyrick, NC ACDA President, and Andy Roby, R&S Chair jeremytruhel@fcds.org
for Music and Worship, share a vision for a statewide sacred
Technology Chair
music event. When the grant program was renewed for the Webmaster
2011-2012 fiscal year, the two developed the event parame- Bert Fox
ters and began writing the proposal. "I are thrilled to have our Lufkin Road Middle School
event selected again by the Division," said Ginger Wyrick after 1002 Lufkin Road
Cary, NC 27539
the announcement was made. "North Carolina recognizes the 919.387.4465
investment we are making in choral music by having events foxsterb@aol.com
such as this for our sacred music ensembles. It is imperative
Conference Reading Sessions
that we strengthen and support the wealth of our choral Eric Johnson
tradition in our sacred music singers of North Carolina. We are James E. Holmes Middle School
pleased that the division has chosen to support our efforts once 211 N. Pierce Street
again this year." Eden, NC 27288
ejohnson@rock.k12.nc.us
336.623.9791 x108
Jubilant Song: A Sacred Choral Festival takes place this
September in conjunction with Fall Conference in Greensboro. MVAS Coordinator
Carey Cannon
Providence Baptist Church
3921 Randolph Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
ccannon@providencebc.org
704.366.4030 x122
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Greetings! The 2011 Womens All-State Choir was a huge success! Our clinician was Deanna
Joseph, the newly-appointed Director of Choral Activities at Georgia State University. Ms.
Joseph connected to the young women of our state in a meaningful and caring way that brought
so many memories for years to come.
Plans for the 2012 All-State Festival are underway! The dates are Jan. 27-28, 2012 with clinician
Dr. Janet Galvn from Ithaca College. Registration will be completed online and allotments emailed to you. The website
will be up and running by the middle of August with a deadline of September 10, 2011. Be on the lookout this sum-
mer for an email from Beverly Alt and myself, your All-State Coordinators.
U s i n g Po e t i c I m a g e r y
Dr. Carol Ott, College/University R&S Chair
It is a great and wonderful privilege that we dwell in a study routine.
musical world filled with exquisite poetic ideas. It was
language that propelled me from the instrumental world to Study
a vocal one, where the notes are carriers and interpreters of Spend time with the poem away
words and where words illuminate and accentuate musical from the music. Find out how it
lines and phrases. I could linger all day in the atmosphere appears in print. A poems physical
evoked by George Peeles Hot sun, cool fire (below), look on the page can inform how it was originally meant
delighting in the images of cool fire tempered with sweet to be experienced.
air and inviting the black shade...(to) shadow my white
hair. When set to music by Jonathon Dove in his cycle What impact
The Passing of the does the poem
Year, the layers of have on you?
In the beginning was the word... Does it speak to
context deepen
through Doves you directly or is
Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air, its meaning more
illumination of the
Black shade, fair nurse, shadow my white hair. obscure?
text.
Shine, sun; burn, fire; breathe, air, and ease me;
It would be easy What form
Black shade, fair nurse, shroud me and please me.
to get caught up does the poetry
Shadow, my sweet nurse, keep me from burning; take? Is it a son-
in Doves intense Make not my glad cause cause of mourning.
harmonic lan- net? Haiku? Free
Let not my beautys fire verse? Does it
guage or beautiful Inflame unstaid desire,
snippets of mel- rhyme? Does it
Nor pierce any bright eye have rhythm?
ody, but with only
That wandereth lightly.
the musical per- If the poet
spective we risk ~George Peele
was prolific, read
losing important more. This is
layers of meaning. made incredibly easy through Google Books. Many
Why did George Peele write Hot sun, cool fire? An Eliza- collections of poetry can be found readily in their
bethan poet, Peele (1556-1596) wrote this for Bathsheba to original language and in translation.
sing at the beginning of his play The Love of King David Prepare
and Fair Bethsabe. With the Tragedie of Absalon. When it
first appeared in print in 1599, the text appeared with old How does the composer set the text? Is the poetic form
English spellings: Hot sunne, coole fire, temperd with highlighted or obscured? Pay attention to the punctua-
sweet aire (etc.). We also know that it was originally tion of the poem and where it appears in the musical
written as a song for a biblical play. Not only does this line. Lifting at commas can illuminate an otherwise
knowledge bring new meaning to the poem and the long and unintelligible sentence for the listener.
musical setting, it can bring new meaning to an entire When did the poet live? Were the composer and poet
program. acquainted?
In Jerry Blackstones session Had we known this back How do the words sound? This is particularly important
when at our last state conference, one of his comments with foreign language texts. If you can find them, listen to
was that he wished he knew how much he loves words. recordings of the poet reading
The words are easy to overlook in favor of the technicali- his/her own poems. A good
ties of singing the right notes and the right rhythms with print dictionary will have an
the right vocal technique. When we adopt a well get to IPA transliteration and most
the meaning of the words once the notes and rhythms are online dictionaries now include
learned approach, we rob both ourselves and our ensem- recordings of individual words.
bles of a deeply human aspect of music making. As choral YouTube has some postings of
conductors, we have the challenge and delight of interpret- poets reading their works.
ing text on multiple levels. I would like to make these sug-
gestions as a guide to internalizing text as part of a score (Continued on page 10)
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orchestras and chamber music ensembles in the colonies, including classical and contemporary,
and built some of the first organs and stringed instruments. sacred and secular choral works. This
American Classical music was first written here in 1789 programming has won the organization
by Johann Friedrich Peter. The city is home to the states awards and earned wide-ranging praise.
oldest city symphony, and Winston-Salem created the
nations first Arts Council in 1949, which set off the arts Another highlight of the conference will be
council movement in the United States. VOICES OF LIGHT, presented by the Bel
Canto Company, the University of North
The Conference will feature three Honor Choirs, Carolina at Greensboro Chamber Singers;
including a Childrens Honor Choir, conducted by Welborn Young, conductor;
Robyn Lana, Artistic Director of and the Greensboro Youth
the Cincinnati Childrens Choir; Chorus - Cantabile; Ann
a Junior High SATB Honor Doyle, conductor. VOICES
Choir, conducted by Lynnel Joy OF LIGHT merges the legen-
Jenkins, Artistic Director of the dary silent film masterpiece
Princeton Girlchoir and Choral The Passion of Joan of Arc
Director at Timberlane Middle with a live performance of
School; and a Senior High SATB a beautiful new work by
Honor Choir, conducted by composer Richard Einhorn.
Joe Miller, Director of Choral An incredibly moving and
Activities at Westminster Choir popular composition for solo
College. voices, chorus and orchestra,
Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, Director of Choral Programs at the VOICES OF LIGHT has been
University of Toronto, will serve as the clinician for the (Continued on page 11)
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Prepare the notes. Edit the music rhythmically to make space for poetic lifts, breaths, and text stress.
Communicate
Use your gesture to communicate text stress, lifts, direction, and intensity. Experiment with different gestures until
you find one that communicates your intention most clearly (the video camera will help with this).
Speak the text to the ensemble as you expect the words to be sung. Pay particular attention to vowel sounds, shaping
the ensembles collective sound to each individual vowel.
If the text is in a foreign language, give both a poetic and literal translation of the text. Make this available to the
choir either though verbal instruction or a written document. A dictionary (either in print or online) is the best re-
source for a literal translation. Understanding why certain words are expressed with dissonance will deepen the en-
sembles expressive capacity.
Have a student volunteer read the poem to the ensemble. This can be even more effective than reading the poem or
translation yourself and is equally successful across age levels.
In The Beauty of Gesture, Catherine David writes, True interpretation requires a saturated memory. To exit time, we
have to pass through it. Internalization of poem by conductor and ensemble through study, preparation, and communi-
cation will broaden the possibilities for expression in both rehearsal and performance. Allow yourself to fully experience
the text away from the notes. Seek out how it appeared in the beginning. By delving deeply into the texts of the music
we conduct, we find entirely new dimensions of connection between ourselves, the words, and the music.
Chicago
ACDA #ational Conference
Scenes
Summer 2011 page 11
Above:
Scenes from ACDA Chicago Conference:
St. Patricks Day Celebrations,
Including the Chicago River dyed green;
Left:
Classic Rocker Guitars
at Chicago Blues Club, Legends.
Newsletter Update
Anne Saxon, Editor The Carolina Caroler is the official newsletter of the North Carolina chapter of
the American Choral Directors Association. Articles and advertisements may be
Another chorus season submitted to: Anne M. Saxon at Midpatch@aol.com. Articles may be submitted
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an opportunity to rest Issue Deadline Publication
and relax, along with Fall June 15 July 15
taking advantage of the Spring Dec. 15 Jan. 15
many opportunities for Summer April 15 May 15
professional renewal and development.
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