Professional Development

North Dakota ACDA

Professional Development

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RECOMMENDED READING AND TEXTS:

The Courage to Teach - Parker Palmer

Choral Conducting Symposium - Harold Decker/Julius Herford

Choral Pedagogy - Brenda Smith/Robert Sataloff

Voice Building for Choirs - Wilhelm Ehmann

Teaching Music With Passion - Peter Boonshaft

Face to Face With an Orchestra - Don Moses/Robert Demaree Jr./Allen Ohmes

A Guide to Art Song & Literature - Carol Kimball

The Structure of Singing - Richard Miller

Singing: The Mechanism & the Technic - William Vennard

The Perfect Rehearsal - Timothy Seelig

Teaching Choral Music - Don Collins

Teaching Kids to Sing - Kenneth Phillips

Translations & Annotations of Choral Repertoire: German, French/Italian, Latin & Hebrew - Ron Jeffers

The Robert Shaw Reader - Dean Blocker

Things They Never Taught You in Choral Methods - Jorgenson/Pfeiler

Warm-up Collection - Compiled by Sally Albrecht

Choral Charisma: Singing With Expression - Tom Carter

Directing the School Choral Program - Kenneth Phillips

Evoking Sound - James Jordan

Other conducting videos & texts

OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH & COLLEGE CREDIT:

NDSU Choral Symposium 2013: Music of the Americas

National ACDA Conference

North Central ACDA Conference

NDACDA Convention

Minnesota Summer Dialogue