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Inside this issue:A Tattoo for the All American Chorus

Getting The Most Out Of Your Festival Experience

The Practical Conductor Grows Into It

More Music Advocacy in The Good Fight

January/February 2016

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Inside this issue:Aligning National Standards for Music Education with Blooms Revised Taxonomy

Music Parents—We Couldn’t Do Without Them!

So Long No Child Left Behind…The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 and What it Means for Music Education

How a Week at Music Camp Can Lead to a Lifetime

Performance:A Cappella Checklist!

COVER PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

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Inside this issue:2016 Annual Choral Director’s Resource Guide

PracticalConductor – Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

ChoralTech – Shure MV88 and MOTIV for iOS Reviewed!

UpClose: Margaret Campbelle-Holmanand Choral Arts Link

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All year long in Choral Director, we write insightful articles on choral festivals, travel destinations, interesting personalities, musicals, technology, performance wear and more. We feature leading experts on vocal performance to the nation’s most qualified audience of choral music educators who read Choral Director because every issue features:

WALTER BITNER: a multi-instrumentalist, singer, conductor, and master teacher, and director of education & community engagement at the Nashville Symphony, delivers a full year of in-depth Solfège instruction in his “Off the Podium” column.

TOM MERRILL: brings over 25 years of knowledge as a music educator, travel planner, and festival organizer in his “Festivals” column, giving expert advice on getting the most from your educational choral travel and festival experiences.

JAIME BABBITT: Her “Vocal Health” column provides pro tips for maintaining the voice. Jaime coached voice/performance for Disney. She is a jingle singer for Coke, Pillsbury, Chevrolet, toured with Leon Russell, Sam Moore, recorded for George Strait, Barbra Streisand, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Johnny Mathis, performed off-Broadway and coaches voice in NYC, LA and Connecticut.

FRED BOGERT: With 45 years in the music business, Fred has produced, arranged, written for and performed on three Grammy-nominated CDs, as well as appeared as composer, producer, and performer with a variety of major artists. He writes about practical choral arranging in column, “By Arrangement.”

BRODY MCDONALD: Director of Wright State University’s contemporary a cappella group, ETHOS director of choirs at Kettering Fairmont High School. A leader of the high school a cappella movement, contributor to the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America and nominator/judge for the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Association. Brody writes the “Practical Conductor” column covering all things choral management and performance.

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