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Your Name: Jo Brinkle Your Email Address: jabrinkle@hotmail.com Type your answer here: I studied under two of the best, Alfred Skoog and Gary Morris. They both had many wonderful qualities, first of all never except mediocrity and secondly always, always the music is the most important thing. I believe as we go through life in this business, we enjoy many successes with our students, but never lose sight of the fact that we were put here to inspire them. |
| Your Name: suzanne callahan Your Email Address: swcall@cox-internet.com Type your answer here: organization! |
| Your Name: Beverly Finley Your Email Address: cfinley@bscn.com Type your answer here: Developing your students into independent musicians. |
| Your Name: elaine harris Your Email Address: elaineh_72120@yahoo.com Type your answer here: To develop students to be lifetime singers and supporters of music programs. |
| Your Name: Rhonda Hawley Your Email Address: rhondahawley@cox.net Type your answer here: Students who go through your program who choose Choral Directing as their career. |
| Your Name: Rachel Pinto Your Email Address: rachel.pinto@yahoo.com Type your answer here: Successful students. |
| Your Name: Andrea Ramsey Your Email Address: aramsey@bentonville.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: Many great choir directors concern themselves with excellence in choice of literature, quality & stylistic variety of choral tone, and successful teaching of a sightreading method. Truly exceptional choir directors find a place beyond all music & technicality where they connect with their singers as people....sharing in their successes & failures, caring and nurturing them as a person. A good choir director makes you a better singer. A great choir director makes you a better person. |
Your Name: W. Thomas Rickman Ratings and Numbers and Region chairs are all merely indicators of this. If the group mentality is deep seeded, then all these other things will follow. |
| Your Name: Sharon Cooper Your Email Address: swardcooper@m34u.net Type your answer here: There are so many things that a successful choral director must know and be able to teach. 1.Be able to teach students to read music by whatever method the teacher is comfortable with. 2. Be able to hear problems with vocal production, pitch, rhythm, blend, balance, vowels, etc. and know how to correct the problems. 3. Must be a great communicator. |
| Your Name: Tom Street Your Email Address: tomstreet@arkcda.org Type your answer here: Well, first you have to define success. In general though I would say that the primary hallmark of a successful choral director is that he/she never ceases to be a STUDENT. He/she is always on the lookout for new literature, new techniques, new ways to communicate with singers. There is a keen sense of curiosity coupled with a desire to learn. |
| Your Name: Alecia Stringer Your Email Address: asrs815@aol.com Type your answer here: I believe a successful choral director can show improvement in their choir from the beginning of the year to the end. It proves that the students gain more confidence and experience. |
| Your Name: tinan Your Email Address: tinan@searcyschools.org Type your answer here: How about two things: Never giving up on the belief that you and your students can perform the music as the composer intended it to be sung and then taking the steps to make it happen. Secondly always remember the power and magic that choral music possesses(spelling?). |
Your Name: tinan |