A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting

Contents

• Part 1: Leadership, Logistics, and Decision Making
• 1. Responsibilities and Opportunities
• 2. Recruiting, Auditioning, and Assessing
• 3. Choosing and Learning Repertoire
• 4. Common Conductor Problems and How to Avoid or Fix Them
• 5. The Importance of Acquiring a Solid Conducting Technique
• 6. Logistics: Arranging your Singers and Placing your Choir
• 7. Running Rehearsals
• 8. Achieving a Better Choral Sound
• 9. Special Choral Concepts and Techniques
• 10. Collaborating with Other Performers
• 11. Collaborating With, and Supporting Composers
• 12. Concerts and Venues
• 13. The Concert Experience - Directing and Savoring
• 14. Choral Tours
• 15. Making a Recording
• 16. Breaking Rules: When and Why It Is Acceptable
• 17. The World of Professional Choristers - An Inside Look at The New York Virtuoso Singers
• 18. Performing Modern Music
• 19. Final Thoughts
• Part 2: Anthology
• Appendix 1: Interpreting Johann Sebastian Bach's: Matthaus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion) (Barenreiter edition)
• Appendix 2: Interpreting Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem
• Appendix 3: Executing Fermatas in Haydn's Die Schoepfung (The Creation) (Oxford University Press edition)
• Appendix 4: Interpreting Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem (Edition Peters Nr. 4250 or Dover Publications).
• Index