101 Great Choir Ideas

by vernsanders on September 1, 2010

Every Wednesday is tip day. Each week’s tip may be about a different topic, but one of the recurring topics is 101 Great Choir Ideas. Here’s this week’s tip.

  • Offer to purchase a software program or computer peripheral that will enable the music director to do their job better.

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Site Update

by vernsanders on August 31, 2010

Following the lead of Chris Guillebeau, I’m doing a regular month-end wrap up on the post that comes the closest to the end of the month. We’ve had lots of variety this month past two months.

July

In July we had a series of conversations: on Planning Ahead, on Holidays and Worship, and on Congregation Size. I also explained why I started a new blog in When I’m 64, asked When did you start doing?, had some Thoughts After Attending the National Worship Leader Conference, and told you How To Change Your Ministry on $1 per week.

August

In August, there was a conversation about Change in Leadership, and I talked about Why the Most Difficult Tasks are the Most Important.

Choral Music

I also presented a series on why Rehearsals are not Practice that started here, and had a great response to the post 10 Important Things I’ve Learned From 40+ Years of Directing Choirs.

Thanks

Thanks for following along. I’m glad you’re here. I hope you feel the same about me.

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101 Great Choir Ideas

August 25, 2010

Every Wednesday is tip day. Each week’s tip may be about a different topic, but one of the recurring topics is 101 Great Choir Ideas. Here’s this week’s tip.

Design an enticing, snazzy new recruitment program for the choir cabinet or director to use this fall.

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10 Important Things I’ve Learned from 40+ Years of Directing Choirs

August 23, 2010

Every month I write an article for Monday Morning Email (which you should subscribe to if you are reading this and you are a church musician…). The latest one concerns some important things I’ve learned from being a choir director. You can get all the details here, but here are the 10 things:
They should sing [...]

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Rehearsals are Not Practice: 5 Steps to the Real Thing - Step 5

August 20, 2010

We’re looking at all 5 steps over a couple of weeks. Step 1 was an overview, step 2 was about fundamentals, step 3 was about tactics, step 4 was about monthly plans, and step 5, today, is about a review cycle.
Here’s the premise: In any musical ensemble, the real work is done during rehearsal. [...]

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101 Great Choir Ideas

August 18, 2010

Every Wednesday is tip day. Each week’s tip may be about a different topic, but one of the recurring topics is 101 Great Choir Ideas. Here’s this week’s tip.

Resolve that your MO during the coming year will be to arrive for choir five minutes earlier.

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Rehearsals are Not Practice: 5 Steps to the Real Thing - Step 4

August 17, 2010

We’re looking at all 5 steps over a couple of weeks. Step 1 was an overview, step 2 was about fundamentals, step 3 was about tactics, step 4, today, is about monthly plans, and step 5 will be about a review cycle.
Here’s the premise: In any musical ensemble, the real work is done during rehearsal. [...]

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Rehearsals are not Practice: 5 Steps to the Real Thing - Step 3

August 13, 2010

We’re in the process here, looking at all 5 steps over the next couple of weeks. Step 1 was an overview, step 2 was about fundamentals, step 3, today, is about tactics, step 4 will be about monthly plans, and step 5 will be about a review cycle.
Here’s the premise: In any musical ensemble, the [...]

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101 Great Choir Ideas

August 11, 2010

Every Wednesday is tip day. Each week’s tip may be about a different topic, but one of the recurring topics is 101 Great Choir Ideas. Here’s this week’s tip.

Donate an electric pencil sharpener to the choir, and park it by the folder storage area in the choir room.

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Rehearsals are Not Practice: 5 Steps to the Real Thing - Step 2

August 10, 2010

We’re in the process here, looking at all 5 steps over the next couple of weeks. Step 1 was an overview, step 2, today, is about fundamentals, step 3 will be about tactics, step 4 will be about monthly plans, and step 5 will be about a review cycle.
Here’s the premise: In any musical ensemble, [...]

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