Planning for a New School Year

School supplies are on HUGE sale right now, which must mean school's a-coming!

I am getting ready to go to a choral workshop where I will get to sing all of the new releases from the Hal Leonard catalog, and I am so excited to think about the students who will be singing with my chorus this year!

At the end of the year, I had an interest meeting for kids, and over 150 showed up, which won't ALL end up in the chorus (which is too bad, in my opinion), but still, that's fun to think about! Chorus is truly where there is a place for everyone, whether you are a great singer or not. As long as you are willing to work when you're there, I say the more the merrier!

The only thing set in stone right now is that I will have a winter concert in December and a competition in January....but with my due date (if all continues to go well) being March 3, I will have some serious planning to do to figure out how I am going to manage maternity leave and my spring concert.

Certainly will make things interesting,that's for sure!

Professional Development

This summer, after taking two summers off, I am attending a choral reading session sponsored by Hal Leonard and J.W. Pepper. Of course, these are completely selfishly promotional in that they want you to buy one of everything (and who has the money for THAT?!), but often, also they are the best chance to find a gem or two in all of the fools' gold that is released each year by the publisher.

As a special treat, I am going to the choreography session starring the one and only John Jacobson, the "happy guy" who used to work for Disney and is featured in Spotlight on Music. I don't do much with choreography, and am considering adding this into my chorus experience this year.