1st Edition

Resurrecting Song A Pathway Forward for the Choral Art in the Time of Pandemics

By Wendy K. Moy Copyright 2024
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Through a collection of extensive interviews with choral conductors, educators, singers, and professional leaders, this book documents the choral music community’s journey through crisis and change during the COVID-19 pandemic and aids in its rebuilding in a new era where COVID-19 is endemic. When the pandemic emerged in early 2020, the impact on choral music was immediate and devastating, as... Read more

Interviewees
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Setting the Scene

1 Community Choirs: Loss and Hope

2 Children and Youth Choirs: Resiliency in Action

3 Collegiate Choirs: Reconceptualizing the Choral Rehearsal

4 Professional Singers: Grief and Innovation

5 Professional Choirs: Reimagining the Art

6 New Choirs: Inspired to Create

7 Choral Organizations: Resurrecting Song

Conclusion: We Sing On

Index

Biography

Wendy K. Moy is Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Artistic Director of Crouse Chorale at Syracuse University, New York, USA, and the Co-Artistic Director of Chorosynthesis Singers. www.wendymoy.com