A Matter of Choice: Interpreting Choral Music

"A game changer" according to LikesAmazonStuff. Bill Dehning describes this book as one that would probably only appeal for a niche audience, and indeed, if you have ever sung for him in his choirs or experienced any of his performances, you will at minimum will want to know how his musical brain ticks and at maximum want to know how-in-the-world-does-he-do-it?!!!! so that you, as a choir director could also approach that level of artistry. If you are a member of that audience, then you must get this book.If you are a choir director and have no prior knowled

Under Dehning’s direction, the USC Thornton Chamber Choir, won three prizes at the 1999 Gyorgi Dmitrov Choral Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, including Best Conductor and the Grand Prize. He earned his doctorate from USC with highest honors in 1971, has done post-doctoral studies in England and Germany, and has lectured at Mun

The ensemble frequently appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras, conducted by Helmuth Rilling and Esa-Pekka Salonen. They won four prizes at the 2001 Florilege Vocal in Tours, France, including a prize for Best Renaissance Performance and the Grand Prize. They also performed at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Western Division Conventions in 1996, 2000 and 2004, as well as at National Conventions in 1997, 2001 and 2005, receiving multiple standing o

Comes right down to it, you make your choices based on the evidence, pro-con lists, coin flips, planet alignment, the Book of Mormon, whatever. Artistry is a matter of choosing what to do with the materials at hand. "Dehning is part poet, part technician, part scholar" - Maurice McCullen, Stockton Record"This book is about Artistry. You can do your utmost to get more or better materials but you still have to choose what to do with them. His insights are invaluable to any choral director as they strive to bring music to life with authenticity, accuracy and artistry.William Dehning is Emeritus Professor of Choral Music, University of Southern California and the Past President and Founding Member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. There’s only one You (‘…and he’s so original and profound!’). You make them your own. He is the author of Chorus Confidential: Decoding the Secrets of the Choral Art.. And see, there is no such thing as the 100% perfect choice, is there? Choice involves risk: Marriages, jobs, cars, houses, grad schools, cereals, you name it. It is the key to Interpretation, which is what God put conductors on this planet to do."In a style somewhere between witty and pro