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Linda Poetschke is retired voice professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Linda stays active as a teacher and coach, regularly teaching voice to outstanding high school students. In today's episode, Linda and Randy discuss the adolescent voice and how to make the most of teaching teenage and college-age singers. Numerous practical applications will be provided in today's delightful conversation.

YouthCUE alumnus Matt Allen shares a story about the piano he played as a young piano student. In the true and colorful narrative, titled "In Praise of Wurlitzers," Matt describes how imperfect situations and second place wins provide us powerful opportunities to become more empathetic, caring people. Using what we have, we can make an enormous contribution to those younger around us. This episode is read by Robert Sterling.

Dr. George Mason and Randy continue their conversation about faith communities and church culture in 2021. It is important to realize that culture is not only found "out there" in secular society; the churches and communities of faith we serve also have our own cultures and sets of "rules." It is essential that we continually examine our church cultures to see if we are, indeed, reflecting the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.

Randy continues his series on Beauty with encouragement for choral directors to let our lights shine for our singers. Too often, we are deeply entrenched behind our thick boundaries and fail to be at our best when reflecting our joy in the choral music we create together. Today's episode will suggest practical ways to become more expressive and effective.

Dr. David Stephenson is the Choral Director at Lexington High School in Lexington, SC. In today's interview, Randy and David discuss what it takes to keep a vibrant high school program going through the ups and downs of community uncertainty. Serving in public schools, David has a deep sense of call to the students he serves. Today, David shares with us his commitment to choral excellence and being a role model for the young singers under his care.

In this episode, Randy continues his series on beauty and how it relates to our choral teaching. Crucial to our success as directors is our own personal response to beauty. Our students long to see us as seekers and lovers of beauty in the pursuit of choral excellence.

Mary Hoffman is Director of Music at the Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. Today, Randy and Mary discuss the place of difficult dialogues within the community of faith. We'll take a look at ways to begin those difficult conversations and to remain people of grace as we work through controversial issues.

In this episode, Randy begins a three-week series on beauty. Listen in and develop a greater appreciation of the beauty at hand all around us, along with new insights as to how to impact our student choirs with that beauty!

Randy interviews Dr. Michelle Roueché about the challenges of working with choral groups in unstable times. From Michelle's perspective in higher education, we can all learn more about how to relate to our students and minister powerfully to them through uncertain times.

In this inaugural CUEcast Axiom Episode, Randy Edwards speaks about the worldwide need for strong leadership. Whether on the world stage, in our nation, communities, churches, or student choirs, there seems to be a dearth of strong leadership to help us through our current challenges. Randy encourages all of us to make new commitments to become strong leaders in the hurting world around us.