Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been called "devastatingly beautiful" (The Washington Post) and praised for its "soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies deployed with finesse" (The New York Times). Trumbore's compositions have been performed by the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW ensemble, Conspirare and the Miró Quartet, soprano Liv Redpath, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Modesto Symphony, and Pasadena Symphony. She has written extensively about working through creative blocks and establishing a career in music in essays and in her first book, Staying Composed. Learn more about Trumbore’s music and writing at daletrumbore.com.

In this episode, we talk about collaboration and advocacy related to composers, writers, and more! 

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tKVY7X-sxVs 

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

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Ever wonder what the singers think after their FIRST international choir tour? Yea - me too! And in May, I got to go on tour as the “artistic advisor” with Clemson University Singers, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Bernarducci, as they traveled to London, Cambridge, Canterbury, Rouen, and Paris with Perform International. 

In this episode, you’ll hear from singers of all backgrounds - performing arts, engineering, history, and more! - as they answer their most memorable tour moments. We recorded this while waiting in line to go up the Eiffel Tower on their last full day in Paris before heading back to the States. 

We hope this episode inspires you to explore - explore new music, explore new places, or even just explore more ways to infuse your singer’s thoughts, cares, and interests into your choral communities. 

Learn more about Clemson Choirs Here: https://www.clemson.edu/caah/academics/performing-arts/perform/choir.html

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

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Kicking off summer with an audiobook sample from "The Business of Choir." Setting up the stage to tell your story and giving you ideas after we just left the Chorus America Conference super inspired. Check out more at BusinessofChoir.com.

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

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The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

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Transferable lessons from the Jiu-Jitsu mat?! Yes, please!

Meet Dr. Jeff Wall, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK but also an avid practicer of jiu-jitsu. In this conversation, we connect the dots on what we can apply from the mat to the choral/singing space. You’re going to love this! 

Connect with Dr. Wall: 

www.jefferywall.com 

www.voxsolaris.net 

www.nsuokchoirs.com 

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LcpkPKNwkRM 

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

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In this month’s ACDA Advocacy and Collaboration Curated Episode you get to meet a fellow ACDA Standing Committee Chair, Dr. Joshua Habermann. Habermann chairs the International Activities Committee and in this conversation we explore what they do and why or how you can participate - but we also talk about Dr. Habermann’s work in the professional chamber choir world with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale as well as thoughts on work-life balance and choices that all conductors face. This episode has a little bit of everything - including vulnerability - and we can’t wait for you to give it a listen to see what collaborations or advocacy moments it inspires! 

Find out more about the ACDA International Activities Standing Committee: 

https://desertchorale.org/about/our-people/ 

https://acda.org/resources/icep 

Listen to this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XbZcflYHnMQ 

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

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Where are my “avid consumers of music?” This episode is for you! It’s also for those that love rock and roll, want to learn more about the roots of the genre, are thinking of starting a band, learning a new instrument, or figuring out ideas for marketing your musical thing…yes, we cover a lot in this episode!

Meet Roberta and Syd, members/creators of the rock and roll band, The Record Players NYC. In this conversation, we talk about how they got into music, how their band started, and what we can all learn as they explore writing new songs and expanding their band’s reach. It was a blast to capture their story and I can’t wait for you to meet them! 

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aywUTgC49bY 

Subscribe and listen to The Record Players NYC on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@therecordplayersnyc/featured or follow them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheRecordPlayersNYC/. 

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

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Meet Kerry Fergus, a classically trained vocalist with a master's in acting who also blogs and has a passion for helping folks - especially new music readers - find the hidden gems in scores through the power of score study! 

In this conversation, we explore 5 starting points for score study, no matter how much or little music reading skills, we look at how exploring these elements can help you interpret, understand, and ultimately enjoy the music - all you need is a set of ears and a score to look at - it’s that easy, and Kerry will explain how! 

This episode is geared toward Musical Theater, but the applications to choir, band, and general music are incredible - can’t wait to hear what you think! 

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w2CLvdmJCVI

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

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Let’s apply Project Management skills and “how to start an organization” experiences in one fun, business brainstorming podcast session! 

In this episode, you’ll hear from RISE Chorales’ Director of Operations, Cuffy Sullivan. Cuffy is an expert organizer, has founded multiple choral organizations, and is really great at thinking of the administrative things that help artsy people stay organized and creative. 

Listen to this episode to hear suggestions for starting your own organization or to hear the new model RISE is implementing moving forward and why. I’ve been so excited for you to meet Cuffy - can’t wait to release this one!

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

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Let’s make some transfers! What can choir and music folks learn from the entrepreneur world? This episode is a replay from the Illuminate Podcast, a non-music pod that Dr. Burch hosts and teased out in last week’s episode 154. 

In this episode, you get to hear the story of entrepreneur, business coach, and film producer, Kewaan Drayton. He shares his story about building his dreams and how you can make it happen too! 

Listen to this episode if you’re looking for some entrepreneurial inspiration, ideas to get started, or simply want to hear a great story from an authentic soul with actionable ideas!

Links from the episode: 

Kewaan Drayton

SCORE.org

“The Black, The White, and The Grey” by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano

Deion Sanders

Citizens Advocacy Group

Follow The Illuminate Podcast:

Illuminate Podcast on Instagram

Illuminate Podcast on Twitter

Illuminate Podcast on Facebook

Patreon.com/TheIlluminatePod 

Follow Sandyboy Productions:

Sandyboy Productions on Twitter

Sandyboy Productions on Instagram

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

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Planning a Summer Choral Camp? Thinking of hosting a Choir Recruitment Workshop? Looking for some fun engagers or warm-ups to spice up the end of the school year or season?  This episode is for you! After getting a listener question for “my fav choir stuff for summer camp” and after teaching a MUED methods class on “classroom management,” I figured, this is the perfect time to create a solo episode. 

This episode shares my “formula” and some of my favorite ideas. It starts with “What do I want the student to learn?” and “How can we get to there together?” I then break it down into:  

Below are some of my trade and true favorite hooks, transfers, practices, and application routines - borrow them, adapt them, change them, do whatever you need to connect with YOUR singers, YOUR purpose, and YOUR musical image - then let me know how it goes! Have fun! 

Songs features in this episode: 

Closer - Chainsmokers ft Halsey

Hold My Hand - Jess Glenn

Bim Bom (little body percussion warm-up song)

Like I’m Gonna Lose You - Meghan Trainor

Swedish Counting Song (with optional snaps, claps, and stand/sit)

The Decades Blast: 

Headvoice - stole this from Arreon Harley Emerson - Kirk Franklin, Revolution

And scooping up to it - Drop it Like its Hot - Snoop

Eh vowel - Staying alive - Bee Gees

Ah and Oh - September - Earth Wind and Fire

Oo and oh and Ah - Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Uh and Ah - Tom’s Diner - Suzane Vega

Other quick teaching vocal tech options:

He Has Done Marvelous Things - Maria Ellis! 

Fine by Me

Color (both Evan Powers) 

Some of my fav “teach in a day songs” - in no order, just as I thought of them:  

ROUNDS: 

Umoja - Zanaida Robles

Hebrew Melody

Be Like a Bird - Abbie Betinis

Yonder Come Day

Freedom is Calling 

Asante Sana

Ipharadisi

This Pretty Planet

Alleluia Round

OCTAVOS: 

I Believe - Mark Miller

More Love - Mark Miller

Two African Pieces - arr Andrea Ramsey

Three Things - Ryan Main

Two Shaker Canons - Ron Jeffers

Feel Good - arr. Baker

Storm is Passing Over - arr. Baker

Music of Life - B E Boykin

Ubi Caritas - Victor Johnson

Turn the World Around - arr. Mark Hayes

Dream Keeper - Rollo Dillworth 

I Started Out Singing - Jocelyn Hagen

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/E-_rBi6wj8k 

The Music (ed) Matters Podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Perform International. Thinking of going on tour domestically or abroad, want to take a solo tour, or team up with a dynamic festival? PI offers the best educationally sound and culturally significant experiences! Check them out, and tell them Emmy sent you :) Perform-International.com  

Order your copy of “The Business of Choir”: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-business-of-choir-book-g10713 or check out the website, businessofchoir.com. 

Join us over at Patreon.com/MusicEdMatters for monthly meet-ups, monthly bonus episodes, special content, and more!

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