Tips for Working with Middle School Youth Choirs
Working with a youth choir can be a fun, inspiring, rewarding, and deeply meaningful experience.
As a director, you balance the responsibilities of building community, integrating service, sharing meaning, inspiring purpose, and fostering musical development.
But how do you approach musical growth and development for adolescent voices? How is it different from working with children's voices or adult voices? What do you do when voices begin to change?
Here are a few helpful tips for working with 6th-8th grade singers:
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