Enrollment in private voice lessons highly recommended. Audition may be required for certain roles. The twenty members of this highly select mixed choir perform sacred and secular concerts, and all members receive scholarships. Approval of the department chairman. Training in instrumental and vocal accompanying and in the performance of selected ensemble works.
Practical experience accompanying in studios is offered.
May be repeated up to three hours. Coordination of hand techniques, breath control, sound control, articulation, dynamics, and baton techniques. When possible, practical application in active musical organizations. Conducting patterns applied to elements of interpretation. Emphasis on score reading, rehearsal techniques, and conducting problems.