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Monday, July 2 Workshops
Choral Reading Session
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: Ballroom 204
Capacity: 300
Presenter(s): Augsburg Fortress
Creating, Growing, and Managing a Chapter Endowment Fund
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: Room 208
Capacity: 125
Presenter(s): Bobby Mays
This workshop will cover the essentials of setting up and growing a chapter endowment fund.
Inspired Service Playing: Lead-Ins and Links
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: East Exhibit Hall
Capacity: 500
Presenter(s): Joyce Shupe Kull
Workshop participants will acquire easy to intermediate level improvisational tools for service playing, focusing on introductory material for singing (lead-ins), as well as interludes and transitions to the next hymn, sung response, or service mood (links).
Pierre Attaingnant: The Royal Printer and Organ Masses of 1531 - A New Edition
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Music City Ballroom
Capacity: 300
Presenter(s): Scott Hyslop
Using the newly released Wayne Leupold edition of the Organ Masses, Scott Hyslop will discuss the history of Pierre Attaingnant in his time and place.
Stepping Stones to Improvisation
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Fisk 1 & 2
Capacity: 275
Presenter(s): Denise Lanning
A step-by-step approach to developing creative musical ideas, useful for worship or concert, will be explored. This workshop will demonstrate that material that can be easily and quickly grasped by teachers, as well as students, is readily available.
Transposition: Approachable Techniques for a Vital Skill
Workshop at 8:30 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: 209-210
Capacity: 200
Presenter(s): David Enlow
Approaches will include transposition by interval, transposition by clef, and practical applications of transposition to the organist's everyday work.
Choral Reading Session
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: Ballroom 204
Capacity: 300
Presenter(s): Concordia Publishing House
Francis Hopkinson: A "Revolutionary" Organist
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Belmont 2 & 3
Capacity: 180
Presenter(s): Joseph Butler
This presentation will examine Hopkinson’s colorful life as well as the music and organs he played.
Getting Off on the Right (and Left!) Foot: The First Lesson
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: 209-210
Capacity: 200
Presenter(s): David Heller
This workshop will begin with a demonstration of starting a beginning organ student using a person who, having never played the organ before, will experience a “first lesson.”
Historical Performance Practice: Baroque and Classical Eras
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Fisk 1 & 2
Capacity: 275
Presenter(s): Jon Laukvik
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce organists in America to the two first parts of my Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing (Part 3 on the Modern Era will be published in German in 2012).
If Ye Love Tallis, Try These! Renaissance Motets for the Smaller Church Choir
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Music City Ballroom
Capacity: 356
Presenter(s): Jane Scharding Smedley
This session will offer works suitable for 12 – 16 singers. Suggestions will be given for efficient use of rehearsal time, programming in the Church calendar (especially for traditions following the three-year Lectionary), and factors to consider when choosing musical editions.
Planning for a Successful Concert at Your Church
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Belmont 1
Capacity: 90
Presenter(s): Stephen Z. Cook
This workshop will feature helpful suggestions gleaned from presenters and performers on a variety of subjects such as planning strategies, expense considerations, concert procedures, and audience development.
Robert Schumann's Six Fugues on B-A-C-H, Op 60: Inner Workings, Inner World
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: Room 208
Capacity: 125
Presenter(s): Jayne Latva
We will explore how Schumann both absorbed and transformed conventions of fugue writing into his own intensely personal musical aesthetic.
The Transcriptive Organist: Accompanying from Orchestral and Piano Reductions
Workshop at 9:45 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: East Exhibit Hall
Capacity: 500
Presenter(s): Todd Wilson
This workshop will offer practical help in accompanying from orchestral scores and from piano scores.
Adapting Conducting Gestures for Music from All Periods
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Fisk 1 & 2
Capacity: 275
Presenter(s): John Warren
This workshop will consider representative works from each period, and appropriate conducting gestures to reflect the differences.
Choral Reading Session
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: Ballroom 204
Capacity: 300
Presenter(s): E. C. Schirmer Music Co.
Choristers Guild - Not Just for Children Anymore
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Music City Ballroom
Capacity: 356
Presenter(s): Randall Engle
This workshop introduces CG anthems suitable for adult choirs. Further, this workshop will share ideas for using CG literature in creative ways in worship.
Handbell Repertoire and Rehearsal Techniques for Intermediate-Level Ringing
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Ryman 1 & 2
Capacity: 36
Presenter(s): Gayle Sullivan
This workshop will demonstrate rehearsal techniques and strategies that will help progress ringers to a new level of ringing.
New Organ Music by Chinese, Japanese and Korean Composers
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: East Exhibit Hall
Capacity: 500
Presenter(s): Calvert Johnson
This workshop will provide an overview of the breadth of styles available, including works based on hymns and folk tunes, and concert works using late 20th century approaches, such as serial techniques, graphic notation and aleatoric performance, atonal, post-modern, and neo-Romanticism.
Performing Baroque Sacred Music: Ensemble Issues from Monteverdi to Handel
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: 206
Capacity: 400
Presenter(s): Matthew Dirst
This workshop mines recent research for solutions to the most commonly encountered problems in the performance of this music.
Repertoire for the Beginning Organist
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Nashville Convention Center
Room: 209-210
Capacity: 200
Presenter(s): David Heller
This workshop will be a survey of selected organ repertoire from a wide spectrum of historical styles for beginning organ students
Webinars and Websites: Taking Your Chapter (Kicking and Screaming) into the Digital Age
Workshop at 11:00 AMLocation: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Room: Belmont 2 & 3
Capacity: 180
Presenter(s): Mary Stutz
This workshop will offer practical tips and advice for using electronic means to communicate with your chapter members.
