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Building Community

Building Community . In the Choral Setting. Sarah Mae Lagasca, CP III. What does this sound like?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E587a9Jfr1s&feature= related (audio, no video) How does the choir sound? What is causing this sound? What can be done to improve it?.

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Building Community

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  1. Building Community In the Choral Setting Sarah Mae Lagasca, CP III

  2. What does this sound like? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E587a9Jfr1s&feature=related (audio, no video) • How does the choir sound? • What is causing this sound? • What can be done to improve it?

  3. What does this sound like? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRGHaXpMRNQ&feature=related (audio only) • How does the choir sound? • What is causing this sound? • What can be done to improve it?

  4. Leadership in a Community • Choristers like ourselves are quick to blame conductors for choral problems • In the same way, communities tend to blame their leaders when things go wrong. • “There is a retributive search for responsibility and a corresponding defense from the players claiming their innocence. Fault marketing rests on the belief that if we can assign blame and find cause, it is useful to society and somehow reassures us that it won’t happen again.” –Block • Who is at fault when a choral rehearsal/concert goes wrong? The conductor or the singers in the choir?

  5. Leader vs. Follower • “When we are dissatisfied with a leader, we simply try harder to find a new one.” – Block • Balance must exist between the power of the leader and the power in the hands of the citizens/community they lead • “We must discover what we can create together.” • Does this balance exist in the choral classroom?If so, is it effective?

  6. Accountability • “The reason the retributive context cannot improve the conditions it tries to heal is that it talks a lot about accountability but does not embody it.” • “The context of retribution itself is actually an ongoing argument against accountability.” • “The marketing of fear and fault and the love of leadership have in common the belief that something or someone else is the problem and that the someone else needs to do something different before anything can profoundly get better.” • Communities must look within themselves for answers and solutions. They should not look for scapegoats; it never solves the problem at hand. • Is it easy to ask a choir to be accountable for their mistakes? What is the likely result of asking a choir to be accountable? • How does a choir “get better” through accountability?

  7. Almighty Discussion Slide • “Powerful questions give us the means to initiate a community where accountability and commitment are ingrained.” –Block • How much “power” should be given to the choir in the choral classroom setting? • How was community built in your choral experience? How was community destroyed?

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