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SKU: GI.G-007186
English.
Lee Gwozdz brings a lifetime of singing in choirs to his wildly successful choral programs at Corpus Christi Cathedral in Corpus Christi, Texas. Now Lee shares those winning techniques in a remarkable new choral training program. Singing FUNdamentals‚Ñà ‚¢ combines concepts, techniques, and toys in a way that makes singing a joy. Lee's Singing FUNdamentals Toy Box and related videos and DVDs have received rave reviews from vocal experts and users alike: ‚I started a children's choir last fall and began right off using Lee Gwozdz's toy box. I was amazed at the result. Believe it or not, the punching dinosaur even worked with the adult choir. Thanks to WLP for that box of magic!‚ -- Charles Thatcher, composer and music director, Orlando, FL The Toy Box includes a dozen toys that provide visual imagery for good choral singing, making concepts like posture and phrasing concrete for young singers. Great for high school and adult choirs as well! The toys are packaged in a sturdy reusable toy box for easy storage and long-term use. The Toy Handbook, included in the Toybox, demonstrates how to use toys like the punching puppet or the Mr. Pooch‚ tennis ball effectively to illustrate choral concepts. Musical exercises are included. A treasure for professionals and amateurs alike — anyone who works with children‚ and adult choirs and wants to teach the basics of good choral sound.
SKU: PE.EP72785A
ISBN 9790577011349. 210 x 297mm inches. English.
From the composer:
How did it all begin? And what happened next?
I found myself pondering these questions in an art gallery in Bremen, in a James Turrell installation that carved through three storeys of the gallery. Looking down from the top floor through great circles of colour-changing light to the distant sparkling points in a dark ellipse on the ground floor, I felt that I was looking back in time to the origins of the universe – and I started to hear children’s voices in my mind’s ear, accompanied by twinkling metal percussion.
It occurred to me that the beginning of our world was a good story to be sung by children, especially the unique Hallé Children’s Choir, and accompanied by the magnificent Hallé Orchestra.
Haydn&rs quo;s Creation&n bsp;immediately comes to mind as a precedent, but that is a setting and elaboration of the Book of Genesis. I thought we should tell the modern version of our story, and be as scientifically accurate as possible.
That&rsqu o;s easier said than done! For a start, it’s hard to find a modern account of creation that is anything like as compact as the one in Genesis. I talked about it with my regular collaborator, Alasdair Middleton. Neither of us could remember being taught anything about the Big Bang or Evolution at school, although I had certainly spent many happy hours making papier-mâché dinosaurs. So the first thing we had to do was a lot of research – reading books for grown-ups, books for children, looking at charts and diagrams and watching films. There was a wonderful moment, reading Adam Rutherford’s < em>The Origin of Life, when I had the glorious feeling I understood everything – but that quickly evaporated as soon as I put the book down.
Scientific ideas seem to date very quickly, so this account of the beginning of our world is necessarily provisional. It&rs.
