Vocal-Symphonic Composition in Choir Workshops

Abstract

International choir festivals are workshops during which choir members from various choirs form a new choir over a short period of time in order to prepare a concert. Forming a homogenous choir ensemble and learning a music piece under the baton of a conductor are all the more difficult in the case of preparing a vocal-symphonic work. Under these circumstances, the art of communication involves the presence of some complex skills in the personality of the conductor: musical, pedagogical, psychological, and managerial. Before embarking on such a challenging project, the conductor must know the score in detail, must predict the difficulties of study, and have sufficient experience in social communication in order to find quick and efficient solutions to all possible problems that might appear during the study period. Before beginning the study of the music score, it is necessary to cover the following stages: anticipated analysis of the musical resources of the choir, finding difficulties in the score, applying efficient study methodologies, organizing the rehearsal with the orchestra, and finally performing the concert.