by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General, Teacher Trainer Corner
by Peter Amidon Dear Singing Friends, I have joined the ranks what I am sure must be thousands of church choir directors creating virtual choir movies for weekly virtual church services. It is always surprising and moving to listen to the range of individual...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General, Teacher Trainer Corner
by Chris Powers Past FAME Vice-President and Teacher Trainer Chris Anne Powers shares her new layout of the scope and sequence of CS over a several years period. John Feierabend shared this with his Conversational Solfege certification courses this summer and...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General, Teacher Trainer Corner
by Leslie Weaver FAME teacher trainer Leslie Weaver demonstrates her technique to teach students whose turn it is to sing when learning a call and response song. Check out the video: … Sorry, this content is for FAME Lifetime Member, FAME Member, and...
by Tom Hawley | Sep 27, 2020 | Articles, FS-General, Teacher Trainer Corner
by Miriam Capellan (she/her) mgephardt@gmail.com Fanny Mendelssohn, Romantic composer and sister to Felix wrote her own wedding music, staying up past midnight to finish the night before her big day. Why? Felix had promised to write the music but unexpectedly fell out...
by feierabendmusic | Sep 27, 2020 | Teacher Trainer Corner
I Have to Ask the Reason Why John Crever Music and songs in particular, have been part of our voting culture since the start of the nation, and for as long as politics have been recounted, music was always a part of the process. Whether it be an upbeat...
by feierabendmusic | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles, CS-Instrumental, Teacher Trainer Corner
FAME Member Carol Swinchoski cswinchoski@wall.k12.nj.us The concept of the Singing Band takes on a whole new meaning in the wake of Covid-19. I expect to hear: Do you mean you are not only going to risk your health playing wind instruments, but you are going to...
