Festival 500 Sharing the Voices Introduction

Festival 500 Sharing the Voices

FESTIVAL 500 Sharing the Voices is a biennial international celebration of choral music that takes place in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. This non-competitive festival features choirs from many countries and sets its stage for high quality performance and sharing. Preceding the festival, The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium takes place June 28 to July 1, 2007 in partnership with Festival 500 and Memorial University of Newfoundland, engaging the academic interest of scholars around the world.

FESTIVAL 500 traditionally shines a light on the music of a particular culture and features it in a special way. In 2007 FESTIVAL 500 gives focus to the celebration of Celtic music. This special tradition is shared in each World of Music concert, and brought to life by various clinicians, conductors and performers.

FESTIVAL 500 Sharing the Voices is a non-profit organization that is governed by a Board of Directors.

FESTIVAL 500 Design and Programming Artistic Directors:

1. Ki Adams

2. Douglas Dunsmore

3. Andrea Rose

FESTIVAL 500 Staff:

1. Executive Director Peter Gardner

2. Festival Manager Paulette Campbell

3. Operations Manager Janet Miller
   jmiller@festival500.com

Adam Adler

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kristi Allik

Robert Mulder

Karen Frederickson

Queen’s University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

For thee we sing: The historical implications of Marian Anderson’s 1939 Easter concert

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky, USA

Why boys (don’t) sing

The University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada
ROUNDTABLE

The power of singing and song in music education: A Canadian context

Carol Beynon

The University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

Independent Scholar

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Andrea Rose

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Betty Anne Younker

The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

From church to concert hall: Choral music of R. Nathaniel Dett

Nathaniel Dett Chorale

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A crowd of jolly trappers: Labrador trapping songs

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada

Hearing the voices of “Singing Schools”

Massey University

Palmerston North, New Zealand

The gospel sound: Style and technique

Composer/Arranger, Conductor

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Bringing the past to the present: A history of the Brazeal Dennard Chorale

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan, USA
Songlines and star singers: Making the most of the world's voices for school children

*Patricia Shehan Campbell

The University of Washington

Seattle, Washington, USA

Teaching songs of America’s Victorian era: 1880

Hollins University

Roanoke, Virginia, USA
A short history of choral societies in nineteenth-century Newfoundland

Glenn Colton

Lakehead University

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Gordon Cox

The University of Reading

Reading, England, UK

James F. Daugherty

The University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas, USA

A rationale for world music in the choral classroom

West Virginia University

Morgan Town, West Virginia, USA

Producing gendered voices in the recording studio: A case study from the Yukon

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

If you can sing the roles of Leonor and Adalgisa, can you really sing the role of Amneris?

Independent Scholar

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Men’s ways of singing

University of Akureyri

Akureyri, Iceland

Hafralækjarskóla

University of Sheffield

Sheffield, England, UK

Hidden musicians: Songs by Cécile Chaminade, Josephine Lang and Clara Schumann

Gordon E. Smith

Queen’s University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Collaboration and singing: Tools for self discovery

Appleby College

Oakville, Ontario, Canada
The sound of angelic voices: Music for high voices in 17^th-century France

C. Jane Gosine

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

The relationship between voice part and self-selected pitch

The University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

The singer as a phenomenon of synthesis: The studio teacher as model and mentor

Central Methodist College

Fayette, Missouri, USA
Diana Allan

The University of Texas

San Antonio, Texas, USA

The pleasures and perils of ‘white’ invocations of ‘the big black woman inside’

The University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cultural influences on the development of singing to an African child: An investigation of the effects into cultural socialisation amongst various ethnics in Africa

Benon Kigozi

Makerere Univeristy

“Who are you, little i?” Representations of the lyrical gift of Imant Raminsh

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

The relationship between African American enrollment and the classroom environment in secondary choral music programs

Vicki Lind

The University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, USA

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan, USA

"So You Always Wanted to Sing": Observations and reflections from marginalized voices

Conductor and Arranger

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Factors that have shaped South African choral music

The University of South Africa

Unisa, South Africa

Japanese folksongs and children’s choir

Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus

Tokyo, Japan

The eclectic nature of Australian choral music

Queensland Youth Choir

Ferny Grove, Queensland, Australia

Vocal health in teacher training programs

Luther College

Decorah, Iowa, USA

The poetics and politics of some Newfoundland/Irish songs

Ruan O’Donnell

The University of Limerick

Limerick, Ireland

The genesis of the European musical influence in Mexico

Mississippi State University

Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Recognizing the value of two aesthetics of singing

Lousie Pascale

Lesley University

Earth chants - songs of the stars: A composer’s quest to bring together heaven and earth

Composer

Vocal music in eighteenth-century Bath from the pens of Thomas Linley Senior and Junior

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Song, inquiry and aesthetic education: The Lincoln Center Institute (LCI)
Florence Samson

The City University of New York

Queens College

Flushing, New York, USA

Caroline Schiller

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Vocal pedagogy for the choral conductor and amateur singer

New College, The University of Oxford

Oxford, England, UK
Singing lessons: A performance about the teaching and learning of singing

Katharine Smithrim

Queen’s University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Selina Thielemann

Institute of Vraja Art and Culture

Uttar Pradesh, India

Leon Thurman

Fairview Voice Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The voice as an instrument of peace and a motivating force for justice

Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir

Oakland, California, USA
Journey with my voice: From a Tapiola chorister to a vocal pedagogue
Sanna Valvanne

Conductor

Helsinki, Finland
The poetry of African American Pinkie Gordon Lane as set in Listenings and Silences

J. Michelle Vought

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois, USA

Angela Warren

Lakecrest Independent School

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Researching singing and vocal development across the lifespan: A personal case study

The University of London

London, England, UK
The use of ancient music, techniques, approaches, and aesthetics in the modern choral music context: Performance and compositional approaches to the use of unusual instrumental and vocal techniques in the modern concert setting

Gerard J. Yun

Cedar City, Utah, USA