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SE05 EP13 - Becoming a Sacrifice of Praise: Advice for Choral Directors for Pursuing Musical Excellence & Developing a Polyphonic Repertoire in Parish Choirs - with Christopher Berry

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

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How to Integrate Paid and Volunteer Positions in Your Choir

The Sistine Chapel Choir is a volunteer choir with professional musicians who are happy to sing in the choir serving as our section leaders. I've found that there can be a suspicion of having paid singers, which I find odd because hopefully no one's surprised to know that I get paid to do my job. My associate gets paid. So yes, all of those singers were paid. And, you know, this is happening throughout Europe for almost as far back as we have records of ecclesiastical singing.

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