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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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The Importance of Early Music in Choral Conducting

"It's much easier for a choral conductor to control a sound by saying, okay, you all sing lighter," he says. "We don't really have any instruction on what integrating singing on the breath that we might sound ... can do." He adds: "Once one hears what countertenders sound like on the top of a vocal line, then, you know, one can sort of coach that full-bodied sound a little bit better"

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