2011 Multimedia Content
We are excited to offer select sessions from the Alleluia conference
online! Available in both audio and video formats, it is our hope that
these resources will be a helpful aid for conference participants
throughout the year. To make it even easier to access these resources,
we have made them available through iTunes in podcast form. To subscribe
to the podcast, click the buttons below and iTunes will automatically open. To view the videos without the help of iTunes, click on the video itself.
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Alleluia Conference 2011 - Video Sessions
- 21st Century Youth Choir: BTW, What they don't teach you anywhere - Billy Bob Dempsey - Alleluia Conference 2011
Where should they minister and how do I get them there? - 21st Century Youth Choir: GR8, Why Bother - Billy Bob Dempsey - Alleluia Conference 2011
Why Youth Choir really is a good investment of your time. - 21st Century Youth Choir: LOL, Spreading the Love - Billy Bob Dempsey - Alleluia Conference 2011
Love must be the first priority in your approach to youth choir. - All the Stops - Charles Callahan - Alleluia Conference 2011
Focusing on organ terminology, definitions and helpful registration hints. - Childrens Choir Basics - Pam Andrews - Alleluia Conference 2011
How can you get workers? How can you keep boys in your choir? How can you maintain discipline? These and more questions will be answered as well as other choir-building ideas. - Creative Offertories - Heather Sorenson - Alleluia Conference 2011
A church pianist's response to the offertory bathroom break/ text messaging session/ Sunday dinner discussion. - Do You Hear What I Hear: Part I - Anton Armstrong - Alleluia Conference 2011
A Session in which Anton Armstrong will discuss rehearsal goals and strategies which nurture our singers as healthy and artistic singers. - Do You Hear What I Hear: Part II - Anton Armstrong - Alleluia Conference 2011
Session two in which Anton Armstrong will discuss rehearsal goals and strategies which nurture our singers as healthy and artistic singers. - Hands on Activities for Children's Choir - Pam Andrews - Alleluia Conference 2011
The key to a successful children's choir experience is to provide hands-on experiences for your children. Pam will share idea after idea for hands-on worship tools to enhance worship for your children. - Hymns, Psalms & Spiritual Songs - Charles Callahan - Alleluia Conference 2011
A discussion on hymn-based repertoire. - Let's Lead and Praise and Worship - Pam Andrews - Alleluia Conference 2011
Get up and move! Join Pam as she shares with you new ideas for worship with your children. She will share ideas which reveal strong biblical messages, yet are great fun for your children. - Music Education is Fun - Pam Andrews - Alleluia Conference 2011
Come join Pam as she discusses new and innovative methods to teach music concepts to children. You will discover that anyone can read music! - Music in Worship: Creating the Right Problems, Facing the Nasty Ones - Harold Best - Alleluia Conference 2011
Music, at its base, is at once a magnificent and troublesome wonder. Its use throughout church history bears unrelenting evidence of this. Why is this good? Why does it often turn bad? How do we respond? - Patriotism and Worship: The Things that are Caesar's - Terry York - Alleluia Conference 2011
Is there any room for patriotism in Christian worship? We will use Jesus? Roman coin object lesson to begin our search for an answer. - Patriotism and Worship: The Things that are God's - Terry York - Alleluia Conference 2011
Can patriotism stop short of being idolatry when present in Christian worship? Again, Jesus? Roman coin object lesson is the basis of our inquiry. - Routine + Variety = Success: Planning and Leading a Children's Choir Reheasal, Part I - Michael Bedford - Alleluia Conference 2011
Helpful tips on planning and implementing music and resources in your children's rehearsals. I will take you through a sample rehearsal, clarifying everything involved with making it happen. - Routine + Variety = Success: Planning and Leading a Children's Choir Reheasal, Part II - Michael Bedford - Alleluia Conference 2011
Helpful tips on planning and implementing music and resources in your children's rehearsals. I will take you through a sample rehearsal, clarifying everything involved with making it happen. - So Little Time - Charles Callahan - Alleluia Conference 2011
Explore how to get the most out of your practice time. - The Challenges of the Underdeveloped Singer - Anton Armstrong - Alleluia Conference 2011
In his career, Anton Armstrong has worked with children through adults. This session will explore the challenges that have been common in all age groups for those who have difficulty in matching pitch accurately and other vocal issues. - Thou Shalt Build a Choir - Michael Bedford - Alleluia Conference 2011
Ever since Moses came down from Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments have been models for everyday life. Building on this idea, we will look at what is involved in building and maintaining active children's choirs. - Will It Be On the Test - Mary Kay Parrish - Alleluia Conference 2011
Do you have a brand new handbell choir? Has your choir reached a plateau and can't seem to get better? Or maybe you have a choir comprising of a combination of veteran and inexperienced/unskilled ringers? We'll devise and rehearse a sequence of must-have skills that all ringers need to master before they can become the choir they desire to be. - Worship Leadership: Resetting the Agenda - Harold Best - Alleluia Conference 2011
The current issues in music and worship are at least a half-century old and are now settling down into traditionalism and neo-traditionalism, which suggest an emerging standoff of a different order. It?s time to look things over, all the way from terminologies to theological principles.
Alleluia Conference 2011 - Audio Sessions
- Architecture as Frozen Music: A Contemporary Look - Harold Best - Alleluia Conference 2011
Goethe once said that architecture is frozen music. While this statement can be taken too far, it might suggest something about worship music, and its relationship to the kind and quality of space within which it takes place. (52:33) - Are Handbells Relevant in Today's Church Music - Mary Kay Parrish - Alleluia Conference 2011
Perhaps not if we don't make some changes in the ways we use bells in our worship services. Maybe playing a piece for the Prelude or Offertory is not all you can do. Let's get creative and bring some freshness, vitality, and the unexpected to our worship. (55:08) - Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice: Our Calling as Pastoral Church Musicians - Anton Armstrong - Alleluia Conference 2011
This session will examine several motivating reasons we choose to express our faith through the gift of choral music. In addition, commentary will reflect upon ways in which we may become more inspirational choral pedagogues and nurture the peole we teach as caring, compassionate and expressive people of faith. (01:00:55) - Capture Your Audience! Don't just make them listen to you! - Heather Sorenson - Alleluia Conference 2011
Although given from a pianist viewpoint, this session is full of tips for all performers on how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand. (56:20) - Chord Charts, Contemporization & Creativity - Patti Drennan - Alleluia Conference 2011
The 3 C?s for the Church Keyboardist. (55:19) - Creating Worship that Flows - Randall Bradley - Alleluia Conference 2011
Worship transitions can be artistic, thoughtful, and well intentioned. This session will offer practical suggestions to move worship from a series of disparate elements to becoming a unified whole. (25:40) - Creative approaches to grow and maintain a full-time music ministry in a part-time world - Danny Ingram - Alleluia Conference 2011
Ideas on developing and training volunteers along with the other day-to-day tasks of the music minister. Staff relations, budgets, service planning, recruiting and growing instrumentalist and how to handle and overcome setbacks will be discussed. (53:45) - Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Publicizing Your Children's Choir Event - Michael Bedford - Alleluia Conference 2011
Publicity is the key to building audiences and support for your service, concert or musical. (30:47) - Helping the Adult Untuned Singer - Randall Bradley - Alleluia Conference 2011
Most choirs have un-tuned adult singers in their ranks. How can we assist these would-be singers? This session will offer strategies based on in-the-field experiences to help them find their voices. (01:03:06) - Intersection of Hymns and Theology: God's Transcendence and Immanence - Emily Snider - Alleluia Conference 2011
Talented hymnwriters know the teaching and formative power of their hymns as theological agents. The critical singer/reader of hymns will note the viewpoint(s) of the hymns he or she sings. Interested in studying where and how hymns and theological doctrine intersect? This session provides a survey of the hymns of four preeminent and beloved twentieth-century hymnwriters: Fred Pratt Green, Fred Kaan, Timothy Dudley-Smith, and Brian Wren. The survey seeks to identify how these important hymnwriters explore the doctrine of God's transcendence and immanence in their hymns. (59:46) - It Takes Two to Tango - Mary Kay Parrish - Alleluia Conference 2011
Whose job is more vital, the director's or the ringer's? What does each owe to the other? We'll talk about how a ringer can be the best she or he can be; likewise, what is the director's responsibility in all this? (37:29) - Lights, Sound, Action! - Pam Andrews - Alleluia Conference 2011
So you want to do a children's choir musical!! Let me help you work through the formula for success and make that musical turn out to be the BEST! Let's make musicals fun!! (59:48) - Musical Localism and Musical Globalism: Toward a Single Theology - Harold Best - Alleluia Conference 2011
Globalism is certainly a better term than multiculturalism, but neither one suggests anything approaching a theological resolution to what has otherwise become a quagmire of cultural and ecclesiastical goodwill, political correctness, new forms of exclusivism, and even creative naiveté. An attempt will be made to ground and validate this issue in a theology of creation. (49:27) - Shortcuts on the Piano - Heather Sorenson - Alleluia Conference 2011
Not enough rehearsal time to learn it all? Hands are too small? No way in the world you can play THAT? Heather offers her own tips for when she has to deal with these situations. (46:54) - The Arts, Culture, and the Radical Centrality of the Church - Harold Best - Alleluia Conference 2011
It is one thing to say that the practice of church music is central to the life of the church, but quite another to say that the church is central to all music. A three-part model will be discussed that builds a case for the cultural centrality of the church within which church music is but one aspect. (56:43) - The Female Adolescent Voice - Lauren Shively - Alleluia Conference 2011
People always talk about the boy's changing voice, but what about those young girls? A girl's changing voice may not be as audibly apparent or seemingly as embarrassing, but voice change in adolescent girls is still something that educators should know more about. This session will explore the stages of voice change, introduce some relevant materials, and present how we as music educators can help ease girls through this sometimes frustrating time of change. (54:17) - The Three S's of Children's Choir - Michael Bedford - Alleluia Conference 2011
This workshop will focus on three important aspects of working with children and bringing out the best in them in every way. (58:20)
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