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Voices United! KONY’s Seventeenth Annual Children’s Choral Festival WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2008 KODÁLY ORGANIZATION OF NEW YORK—SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CHILDREN'S CHORAL FESTIVAL KONY is pleased to announce that Voices United!, the Seventeenth Annual Children's Choral Festival open to treble choirs in grades 3–8, will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at The Community Church of New York, located at 40 East 35th Street in Manhattan. The Festival includes Choral, Feldenkrais, and Folk Dancing sessions for each choir to attend. The day will culminate in the Voices United! Concert, where each choir will perform 1–2 of their own selections, as well as the three Festival Selections. We are delighted that Dr. Betty Bertaux will be our Guest Conductor this year!
 
Dr. Betty Bertaux, founder/director of the Children's Chorus of Maryland, is regarded as an authority on vocal and musical development in children.  A former faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and Holy Names College in Oakland, California, she has been professionally active for over 40 years, working with music students of all ages.  Dr. Bertaux is internationally recognized and often engaged as a guest conductor and workshop clinician with children's choruses and choral conferences. Currently serving as an adjunct professor for Vander Cook College of Music in Chicago, Dr. Bertaux is also internationally established and frequently commissioned as a composer and arranger of music for treble choirs.  Her works are available via the Betty Bertaux Music Series with Boosey & Hawkes of New York and Alliance Music Publications, Houston.
 
Voices United! Applicaion
 
 
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:  
•    NEW! Free admission for Participating VU Conductors to a special Conductor Master Class             with Dr. Bertaux on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 from 6:00-8:00pm.  Details to follow.
•    Dr. Bertaux will rehearse and conduct the Festival Chorus (all choirs combined).
•    Individual choirs will work with Dr. Bertaux, who will provide oral and written commentary.
•    You will observe other choirs work with Dr. Bertaux.
•    NEW! Your choir will attend a Feldenkrais session.
•    Your choir will attend a folkdance session.
•    The day will culminate in the Voices United! Concert. Family & Friends are encouraged to attend!
 
 
ELIGIBILITY:
•    Choir members must be between the grades 3–8.
•    Choirs are responsible for their own expenses, including participation fees, lunch, and transportation.
•    Choirs are responsible for providing a 1:5 adult chaperone to student ratio.
•    Participating choirs’ conductors are responsible for purchasing and teaching all Festival Pieces.
•    Each choir should prepare 1–2 selections under 6 min. representing the very best in children’s choral repertoire.
•    Festival Pieces and individual choir selections must be sung from memory.
 
 
 
FESTIVAL PIECES:
Musica Est Dei Donum Optimi
Edited by RaoBoosey & Hawkes OC4B6449
4 pt. canon; a cappella
 
Hine Ma Tov Arr. by Bertaux
Unpublished – $0.50 per copy. Email mfranklin@cgps.org for number of copies needed and where to send copies.
2-pt., piano, finger cymbal, tambourine, drum
 
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Arr. by Emerson Hal Leonard 073999262094
2 pt., piano
 
FIRST COME, FIRST-SERVED UNTIL SPACE IS FILLED!
 
For more information, please contact: Vielka Kelly at vkweiss@gmail.com