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Guidelines for Choral Conducting</h1> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div data-component-width="site" data-component-alignment="left" data-component-variation="default" class="text-field"> <div class="text-field__inner"> <div class="text"> General Policies: <ul> <li>All recitals must take place before the last day of YSM classes</li> <li>Over the course of your time at Yale, you are expected to conduct music from a variety of time periods, styles, and genres, both sacred and secular</li> <li>All first-year repertoire choices must be approved by your conducting teacher. The majority of your repertoire should come from the choral libraries available to you. All second-year programs must be approved by Jeff Douma. See departmental guidelines, which are sent to you in the spring term of your first year, for more specific policies.</li> <li>Students must wait until membership of the Camerata, Glee Club, and Schola Cantorum have been finalized before approaching singers about any other choruses. Do not poach singers from faculty-led ensembles!</li> <li>For additional recital policies consult the YSM Student Handbook 2022-23, which can be downloaded from the Student Resources tab of ArtsVision anytime throughout the year.</li> </ul> First-Year MM Recitals (Required Recital): First-year choral conducting students direct the Repertory Chorus, which sings one recital each term. Scheduling: <ul> <li>Repertory Chorus recitals are held on a Monday in November and a Monday in April, both at 5</li> </ul> p.m. in Battell or Marquand Chapel <ul> <li>Rehearsals are held on Mondays, 4:05-6:05 pm, in the Glee Club Room</li> </ul> Planning-First-year conductors, in consultation with your teachers, are responsible for all aspects of planning and managing the Repertory Chorus, including <ul> <li>auditioning and inviting singers</li> <li>requesting and obtaining music from the ISM choral library</li> <li>planning rehearsals</li> <li>hiring instrumentalists (apart from the accompanist)</li> <li>confirming booking of rehearsal venues</li> <li>preparing program content</li> </ul> Repertoire: <ul> <li>For the fall-term recital: <ul> <li>c. 15 minutes of repertoire per conductor, totaling an hour</li> <li>mostly a cappella, but the chapel organ or piano may be used</li> </ul> </li> <li>For the spring-term recital: <ul> <li>one larger work with chamber-sized instrumental accompaniment, c. 15 minutes per conductor, totaling an hour</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Budget: <ul> <li>Each semester, there is a budget for up to 24 paid singers for 12 rehearsals and the performance: <ul> <li>4 section leaders, paid $18/hour</li> <li>20 chorus singers, paid $14/hour</li> <li>1 accompanist, paid $25/hour</li> </ul> </li> <li>For the second term only, there is a total budget of $1,000 for instrumentalists <ul> <li>Instrumentalists are paid $25/hour</li> </ul> </li> <li>The Payroll Assistant is responsible for making sure that all instrumentalists and singers are paid correctly and on time</li> </ul> Programs: <ul> <li>Jeff Douma must approve your program information before you submit it to the Concert Production Office</li> <li>At least 4 weeks before the recital, submit print-ready program information to the Concert Production Coordinator (<a href="mailto:rachel.segger@yale.edu">rachel.segger@yale.edu</a>)</li> <li>Program submissions should be in Microsoft Word; texts and translations can be in Word (tabbed) or Excel</li> <li>Program information must include <ul> <li>titles of works</li> <li>full names of composers and their birth and death dates</li> <li>program notes</li> <li>texts and translations</li> <li>roster of performers</li> <li>biographical blurbs about yourself and any soloists</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Second-Year MM Recitals (Degree Recitals): Second-year choral conducting students direct the Recital Chorus. Scheduling: <ul> <li>Recitals are typically held in October, December, February, March and April, beginning at either 5 or 7 p.m. in Battell or Marquand Chapel</li> <li>Rehearsals are held on Thursdays, 4:05-6:05 pm</li> <li>Jeff Douma confirms recital dates at the end the of the spring semester of your first year</li> </ul> Planning: <ul> <li>During the spring term of your first year, you will receive departmental guidelines for degree recitals</li> <li>By June 30 after your first year, submit to Jeff Douma: <ul> <li>a complete orchestration list</li> <li>a preliminary budget</li> <li>notification of ISM instruments you wish to have moved and/or tuned</li> </ul> </li> <li>As soon as Jeff Douma has approved your orchestration list, preliminary budget, and list of instruments, submit these to the ISM Concert Production Office</li> <li>In September of your second year, submit your recital contract to the YSM Concert Office</li> <li>Each second-year student is expected to manage one of their peers’ recitals</li> <li>It is your responsibility to organize a front of house team to handle venue logistics</li> <li>By 3 weeks prior to the recital, meet with the Concert Production Assistant (<a href="mailto:aric.isaacs@yale.edu">aric.isaacs@yale.edu</a>) to confirm equipment and logistical needs and to plan the run of show, including <ul> <li>green-lighting (unlocking) of venue doors</li> <li>hiring of door monitors</li> <li>moving Marquand chairs (you are responsible for finding volunteers)</li> <li>engaging ushers (you are responsible for finding volunteers)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Repertoire: <ul> <li>Recitals should contain no more than one hour of music</li> <li>Repertoire must be approved by Jeff Douma before it is submitted to the ISM Concert Production Office</li> <li>By June 30 after your first year, submit your repertoire to Jeff Douma and to the ISM Concert Production Office for music ordering, including <ul> <li>full composer names</li> <li>titles of works</li> <li>publishers of piano/vocal scores and/or choral parts (with ISBN and cost)</li> <li>instrumentation</li> <li>publishers of orchestral parts (with reference numbers and cost)</li> <li>Do NOT merely send a link to the publisher’s website</li> <li>Do NOT order any music yourself, other than your conducting score</li> </ul> </li> <li>You are responsible for purchasing your own full scores with your own funds</li> </ul> Budget: <ul> <li>When you submit your repertoire to Jeff Douma, also submit a preliminary budget</li> <li>At least 2 weeks before your first rehearsal, submit a final budget using the template in this resource guide</li> <li>Each conductor is responsible for hiring members of the chorus and orchestra</li> <li>The budget includes a maximum of: <ul> <li>24 paid singers for 12 hours of rehearsal, 3 hours of dress rehearsal, and 3 hours of performance <ul> <li>4 section leaders, paid $20/hour</li> <li>20 chorus singers, paid $15.75/hour</li> <li>1 accompanist, paid $25/hour</li> </ul> </li> <li>$1,500 for each recital for instrumentalists <ul> <li>Instrumentalists are paid $25/hour</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> Programs: <ul> <li>At least one month before your recital, submit program information to the YSM Concert Office</li> <li>Program information includes <ul> <li>list of works, in concert order, with movements listed if applicable</li> <li>composers’ names and dates</li> <li>names of soloists, in the appropriate places on the page</li> </ul> </li> <li>At least one month before your recital, submit a separate document to the YSM Concert Office containing camera-ready <ul> <li>program notes</li> <li>texts and translations</li> <li>roster of performers</li> <li>biographical blurbs about yourself and any soloists</li> </ul> </li> </ul> The office will photocopy the document and insert it into the program <ul> <li>If these program deadlines are not met, you are responsible for printing the materials at your own cost</li> </ul> Degree Recital Recordings: <ul> <li>There is no native recording equipment in Marquand or Battell Chapels. 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