Over the weekend I had the immense pleasure of teaching a class called “The Aging Voice in the Church Choir” at the SC Baptist Convention’s Worship Summit at White Oak conference center in Winnsboro, SC. This valuable conference gives church worship staff members the opportunity to take classes which will benefit them directly in church ministries. These classes ranged from how to use a sound board to Introduction to Finale music writing software to modulation on the organ to keeping control of a children’s choir.
The class I taught focused on the challenges faced by the leader of a choir which contains a significant number of aging voices. So often, worship leaders “give up” on aging voices and either write them off as unimportant and irrelevant in the wider church music ministry or simply resign themselves to the status quo, never hoping for any improvement in the basic vocal instruments at hand. Of course, neither of these scenarios is appropriate or accurate. While the aging voice does face important challenges, there are specific and practical techniques which a choir leader can employ to significantly improve the performance outcome.
Above is a copy of the presentation I gave which I include for the purposes of sharing with those who attended as well as with those who did not. Please note, the above is simply the slideshow that I presented along with the lecture. There is no sound. As always, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
