Criteria for Choral Program Building

Abstract

director in the preparation of a public concert program. For simplicity, these problems may be divided into external and internal. Among the external problems are the selection of personnel, building the choral organization, rehearsal techniques, purposes of the concert as it affects the over-all situation, number of rehearsal periods each week, physical facilities, budget, type of high school or college, auditorium facilities used in public performance, acoustics, concert dress of the performers, printed program, and other eye stimuli which might affect the performance. The finest choral literature, for example, will suffer in public performance if the performing group exhibits bad vocal technique such as singing with faulty diction or bad intonation. These external considerations are