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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Bertalot has excelled himself in 'Immediately Practical Tips', the book sets out an amazing conceptualy view of every part of choral directing, and really does provide a unique and invaluable resource for Choral Directors, and those involved with Choirs, particularly in liturgical settings. Absolute genius.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I love John Bertalot's book. It's wonderful. It was exactly what I needed to get rid of my feeling of frustration that I wasn't teaching my choir as much as I should. From the first pages of "Immediately practical tips”, my enthusiasm for choir-teaching increased. I found ideas that helped the choir from our next rehearsal, and will continue helping them. Each week I have been able to use more of the tips to get our choir thinking and singing better.
The author writes the book from the view of a choir director who receives a visit from another choir director who is new to the choir-teaching field ("bird-brained Bob"). It covers a hectic, theoretical week in the life of the director and Bob. We see, from Bob's perspective, how the director handles a massive array of choir problems. The story-dialogue format works well ("That must be encouraging," said Bob. "Yes," said the director, "and there's more you can learn from this.").
This all makes for easy reading. And it would be hard to imagine any choir director not learning heaps from the book.
Recommended for anyone running a choir.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book wasn't really for me, I have to say. Firstly, I conduct a choral society, and Bertalot, while touching on this aspect, writes mostly about church choirs. While there's still a lot to learm here about choir training, if you're like me you'll be skipping ahead through all the stuff about parish duties and training of boy trebles.
I really hated the "buddy movie" format, though. Too many words are wasted on the cosy and rather stilted relationship between the choir director and Bob. For example, the director suggests heating up some microwave meals for the two of them, but Bob insists on repaying his host's kindness by cooking some chicken stir fry. Yum yum. So they stop off at the supermarket to buy the ingredients, etc, etc. What was the point of all this? And the actual writing of the dialogue sections is amateurish in the extreme. Bob emerges as a cardboard cut-out whose main function is to gush in an unseemly fashion every time the choir director makes some pronouncement. "Wow!" says Bob about a thousand times. Maybe I'm just too British.
This really detracted from the genuine nuggets of wisdom contained in this book. Bertalot's reminscences about, for example, the great Boris Ord are fascinating.
It's impossible not to learn something from this book, but I had to dig for it.
I really hated the "buddy movie" format, though. Too many words are wasted on the cosy and rather stilted relationship between the choir director and Bob. For example, the director suggests heating up some microwave meals for the two of them, but Bob insists on repaying his host's kindness by cooking some chicken stir fry. Yum yum. So they stop off at the supermarket to buy the ingredients, etc, etc. What was the point of all this? And the actual writing of the dialogue sections is amateurish in the extreme. Bob emerges as a cardboard cut-out whose main function is to gush in an unseemly fashion every time the choir director makes some pronouncement. "Wow!" says Bob about a thousand times. Maybe I'm just too British.
This really detracted from the genuine nuggets of wisdom contained in this book. Bertalot's reminscences about, for example, the great Boris Ord are fascinating.
It's impossible not to learn something from this book, but I had to dig for it.
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