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Episode 195: Elementary Choirs-Our Manhattan Project with Bruce Rockwell
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Is it possible that we are all grasping at the wrong straws trying to reach program growth in an equitable way? Bruce Rockwell believes we need a transformative revolution in choral music. One where we turn our collective focus toward the Elementary School Choir.
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Bruce is a high school choral educator who teaches in a district in which a very small percentage of elementary students are presented with a choral music experience. Across the country, we have a vast inequity in access to choral music making opportunities at the Elementary level. Not only disparities in access to high level choral experiences, but also access to basic, school choirs.
When we don’t have choral students, we don’t have choral parents. When we don’t have choral parents, we don’t have administrators that see it as important. This is the danger of not tending the roots. We have developed a top down perspective on what we are concerned with.
We are concerned with equity and issues of representation at the top. “Who makes all state choir?” “Who’s music is being programmed?” These are fine things to ask. But, this like noticing blemishes on a leaf and continuously pruning without bothering to check the tree under the earth.
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LUDUS.logo_.green_.png?resize=525%2C106&ssl=1)
We also discuss the problem of our professional organizations being run by mostly Collegiate directors. These directors may be very supportive of elementary music, but may be separated from the consequences. You can have an inequitable system, and still have it look just fine at the top.
Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com.
Be Sure to Find Choralosophy on TikTok!
@choralosophypodca
For future rehearsal clips, find me on TikTok, Insta and FB!
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Bruce Rockwell is the choir director at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, California. He has taught choir, piano and guitar at College Park for 15 years, instrumental music at the San Francisco Waldorf schools, and theory and musicianship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s pre-college division. Mr. Rockwell received is MM in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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- Choir Director Probs
- Choralosophy Book Club
- Chris Munce
- Community
- Covid Conversations
- Educational Philosophy
- Human Diversity
- Instruction and Assessment
- International
- Lori Sonnenberg
- Oxford Series
- Podcasts
- Politics and Current Events
- Student Perspectives
- Uncategorized
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Manage episode 414297817 series 2507740
Is it possible that we are all grasping at the wrong straws trying to reach program growth in an equitable way? Bruce Rockwell believes we need a transformative revolution in choral music. One where we turn our collective focus toward the Elementary School Choir.
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ep-195.png?resize=525%2C525&ssl=1)
Bruce is a high school choral educator who teaches in a district in which a very small percentage of elementary students are presented with a choral music experience. Across the country, we have a vast inequity in access to choral music making opportunities at the Elementary level. Not only disparities in access to high level choral experiences, but also access to basic, school choirs.
When we don’t have choral students, we don’t have choral parents. When we don’t have choral parents, we don’t have administrators that see it as important. This is the danger of not tending the roots. We have developed a top down perspective on what we are concerned with.
We are concerned with equity and issues of representation at the top. “Who makes all state choir?” “Who’s music is being programmed?” These are fine things to ask. But, this like noticing blemishes on a leaf and continuously pruning without bothering to check the tree under the earth.
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LUDUS.logo_.green_.png?resize=525%2C106&ssl=1)
We also discuss the problem of our professional organizations being run by mostly Collegiate directors. These directors may be very supportive of elementary music, but may be separated from the consequences. You can have an inequitable system, and still have it look just fine at the top.
Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com.
Be Sure to Find Choralosophy on TikTok!
@choralosophypodca
For future rehearsal clips, find me on TikTok, Insta and FB!
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/srf-logo-350.jpg?resize=350%2C250&ssl=1)
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mymusicfolders_logo_horizontal_1546100229__78733.original.png?resize=252%2C63&ssl=1)
View this profile on InstagramChoralosophy Podcast (@choralosophy) • Instagram photos and videos
Bruce Rockwell is the choir director at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, California. He has taught choir, piano and guitar at College Park for 15 years, instrumental music at the San Francisco Waldorf schools, and theory and musicianship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s pre-college division. Mr. Rockwell received is MM in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Endeavor-Logo-blue.png?resize=300%2C82&ssl=1)
![](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/graphite-logo.png?resize=130%2C62&ssl=1)
Paul Rudoi and MANY more.
- Car Thoughts
- Choir Director Probs
- Choralosophy Book Club
- Chris Munce
- Community
- Covid Conversations
- Educational Philosophy
- Human Diversity
- Instruction and Assessment
- International
- Lori Sonnenberg
- Oxford Series
- Podcasts
- Politics and Current Events
- Student Perspectives
- Uncategorized
![7ea306f1-f812-4d0f-994f-7e6a8cd03e0d](https://i0.wp.com/choralosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/7ea306f1-f812-4d0f-994f-7e6a8cd03e0d.jpg?resize=525%2C525&ssl=1)
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