HCP 16: Casulana’s Women Chorus on creating a women chorus
Neena Taylor and Janwin Overstreet Goode are the co-founders of Casulana’s Women Chorus of Houston. In this episode, they shared the process of creating from zero a new women ensemble and how Neena and Janwin’s experience as choral educators lead them to work together to bring this dream to life. They share with us how they did it, why, what was challenging and how they overcome it, as well as how they keep learning and growing and having fun creating this new community.
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In this episode, you will learn:
- Why the name Casulana women chorus?
- Neena and Janwin’s story in music
- why Janwin went from wanting to be a band director to choir director
- Why choir?
- What were the challenges that they found in their careers before founding the choir
- Their journey to welcome and help kids sign up for choir and show the school the importance of arts in the educational program
- How they came about the creation of a women chorus
- The challenges and the learning curve as they figure out the steps to create the choir, the repertoire, the rehearsals.
- How their combined experience helped them make this ensemble a better experience for everybody
- How people from their community stepped up to help them form the non-profit and website
- What they want to bring to their singers and how important it is the inner support in the choir
- The activities they hope to do to keep evolving as a choir and reaching more audiences
- Their advice to the people out there thinking on making their women chorus and their openness to offer their knowledge
- Their advice to women choral singers
- Information about their first concert! Don’t miss it 🙂
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