2024 Nebraska All-State Chorus

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Conductor Info
Repertoire
Selected Participants
Director Information
Rehearsal Tracks
Rehearsal Notes
Parent/Guardian Information

 

2024 ALL-STATE CHORUS CONDUCTOR BIO

Dr. Derrick Fox is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Creative Endeavors and a Professor of Choral Conducting at Michigan State University. Prior to MSU, he was the Director of Choral Activities and Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Assistant Professor of Choral Music at Ithaca College. Dr. Fox has taught at the middle school, high school and collegiate levels. His conducting experiences have included singers from upper elementary choirs through collegiate and community choirs. He was awarded the 2021 Bryan R. Johnson Service Award by the Nebraska Music Educators Association and the 2022 University of Nebraska Omaha Award for Distinguished Research/Creative Activity.

Dr. Fox has conducted all state and regional choirs across the United States, led international, national and regional choral concerts/residencies and presented professional development workshops across the United States and internationally. His professional workshops focus on assessment in the choral classroom, building classroom community, rehearsal strategies, choral conducting techniques and shape note singing in the African American community. Dr. Fox has held teaching residencies at the Latvian Academy of Music and Syracuse University and led performance tours through Lithuania and Estonia. Dr. Fox conducted the 2019 National ACDA Middle School/Junior High Mixed Honor Choir and traveled to South Africa as a 2019 ACDA International Conductor Exchange Fellow where he led choral workshops and rehearsals in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Potchefstroom.

As a baritone soloist, Dr. Fox has collaborated with various organizations; among them are the Arkansas Symphony, Lansing Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Columbia Chorale, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha Symphonic Chorus, University of Missouri, Michigan State University, Webster University and the Espaço Cultural (Brasilia, Brazil). He can be heard singing selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on the compact disc In This Hid Clearing, available on the Naxos Classical Music label.

As an author, Dr. Fox has written articles for many organizations and was a contributing author in the Hal Leonard/McGraw Hill choral textbook Voices in Concert. His compositions and arrangements are published by Hal Leonard and Brilee Music. His book, Yes You Can: A Band Director’s Guide to Teaching Choirs is published by Carl Fischer. He launched The Derrick Fox Choral Series with Music Spoke to publish works by and about marginalized and minoritized people. He also partnered with the Country Music Association Foundation to create the Unified Voices for Music Education Initiative which provides learning activities for instrumental and elementary music educators. He is the writer and host of the radio show Reflections of Us, a show focused on amplifying diverse voice in the classical music.

Dr. Fox serves on the advisory board for Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative of Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, which promotes collaborative engagement with the songbooks that sound America’s musical landscape. https://www.drderrickfox.com/

 

2024 ALL-STATE CHORUS REPERTOIRE

TITLE COMPOSER PARTS PUBLISHER
Agnus Dei Ernesto Herrera SATB Mark Foster Music Co.
Die Mainacht Brahms SATB Galaxy Music Corporation
Signs of the Judgments Mark Butler SATB Hinshaw
I Will Be Earth Gwyneth Walker SATB Schirmer
Oh, What a Beautiful City Eurydice Osterman SATB Gia Publications
L'dor Vador Meir Finkelstein SATB Transcontinental Music

 

2024 ALL-STATE ENSEMBLES SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

The 2024 All-State Ensembles have been selected and are available for the public to view. We look forward to the 2024 All-State performances and the opportunity to work with such dedicated youth from all across our great state!

2024 All-State Selected Participants - ALL ENSEMBLES

DIRECTOR INFORMATION

ALL-STATE SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

The 2024 All-State Ensembles have been selected and are available for DIRECTORS ONLY to view. You willbe required to log in to your NMEA profile in order to view it. The results will then be available for the public to view on our website on Wednesday, October 23.

View the Results

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

ALL-STATE STUDENT CONTRACT INSTRUCTIONS

In order for your students to participate in All-State, they will need to sign and return the ParticipantContract. Please note these participant forms must be MAILED in by directors. Students will not be allowed to participate if this form is not postmarked by November 4th. Directors will need to send in all signed contracts to:

Westview High School
Attn: Doug Bogatz
15800 Summit Plaza
Bennington, NE 68807

Note: ALL STUDENT CONTRACTS MUST BE NOTARIZED!

ALL-STATE PRESS RELEASES

NMEA will be handling a mass press release to all newspapers in Nebraska. A press release template will not be included in this year's materials.

REHEARSAL TRACKS

Rehearsal tracks for the 2024 All-State Chorus are now available for purchase. NMEA is partnering with Choral Tracks again to provide rehearsal tracks for S1, S2, A1, A2, T1, T2, B1, and B2 at the cost of $14 each. Click the link below to purchase tracks through the Choral Tracks website.

IMPORTANT: If you have previously purchased All-State Chorus rehearsal tracks, there is an update available for Lor V’dor and Oh What A Beautiful City. You can access these updates by contacting Choral Tracks at [email protected]. Chorus audition selections will be made from these corrected versions of the rehearsal tracks. If you have not yet purchased, the tracks available have already been corrected and no additional action is needed. 

Purchase Rehearsal Tracks

Questions about rehearsal tracks can be sent to the Executive Director at [email protected].

Teachers and students are reminded that rehearsal tracks are intended for sale to single, individual students. NMEA asks teachers to be on the honor system and not purchase a set (a "set" is one of each voice part) and distribute them to multiple students. Anyone making an individual order is asked to not share their purchased MP3s with anyone else.

REHEARSAL NOTES & PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Dr. Derrick Fox has provided rehearsal notes as well as a pronunciation guide for L'dor Vador to help guide students' preparation for the 2024 All-State Chorus repertoire. Click the links below to view the notes. 

Rehearsal Notes
Pronunciation Guide

 

PARENT & LEGAL GUARDIAN INFORMATION