2023 Foundations Talk | 1:05:04 | Art & Music
Summary
The familiar expression is, “water everywhere but nary a drop to drink.” Similarly, music is everywhere around us in our culture. We all have access to it with the mere touch of our fingers on our devices. We can hear the best and the worst of music in seconds. But do we see music-making and music literacy as vital in educating young people in our schools, churches, and homes? In this session talk, hear from Mr. Jarrod Richey, a choir director and music educator who enjoys encouraging Christian teachers and parents to see music not as a garnish on our plate but as an essential ingredient to our health. The attendee will walk away with practical and theological encouragement on how music can uniquely help us in “bringing our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” and how these things work themselves out in classical Christian Education.
Speaker
Jarrod Richey has been teaching general music and choir classes at Geneva Academy in West Monroe, Louisiana, since 2008. He is the founder and music director of the Delta Youth Chorale, a children’s community choir that promotes music literacy through singing, folk dance, and activities in northeast Louisiana. Additionally, Mr. Richey previously taught voice, choir, and music appreciation classes at the University of Louisiana Monroe. He received his bachelor’s degree at Louisiana Tech University before completing his Masters of Music at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Mr. Richey also completed his national Kodály music teacher certification from Wichita State University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the Assistant Director of the New Saint Andrews Conservatory of Music at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. Additionally, he teaches solfege musicianship, folk-dancing, and folk song research and analysis courses each July and August for their Kodály music teacher training program (Chenaniah Summer Music Institute) at New Saint Andrews College. Mr. Richey is an active elementary and middle school choir clinician. He is the Jubilate Deo Summer Music Camp founder and director, a week-long choir and music camp open to kindergarten through first-year college students each June. Mr. Richey is the author of BACH to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today (2016). He is the general editor and contributing author to the ACCS publication Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education (2019). Jarrod and his lovely wife, Sarah, have seven choristers in training ranging from toddler to fifteen.
jrichey@nsa.edu
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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