In this class, we will be exploring how arrangers/music directors can open the door for all members to contribute their own creative ideas and arranging skills to the development of any given arrangement while still maintaining a unified sound and journey within a song. We hope people will learn that this type of organization, inclusion, and collaboration will lead to efficiency, originality, and connection to material, that these methods help build group sustainability by naturally training the next arrangers/music directors of the group, and that we will help them begin to build true collaborative mindsets, methods, and practices within a creative space, including what productive collaboration is and what it isn’t.
