Continuing the Quest: Interview with Outstanding Choral Conductors

by Carole June Glenn, Michael Austin Miller (Editor)

In 1991, Hinshaw Music published In Quest of Interviews with American Choral Conductors . Carole Glenn was the editor and interviewer.
The book was Glenn’s third attempt to create a compendium of answers to the myriad questions that choral conductors ask in attempting to resolve their own choral issues. This book, Continuing the Interviews with Outstanding Choral Conductors, is her fourth attempt to provide a resource of the historically prominent choral conductors’ responses to conductors’ essential questions. Glenn’s intention was not that the reader should agree with every answer she collected, but that the reader would hold in hand a broad base of opinions for the answer sought. The questions asked in the first edition are as relevant today as they would have been at any point in our history of the choral art.
This edition of the book also provides new information in the form of a section of essays by additional historically prominent choral conductors that the reader will find interesting and informative. The subjects of the essays vary in accordance with the writers’ personal choral interests to the prevailing social and political causes of the day.
Reading the words of these chosen choral conductors provide all with the opportunity to ask the questions that were asked forty-plus years ago and are still being asked today. We are lucky to have this resource which includes the voices of those no longer with us, and to hear from those conductor colleagues who are still with us as they share their wisdom on various topics.
Carole Glenn and her co-interviewer/co-editor Michael Miller have provided an excellent resource for choral directors.
from Foreward by André Thomas

521 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2023