Reply To: Use of sacred choral music in public schools

[nafmeadmin]

The NAfME position statement will be helpful in your communication with administrators. Sacred music has its place in the choral curriculum in studying the musical periods and the great masters of early music through contemporary music. It would be like taking the textbook out of any classroom. Since your administrators are obviously not music majors you may need to solicite the help from a district music person to help back you up. To remove the sacred music from your curriculum would certainly put a gap in the training the students receive. As long as there is balance between sacred and secular there is no mandate that sacred music be removed from choral classes. Please let us know how this plays out.

LeAnna Willmore, NAfME Choral Education Chair