Montevallo University’s prestigious choir director, Dr. Melinda Doyle, visited vocal IV choir on Tuesday, March 11, 2014.
Dr. Doyle has taught choral at Louisiana State University, and Florida Gulf Coast University, where she has impacted everyone she meets through the beauty of music and her exuberant personality.
“She used this as a recruiting tool, as her choir is taking on a tour to different schools. Sparkman students got to experience a time with a master and college choir,” choir teacher Dr. Mary Taylor said. “She had her choir sight read a piece, rehearse, and perform it with Vocal IV. It was unbelievable to see that type of discipline and talent come out.”
The Montevallo University Concert Choir is an auditioned choir of students from the University Campus. This includes Music and Non-Music majors. They have performed in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana by invitation. The choir has a wide range of variety of songs that they do, but with all this success comes a large load of practices, that handles all perfections and mistakes.
“What’s funny is her way of pointing out what’s wrong without having to say what the mistake is, we all correct, and get it right afterwards,” junior Slade Hogan said.
Doyle and her choir are very fun, and laid back, but at the same very diligent in discipline.
“Interaction with the choir was super fun,” Jasmine Binford said.