Task List

This is certainly an incomplete list, but perhaps useful for purposes of advocating for salary or employment status.

Choosing Music

• Hymnody
• Service Music
• Prelude
• Postlude
• Offertories (solos, duets, choral repertoire)
• Children’s choir music
• Additional anthems (communion, introit)
• Introductions/reharmonizations/interludes/descants

Practice

• See above
• Conducting gesture for choral repertoire
• Choral rehearsal piano parts

Children’s Choir

• Activity/games
• Rehearsal plan
• Parent communication

Adult Choir

• Rehearsal plan

Communication

Updating shared planning documents

• Music
• Composers
• Composer’s dates
• Lyrics

Emails to choir

• Reminders
• Thank yous

Emails to staff singers

• Music
• Schedules
• Children’s Choir Music

Hired instrumentalists and singers

• Confirmation/reminders
• Sending music

Update choir anthem and rehearsal schedule

Instruments

• Keep running list of organ/piano issues
• Schedule organ/piano maintenance

Hiring

Instrumentalists/Singers

• Black History Month Celebration
• Lenten series
• Palm Sunday
• Easter
• Cathedral Celebration/Parochial visit
• Diaconate Ordination
• Rally Day
• All Saint’s Sunday
• Advent Lessons and Carols
• Christmas Eve

Substitutes for days off

Organists for large choral events

Physical Music

• Folders
• Hymnody for large events
• Filing

Continuing Education

Renewing memberships

• Hymn society
• ACDA
• AGO
• NPM

Conferences

Webinars

Financial

• Submit receipts
• Monitor budget
• Submit checks for guest musicians
• Submit checks for staff singers

Cathedral Initiatives (Insert your own)

Betty Coale Young Musician Scholarship

• Distribute audition information
• Process auditions
• Notify
• Schedule

Event setup

Chairs in place for instrumentalists

Annotated bulletins for guests