How To Be a Successful Choir Director is the distillation of the author's experience of training choirs over half a century. John Bertalot has applied his tech­niques success­fully in both England and America with church choirs large and small, amateur and professional.

He addresses all the most common problems associated with choir direction and proposes easily under­­stood and actioned solu­tions. He covers every­thing from

• punctu­ality
• irregular attendance
• musical standards
• conducting
• breathing
• chattering
• warm-ups
• singing in tune
• accompaniment
• children's choirs
• dealing with clergy
• new music

and so much more, all done with a lightness of touch, humour and enormous enthusiasm.

How To Be a Successful Choir Director is a book full of practical suggestions that really work.