CUEcast is the weekly podcast of YouthCUE.
Released every Tuesday morning at 6AM Central, each episode is packed with information and inspiration for student choir leaders, music educators, ministers, teenage singers, parents of youth choir kids, YouthCUE alumni, YouthCUE donors, and all other interested parties.
Episodes include interviews
with composers, directors, music educators, student choir singers, youth ministers, professional artists, YouthCUE alumni, YouthCUE program participants, and more. Often, musical excerpts are included designed to inspire and inform listeners of new anthem resources.
You may listen to each episode for free here on the website, but it’s much easier to take advantage of the subscription to CUEcast by activating the “Podcast” app (usually purple) on your smartphone or iPad. Here’s how … it will take you less than one minute, and it’s totally free!
Instructions to subscribe to CUEcast
- Find the Podcast app
- Touch the app icon, which will send you inside the app
- Look for “magnifying glass” to find the search feature.
- Search for: CUEcast
- CUEcast logo will appear. It’s cyan-colored.
- Touch CUEcast logo.
- Find “Subscribe” and simply touch the word “Subscribe.”
- That’s it. You’re all set!
- When you have subscribed, the app will automatically drive new episodes to this same place (under the purple Podcast app on your device) to listen to the episodes at your convenience. Episodes will sit and wait for you until you have the chance to listen. Also, the app will allow you to access all past episodes by touching “All Episodes.”
- Select the episode you’d like to hear and enjoy.
Episode 69 – Taking Youth Choirs into the Larger Community for Rich Relationships, New Collaborations, and Unique Ministries
Rev. Wyndee Holbrook is Director of the Interfaith San Antonio Alliance and Pastor in Residence at Laurel Heights United Methodist Church. In this important interview, Wyndee and Randy discuss the value of bringing students into the larger world of interfaith...
Episode 68 – Side by Side
Wiff Rudd is Professor of Trumpet at Baylor University. An extraordinary player and a legendary teacher, Wiff has performed and presented master classes at more than 350 universities and music festivals on five continents. In recent years, Baylor’s trumpet ensembles...
Episode 67 – SAYC alumni consider their choral experience for today’s collegiate challenges
Four university women -- Macy Drew, Amber Bormann, Kate Dutton, and Gabbi Newell -- discuss the challenge they face on campus and how their common experience in the San Antonio Youth Chorale is helping sustain them through the university years. It becomes obvious very...
Episode 66 – Challenging large institutional churches to look in the mirror
Jonathan Greer is a theology student at Brite Divinity School in Ft. Worth, Texas. He was drawn into this theological environment to challenge himself and further develop his skills as a peacemaker and an ambassador between local churches and the larger community in...
Episode 65 – The spoken word as art
We welcome back our friend Angelique Feaster Evans as our guest on Episode 65. Angelique, the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mahogany Ensemble Theater in Shreveport, LA, is a world-class artist and performer. In this conversation, we will ask Angelique to share...
Episode 64 – A choral professor’s philosophy for inspiring excellence
Dr. Paul Neal is Director of Choral Activities at Berry College in Rome, GA. Having completed his DMA at UCLA under Donald Neuen, Paul was an early YouthCUE alumnus, having grown up through high school singing in Randy’s church youth choir. Paul’s musical journey...
Episode 63 – Art as a way of embracing social justice and racial equality
American soprano Melissa Givens moves and excites audiences and critics alike with a rich, powerful tone, crystalline clarity, and intelligent musical interpretations. A champion for collaborative musical endeavors, Givens performs with various chamber groups,...
Episode 62 – Student choir ministry to last over the long haul
Veteran minister of music and youth choir director Sid Davis (St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Houston) discusses the principles which have built his youth choir dynasty through the decades. As Sid continues to work closely with his students, the foundation being...
Episode 61 – Students’ dialogue
In this episode, Randy and three high schoolers discuss the importance of words. We’ll dialogue about verbal affirmation, encouraging rhetoric, trash talk, and genuine ways of expressing openness and friendship with those we are meeting for the first time. The...
Episode 60 – Keeping my students singing
Dana Effler is Director of Music and Arts Ministries at First United Methodist Church in downtown Dallas. While she gives overall leadership to the church’s diverse and robust music ministry, Dana also directs seventh though twelfth graders in The Variations Youth...
