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ACDA On Location Volume 1

Children's Choir with Doreen Rao and the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

Volume 1 of this series, The Children’s choir with Doreen Rao and The Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus, Doreen Rao shares her artistic approach to children’s music education, emphasizing the singing skills children need to produce, practice, and perform choral music.  This classic presentation is a must for every choral conductor involved with children’s voices.  Its use in the college classroom will be a valuable asset in the preparation of students for careers in choral music education.

ACDA On Location Volume 2

Howard Swan Interviewed by Gordon Paine

ACDA On Location Volume 3

Jester Hairston Interviewed by Gene Brooks

The 28-minute Peace Event began at 9:02, the moment of the explosion on April 19, 1995.  Just as the memorial is dedicated “to educating visitors about the impact of violence and inspiring hope and healing through lessons learned by those affected,” the ACDA Peace Event was intended as a great coming together of the diverse membership of ACDA and of guests from around the region. It is hoped that the musical ceremony created a space both for remembering and for deep and meaningful reflection on hope and healing within our human community.

Presented by Will Breytspraak

Learn a broad gamut of engaging techniques for teaching sight-reading in the choral rehearsal that work in tandem with the methods or melodic material you already use. Attend this session to experience games such as Backward Reading of Melodies, Staccato Pulse Singing, The Singing Snake, Name the Tune and more. 

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This session addresses the special challenges faced by male choir directors when working with a women's choir.

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This session explores the rich diversity of songs connected to the quest for civil rights in America for over a century. Join us as we look at some of the people, places and events that shaped our American social and political landscape through a musical perspective.

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Bob Chilcott presents his Upper Voice music and discusses the
motication and creative process behind his compositions. Chilcott also
workshops some of his own repertoire and explores how best to bring his
music to life.

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Canada is a young country with an abundance of terrain and plenty of room for the adventurous spirit. Her folk songs celebrate this spirit with stories about lumberjacks and loggers, fishermen and sailors, frontiersmen and explorers, cowboys and sod busters, miners and men on the railroad. One hears songs of the prairies, songs of the mountains, songs of the Great Lakes, and songs of the oceans; songs of love, or adventure, of danger; of loneliness, of longing, of dreams and memories. The tunes are often lifting happy, robust and boisterous, but they can also be plaintive, reflective, and deeply sad in the loneliness of isolation. Explore this treasury of stories - sing with the lions.

Drawing on their own performance experience, Melvin Unger and Mary Greer will demonstrate ways in which Bach's sacred cantatas can be presented in context - ranging from recreation of a Leipzig liturgy to a concert featuring cantatas written for the same liturgical occasion and therefore linked by theme. Their suggestions and resource materials for recreating aspects of the works' original religious, literary, and dramatic context should prove stimulating to conductors who want to bring these works to life for the modern listener.

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