American Choral Directors Association
The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.
This session will explore the benefits and challenges of adding and maintaining a show choir program to bolster one’s traditional choral program. We will explore topics such as general recruitment, choreographers, competitions, and appropriate literature choices. Also being addressed is the topic of arrangements and legal copyright permissions for custom charts.
Dallas, TXThis session, will examine decisions we can make to enhance our own rehearsal and conducting technique in an effort to inspire the level of artistry that our students, the music, the listener, and we as conductors all deserve. Topics covered will include: respecting the gesture, respecting musicianship, respecting the repertoire, respecting composer intent, respecting our […]
Dallas, TXThis session will explore the following questions: What should I expect at an orchestra rehearsal? How can I best prepare for the experience? What does the orchestra need from the conductor? We will also explore strategies for score preparation, effective rehearsal techniques and principles of baton technique that will allow for clear communication between conductor […]
Dallas, TXThis session will discuss a score’s effect on interpretation, with a focus on the comparison of conventional scores available from retailers and the massive volume of user-edited maintained scores on CPDL, IMSLP, and other free sources. The goal of the session is to develop a manner of selecting editions that allow for the greatest ease […]
Dallas, TXThe session is based in leadership principals outlined in current best sellers including The Art of Possibility, Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, The Courage to Teach, Good to Great, Talent is never Enough and Blink. There will be numerous opportunities for audience participation […]
Dallas, TX
