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.
Today’s performers imagine that modern ideas about how to perform Romantic music correspond with what the composers themselves would have heard. But in recent years, restoration of many early recordings and research into various written sources have revealed a very different picture. A lost tradition of nineteenth-century interpretation is currently being re-discovered by a number […]
Winston-Salem, NCThis session will focus on vocal techniques that are easily understood by students with little to no singing experience, and that will help them quickly become contributing members of a choral ensemble. We will also discuss specific teaching strategies in helping motivate these kinds of students. One of the presenter’s greatest joys in the choral […]
Winston-SalemThis session will use music of Randall Thompson, Tomas Luis da Victoria, and George Frederick Handel to assist conductors in finding the inner clues often hidden in the musical notation that provide some insight into how the music should actually sound. While the repertoire for this session is written for mixed voices (soprano, alto, tenor, […]
Winston-SalemThe life of Johannes Herbst represents the first generation of the renewed Moravian Church in Europe and America. Unique among the well-traveled Moravian leadership, he lived in every significant center of Moravian life from his birth in 1735, until his death in 1812. He is buried in Winston-Salem’s Moravian cemetery. Atypical among Moravian leaders, Herbst […]
Winston-Salem, NCHow do we listen and what are we listening for in our rehearsals and concerts? Can we hear while we are thinking about what’s coming next? Does the sensory clutter allow us to be in the moment? Making decisions in the moment based upon what we hear rather than what we expect can be challenging […]
Winston-Salem, NC
