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 discuss programming and repertoire ideas for male chorus that may typically be overlooked. The following questions will be answered: • What repertoire makes a male chorus concert interesting? • How does a conductor find the balance between challenging and doable? • What pieces help to build an audience (and keep them coming […]
Seattle WA.Teaching the sounds of language is often daunting for the choral music educator. By supplementing the use of the IPA with Cued Speech—a gestural system of labels that describe the sounds of language—a choral music educator may be able to reach additional students and more successfully empower students to recall and execute the sounds of […]
Seattle WA.The purpose of this session is to empower those who work with students in grades 7–12 with an understanding of what students discover and come to value in the artistic choral experience. Over 200 responses were collected from singers.These findings have practical application and relevance for educators as they plan for instruction and shape their […]
Seattle WA.The choral community has shown a tremendous interest in world music, particularly music with rhythmic roots. This session is designed to give participants an experience of singing choral music from African and Gospel roots. Participants will become the “demo” choir in order to explore characteristics such as improvisation, spontaneous part-singing, flexible forms, and more. Performance […]
Seattle WA.Collaboration between voice teachers and choral conductors is one of the best ways to develop a choral sound. A successful university team will lead you through an investigation of new ways to affect change by first applying studio approaches to technical issues and then addressing their application in a choral setting. You will learn by […]
Seattle WA.Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Tarik O’Regan’s Scattered Rhymes and its Compositional Relationship to Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame and the Music of ‘The Who’ by Cameron F. LaBarr Wordplay in Stravinsky’s Svadebka, Part II by Marika C. Kuzma Leonard Van Camp: A Legacy of Success by Patrick K. Freer and Mark Buske COLUMNS Repertoire & Standards The Center for Black […]
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