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.
Venture into the world of the boy. How do you successfully deal with boys in choirs? How do you keep boys engaged, overcome stereotypes, recruit, retain, and select appropriate repertoire? The magic of movement and how athletics can exist with the arts in a boy’s life will also be explored.
Little Rock AR.An overview of the evolution of the Negro spiritual in American musical culture: what influences contributed to its development and propagation, and how it evolved from the oral experience to became vehicles for public performance as solo and choral works on the concert stage. This session will include lecture/demonstrations and interactive performance activities.
Little Rock AR.Implementing the national standards into the choral rehearsal continues to be a difficult task for many high school choir directors. Ideas will be presented for meeting each of the national standards during a typical choral rehearsal. Practical solutions to classroom management, planning time, and assessment will be presented.
Little Rock AR.World music provides opportunities for cultural exploration in addition to enriching an ensemble’s musical vocabulary. We will explore the processes in finding and selecting appropriate repertoire. Attendees will learn about programming, rehearsing, and performing world choral music.
Little Rock AR.With over fifteen thousand scores, the vast Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is a daunting resource and one often misunderstood to contain only ancient scores in poor editions. How do you navigate the CPDL website to find and upload quality scores? Outstanding repertoire for all levels and all choirs will be discussed.
Little Rock AR.Time is one of the greatest commodities in our profession. This session will present specific techniques that maximize efficiency and allow increased opportunities for memorable rehearsal experiences. Repertoire and planning models from a variety of contexts will be presented.
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