American Choral Directors Association

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Choral Journal

May 2014

Download the complete issue.  (14 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Fashioning compelling Stories: Enriching the Choral Singer’s Experience through Text Narrative Exploration by Philip E. Silvey Icon in Sound: An Interview with Sir John Tavener by Gregory M. Pysh Teaching for Transfer: Developing Critical Thinking Skills with Adolescent Singers by Matthew L. Garrett On the […]



April 2014

Download the complete issue.  (16 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES A Star-Spangled Bicentennial: A Conversation with Jerry Blackstone, Mark Clague, and Andrew Kuster by Jerry Blackstone, Mark Clague, and Andrew Kuster Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice: Reassessing Tradition and Revitalizing Interpretation by Deanna Joseph Musical Settings of War Texts in Two Twentieth-Century British Choral Works, Part 2 […]



March 2014

Download the complete issue.  (16 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Cuban Choral Music: Historical Development and Modern Influencesby Jose Rivera Venezuelan Choral Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Catalogueby Maria Guinand Canada’s Choral Music Development by Hilary Apfelstadt Mexican Choral Composers: A Brief History by Jorge Cozatl COLUMNS Repertoire & StandardsThe Formula for […]



February 2014

Download the complete issue.  (13 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Musical Settings of War Texts in Two Twentieth-Century British Choral Works, Part 1 by William Skoog The Complex Ancestry of We Shall Overcome by Victor V. Bobetsky The Choral Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 – 1972) by Donald George, Lucy Mauro, James Johnston, and Heather Eyerly […]



January 2014

Download the complete issue.  (22MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES International Conductors Exchange Program: Building Bridges to Chinaby T.J. Harper Eastern Division Conference Preview Western Division Conference Preview Central Division Conference Preview Southern Division Conference Preview Northwestern Division Conference Preview North Central Division Conference Preview Southwestern Division Conference Preview



December 2013

Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Choral Works for Women by Prominent Canadian Female Composersby Hilary Apfelstadt The Conductor as Composer: An Interview with Joan Szymkoby Debra Spurgeon Path to Discovery: Programming for Women’s Chorus with Orchestraby Amanda Quist COLUMNS Repertoire & StandardsBrahms’s Dreu Geistliche Chor by Shannon Gravelle