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 address the advantages of teaching rather than simply rehearsing your choir and model techniques for structuring the rehearsal to engage your singers to think and solve musical problems independently. Octavos of various voicings and difficulty will be used to demonstrate the application of this approach to all age and ability levels.
Providence, RITexts guide us through worship. Words define the choral art. We respond to our faith in God from the heart, and often by heart. Come and join us in one of Providence’s most unusual sacred spaces for an interfaith worship service that employs everyone without the use of printed texts. Experience elegant, structured worship that […]
Providence, RIUsing case studies, this workshop will explore how community choirs can increase their membership, income, visibility, and creative/collaborative programming by engaging in community service. This dual mission—to create opportunities for choral artistry and service—provides a new paradigm for choral singing and provides a powerful tool for building community support.
Providence, RIMaking music with singers who have intellectual and physical disabilities offers great rewards and significant challenges. As the core of the ACDA Eastern Division’s Building Communities Festival Choir, Joyful Noise’s singers will share their passion for music with the singers and music therapists joining them in conference rehearsals and this interest session led by Allison […]
Providence, RIThrough demonstrations by the Mansfield University Concert Choir and with audience participation, Peggy Dettwiler will show how to teach and expand the vocal techniques of choirs so that they can produce different choral colors and sing repertoire in a wide variety of styles and from contrasting world cultures.
Providence, RI
