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 is a lecture-recital with the small ensemble Jargon singing the music and telling the history and musical practices of the Yankee tunesmiths who were America’s first homegrown composers or makers of tunes. For those interested in the musical genre of the tunesmiths, the early of syllables used for teaching, and the potential use […]
Little Rock AR.Is the sheet music you want to perform too high for your singers or written for a different choral configuration than your performing group? This in-depth session delves into the intricacies, roadblocks, and tips for the successful scanning of sheet music into notation programs in general and Finale in particular.
Little Rock AR.This session provides directors of church music programs with new and tried-and-true repertoire selections to bolster the success of their children’s and youth choirs. Attention is given to accessible pieces that require minimal rehearsal time but offer substantial musicality and spiritual depth.
Little Rock AR.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.
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