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 includes a lecture and demonstration format with ENMU Chamber Singers and beginning conductors (along with audience participation). Examples of exercises for developing listening, gesture, creativity, and ownership will be implemented with all those in attendance. The process recommended here is aimed at relieving all students of self-consciousness and putting them in a position […]
Oklahoma City OK.The number of college students who will soon be new conductors and conductors with less than five years of experience is on the rise. Even with strong undergraduate programs preparing students through ensemble and studio work and methods classes, there is still much left to trial and error. What do you do when you are […]
Oklahoma City OK.An oft-repeated complaint is that there is never enough rehearsal time. On further analysis, however, a staggering amount of wasted time may be lost to a variety of pedagogically poor procedures. A minute here, two minutes there add up to significant amounts of lost rehearsal time. How do we maximize our rehearsal efficiency? It begins […]
Oklahoma City OK.This session prompts us to ask deeper questions about the language we use, about systems of power, and about our heritage and inheritance. When we examine our teaching, we may find that while we do not intentionally act with bigotry, we may be complicit in adopting systems and language that marginalize and discriminate. In this […]
Portland OR.Drawing direct parallels with over a dozen psychological experiments on learning and memory, this session reexamines the way we plan and implement our rehearsal both on the large and small scale to achieve the highest levels of learning and mastery possible among our singers. Focusing on lab-tested and verified techniques including spaced retrieval (the testing […]
Portland OR.Research into the area of how to structure a choral rehearsal, how to manage rehearsal time, and how to plan a rehearsal is abundant. What seems to be missing in the literature is how choral directors could be more efficient in the way they deliver their own instructions within the context of each rehearsal. To […]
Portland OR.
PO Box 1705
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-1705
(405)232-8161
