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.
Large ensemble music instruction may well be more teacher-directed than any other aspect of schooling. Often the process is relegated to merely recreating the conductor’s musical ideas—and doing so as quickly as possible! Students are frequently placed in a role to service the needs of the ensemble, not necessarily with an eye toward individual musical […]
Sioux Falls SD.Choral directors can achieve results in two ways: We can rehearse until we get it “right” and hope that in performance the singers will remember what was rehearsed, or a longer process is to teach core values of musical accuracy and performance practice and then in rehearsal, raise the bar and expect the singer to […]
Sioux Falls SD.How does the conductor nurture a spirit of collaboration within a choir, making singers a vital and respected part of the creative process? By giving the choir the tools to dig deeper into the music and understand the composer’s craft. Foster this conductor-singer collaboration by inviting your choir to think critically about their music, allowing […]
Sioux Falls, SDChoral directors and voice teachers at any institution of higher education have the same responsibilities and ultimate goals: the optimal education of their shared voice students. Historically, however, this relationship is often strained because choral and voice programs run at odds against each other. A coordinated approach to vocal training and to expectations of the […]
Boston MA.Literacy is the key to freedom, possibility, and advancement. Those who are literate in a collective language are able to work better together, learn from and inspire each other, achieve higher, and discover a world of previously unknown possibilities. There is nothing that is unknowable when one can read and understand a language! In this […]
Boston MA.Boston is central to the history of choral music education in America. Early eighteenth-century Bostonians advocating for the learning of music “by note” rather than “by rote” produced America’s first two music textbooks in 1721. Singing schools spread from Boston across the Northeast, spurring the compositional creativity of William Billings and other tunesmiths from the […]
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