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 introduce conference attendees to the rich culture and traditions of vocal and choral music in Tanzania and provide performance practice techniques for authentic and exciting performances. Information will be presented through lecture, video of Tanzanian choirs, and performance by the Northern Illinois University Chamber Choir. Rev. Sululu comes to America with a […]
Fort Wayne IN.Renaissance choral scores, often with few or no helpful performance suggestions, can lead to shapeless, uninspired delivery of this beautiful and expressive music, leaving audiences and choirs non-plussed, and conductors discouraged in their efforts to educate, inform and entertain. In this hands-on session, Schauer will lead participants to examine and re-think performance of sacred and […]
Reno NV.Going beyond the common performance of an anthem, reaching to new heights of expression, this session will explore the many different ways a choir might participate in the corporate worship experience. Using not only sound, but also space and structure as well, we will look into and perform different ways of orchestrating praise and forming […]
Dallas, TXThis session will include a multimedia presentation of the history, composers, songs, and performance practices of the Negro Spiritual with a comparison to Gospel and the likenesses and differences of the two styles. The Palmetto Voices, directed by Sonja Sepúlveda, will demonstrate by singing arrangements, old and new, that the Spiritual is an unique American […]
Winston-Salem, NCToday’s performers imagine that modern ideas about how to perform Romantic music correspond with what the composers themselves would have heard. But in recent years, restoration of many early recordings and research into various written sources have revealed a very different picture. A lost tradition of nineteenth-century interpretation is currently being re-discovered by a number […]
Winston-Salem, NC
