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.
The Bach Vespers at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Terrace Park, Ohio, is a service of evening prayer centered on the cantatas of J. S. Bach. As an expression of worship rooted in the creative arts, the service offers aesthetic beauty, religious devotion, and a strengthened community musical life. This session will offer an overview […]
Salt Lake City UT.ACDA’s Second National Symposium on American Choral Music will be held June 12–13, 2015, in Austin, Texas. It will focus on Latin American choral music of the colonial and modern periods, featuring some of the leading composers, scholars, and conductors in that field. This session will highlight the headliners, ensembles, and workshops to be featured […]
Salt Lake City UT.This session explores the music of Romani (Gypsy) Choirs of Ukraine and Russia from folk tradition to professional ensemble to discover the artistic value, gratifying performance experience, and pedagogical applications of Romani music. Elements of vocal production, performance intensity, improvisation, and theater will be presented, and the audience will sing examples from the repertoire. The […]
Salt Lake City UT.To sing for fun without pressure now and then during rehearsals and choir camps can be very profitable and create a positive atmosphere. This workshop will concentrate on things that you normally do not have time to do in the rehearsals: improvisations, ostinati, small canons, fun songs with choreography, various amusing intonation exercises, and small […]
Salt Lake City UT.The choral canon offers a seemingly small amount of Renaissance music originally written for women’s voices. However, a surge in musicological research over the last thirty years provides evidence that women in the Renaissance were engaged in active musical expression and reveals a wealth of repertoire that was performed by women’s ensembles in the sixteenth […]
Salt Lake City UT.This session will provide a brief overview/history of the Psalms and their devotional centrality, discuss various methods of singing them, suggest ways the choir can engage a congregation’s intellect and imagination, and propose how a specific worshiping community can develop their own distinct methods of Psalm-singing based on local context. Additionally, participants will discuss the […]
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