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.

Choral Journal

March 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles Musica: The Evolution of a Library by Michael Shasberger Practical Applications of ChoralNet in the Choral Methods Class by Galen Darrough Choral Music and Print on demand by Tim Sharp Recording Your Choir by Charles L. Fuller



February 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles A Preview of the American Choral Directors Association Robert Shaw Institute for Choral Music by Gene Brooks Thematic Transformation in Mendelssohn’s Lobegesang by John Curtis Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast: A Masterly Storytelling by Ryan Kelly The Centenary Year of Unding Smith Moore: Dean of Black Women Composers by Philip Burnelle



January 2004

Download the entire issue. Divisions Eastern Division Convention Preview Western Division Convention Preview Central Division Convention Preview Southern Division Convention Preview Northwestern Division Convention Preview



December 2003

Download the complete issue. Articles The Magnificent Rise and Call of ACDA (1959 to 2003) by Gene Brooks Brahms and the “Clara Emblem”: Musical Allusion as a Key to Understanding the Thematic Sources at the Heart of Ein deutsches Requiem by James John Divo Aloysio Sacrum: James MacMillan’s Early Motet as Exemplar of His Mature […]



November 2003

Download the complete issue. Articles The Larger Sacred Works of Alan Hovhaness by David W. Music The Text Trap by Kirke Mechem Perspectives on John Corigliano’s A Dylan Thomas Trilogy by Alfred S. Townsend



October 2003

Download the complete issue. Articles The Style of Meditation: The Choral Music of Rihards Dubra by Kevin Smith Rhetoric and Drama in Schutz’s St. Matthew Passion by Stephen A. Kingsbury Connecting the Inner Ear and the Voice by Eric Johnson