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

January 2003

Download the complete issue. Convention 2003 Inside Convention Overview Red Schedule White Schedule Blue Schedule Headliners International Choirs Honor Choirs Music and Worship Auditioned Choirs Interest Sessions R & S Roundtables Brock Memorial Commission Brock Student Competition Student Conducting Competition



December 2002

Download the complete issue. Articles Medievalism in Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe de mortes by Ronald Kean The American Choral Tapestry Part II: Setting America’s Bard by David P. DeVenney Balance or Blend? Two Approaches to Choral Singing by Perry Smith



November 2002

Download the complete issue. Articles Berlioz’s Napoleonic Te deum by Hugh Macdonald Berlioz’s Vocal Music: Some Programming Ideas by Melinda O’Neal Volcanic Eruptions: Berlioz and His Grande Messe des morts by Donna M. Di Grazia



October 2002

Download the complete issue. Articles The Rehearsal Techniques of Margaret Hillis: Their Development and Application to the Brahms German Requiem by Cheryl Frazes Hill Modal Analysis for Choral Conductors by Chester Alwes



September 2002

Download the complete issue. Articles Hanaqpachaq: The First Polyphonic Work Published (and Composed?) in the New World by Oscar Escalada Louis Vierne’s Messe Solennelle by Joseph T. Rawlins Accompanying Your Choir with the Hammered Dulcimer by Lucille Reilly



August 2002

Download the complete issue. Articles Twentieth-Century Brazilian Choral Music by Vladimir Silva Baltic Portraits: Estonia’s Musical Architect Erkki-Sven Tuur by Vance Wolverton Operatically Trained Singers in the Collegiate Choral Rehearsal by John Weiss