American Choral Directors Association

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May 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Choral Music from La Belle Epoque: Reynaldo Hahn’s Douze Rondels by Debra Spurgeon Randall Thompson, An American Choral Icon by Joseph Thomas Rawlins Celebrating Fifty Years of Choral Artistry: An Interview with Donald Neuen by Alan Raines Virtual Roundtable, part 2: More advice from choir tour professionals by Nina Gilbert

April 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Out of the Shadows:  Veljo Tormis, Voice of Estonia and Forgotten Peoples by Erik Reid Jones Baltic Portraits:  Melngailis, Latvian Composer, Choirmaster, and Folklorist by Vance D. Wolverton Using Video Self-Assessment to Enhance Nonverbal Conducting Gesture by Alan C. McClung

March 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Modal Symmetry and Textual Symbolism in the Credo of the Stravinsky Mass by Edward Lundergan Alice Parker on Music Training in High Education by David Poole The Choral Works of Phillip Barnette Mcintyre by Roy Belfield, Jr.

February 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Virtual Roundtable: Advice from Choir Travel Professionals The Whole World in Your Hands: A Do-It-Yourself Tour Planning Guide by Daniel R. Craig Choral Pioneers: Cultural Exchange with Shipibo Villagers in Peru by Luanne Clarke Crosby What if . . . : Dealing With the Unexpected on Tour

January 2005

Download the complete issue. Convention Previews Overview Honor Choirs Performing Groups Interest Sessions R and S Breakfast Roundtables

IJRCS Volume 2

In this issue:
 Editorial: On Pursuing Unusually Stubborn and Persisting Efforts to Think by the
Intelligent Gathering and Use of Data (J. F. Daugherty)
 Choral Sight-Singing Practices: Revisiting a Web-Based Survey (S. M. Demorest)
 Select Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Choral Formation (C. Aspaas, C. R.
McCrea, R. J. Morris, & L. Fowler)
 The Effect of Various Left-hand Conducting Gestures on Perceptions of
Anticpated Vocal Tension in Singers (R. J. Vieth Fuelberth)
 Update on Community Choir Singing in the United States (C. L. Bell)
 An Historical View of Barbershop Music and the Sight-Reading Methodology and
Learning Practices of Early Championship Barbershop Quartet Singers, 1939-
1963 (B. C. Ayling)