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June/July 2025

-The Sacred Choral Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
-Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
-SCT Choral Reviews
-Collaborative Singing for Female Adolescents
-An Interview with Sally Stevens
-Helping Students Create Meaning Through Text
-Strategies for Early-Career Teachers (Part 2)
-2025 Robert Shaw Award Recognition
-Choral Journal Index to Vol 65

IJRCS Volume 13

In this issue:
 Melodic Recall: Qualitative Insights on Singers’ Strategies for Memorizing Scores of Simple Songs (M. Timoshenko-Nilsson)
 Sacred Concert and Spirituals Selections in a 2021-2022 School Choral Catalog (A. Trites)
 Online Social Comparison and Impostor Phenomenon Among Choral Music Educators (T. Rinn)
 Essence of Joy: Empathy in an Afrocentric Collegiate Choral Ensemble at a Predominately White Institution (A. Norrid)
 The Effects of Computerized Feedback on Sight-Singing Achievement (A. White)
 Singers’ Responses to Congruent and Incongruent Verbal and Nonverbal Instructions (M. Grady, J. Manternach, M. Brunkan, J. Napoles)

ChorTeach 2025

-Developing Black-Belt Choral Musicians
-Cultivating Tone with Your Middle School Choir
-Strategies for the Vocal Jazz Ensemble
-From Groans to Grins: A Play-Based Approach to Teaching Music Literacy

May 2025

-Cultivating Tone with Your Middle School Choir
-A Conductor’s Guide to the Music of Hildegard von Bingen
-Promoting and Preserving Women in the Field of Choral Conducting
-Sustainability Considerations for Nonprofit Music Organizations
-Building Community Among Conductors
-IJRCS Vol 12 Abstracts
-Developing Black-Belt Choral Musicians

March/April 2025

-Writing Music in the Sacred Harp Tradition
-Serge Jaroff’s Don Cossack Choir
-A Conversation with Pearl Shangkuan
-Teach Expression First! Applying Research Results to the Rehearsal
-Mindfully Approaching Choral Tone
-Reflections from Our 2023 ACDA National
Conference Insight Session
-ACDA Archives at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
-2025 Summer Festival and Workshop Listings

February 2025

Full program and daily schedule of the 2025 ACDA National Conference.