In February 2016, ACDA’s Fund for Tomorrow awarded Delaware ACDA one of its inaugural grants to shine a light on choirs that effect social change in inner cities.Over the past year and a half, Delaware ACDA, the Choir School of Delaware, and composer Dr. Rollo Dilworth have worked together to commission a new work celebrating […]
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What is Really Important?
This session will highlight an octogenarian’s perspective on the choral art in America and share fond memories of ACDA’s first and subsequentnational conventions in Kansas City, Missouri.
unCONVENTional: Giving Voice to the Silenced
For choral conductor/educators on the hunt for hidden gems, music by seventeenth-century Italian women presents an untapped gold mine. Convents were hotbeds of musical activity, housing internationally renowned choirs and composers whose beautiful, accessible music has been buried in libraries for centuries. This session will introduce the music written by four of these Italian women […]
Toward Lifelong Singing: Working with Older Adult Voices
One of the great gifts of choral singing is that it can be a lifelong pursuit. As singers age, however,their abilities and their needs change.Vocal changes, though perhaps the most obvious, are only part of the picture. This session describes the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social changes that singers commonly experience as they grow older, […]
Tell Your Story: Make the Case
The choral arts are leading and modeling education initiatives,which are often about project-based learning, sequencing, creative and portfolio evaluations, and rubrics. Choirs help students develop skills and bring those skills to the next level. How can we tell our story, bringing it to administrators and the public eye, in a way that educates our community […]
Tarik O’Regan: Orchestrating Voices
Orchestration has long been an independent, yet integrated, compositional discipline closely connected with the writing of instrumental music. In this exploratory session, with a focus on O’Regan’s choral repertoire, he will investigate how the increasingly varying textural effects achieved through myriad instrumental permutations, which continue to further the genres of chamber and orchestral composition today, […]
