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.
This session will help teachers to establish or develop a choir in the elementary school and will answer the following questions. What age or grade level is best to start choral singing? What is the best range for students at this age? How can you fit a choir into a general music program or the […]
Fort Wayne IN.This presentation is a fast-paced, interactive, educational, and entertaining introduction to Bulgarian music. It is an examination of Bulgarian musical folklore, its characteristics according to song types, folklore regions, rhythm and meter, scales, and modes. Specific examples will illustrate the performance practice of Bulgarian music. The attendees will experience the joy of learning and performing […]
Fort Wayne IN.This session has been designed to inform teachers working with adolescent singers. Discussion will feature practical and applicable techniques for working with and meeting the needs of this student population. Emphasis will be placed on teacher awareness of key adolescent characteristics including the adolescent ego, the impact of emotional components of the adolescent choral student, […]
Fort Wayne IN.Using the forces of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, and student soloists, this session will identify for the conductor the necessary steps and important considerations in the rehearsal process of Bach’s masterwork. The session will illuminate the conductor’s tasks in initial, separate rehearsals of the chorus, orchestra, and soloists […]
Fort Wayne IN.The music of Poland’s leading late Renaissance composers reveal much about the important relationship between Poland and Italy during the seventeenth century, and the striking influence the Italianate style had on Polish composers of the time. Mikolaj Zielenski, most notably, may have even studied with Giovanni Gabrieli; his choral works display typical Venetian influence, but […]
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