ACDA has a new name for one of the R&S areas and they are talking about it.
Here is Robyn Lana, the National Chair for the newly named “Children’s and Youth Community Choirs” Repertoire and Standards Committee:
The committee proposed the title change in an attempt to be inclusive and clearly indicate who is served by this R & S area. We are proud to include our youngest training choirs in community, church, and school programs. It is our responsibility to build the foundation for the future of choral music in the United States. We are also proud to serve community youth/children’s choirs that have developed from community, church, and school programs and are not part of regular school curriculum/course offerings. To those of us active in the field, it has always been clear that “children’s choir” involves older youth as well as elementary programs. As Karen Bruno eloquently pointed out in her October 2009 Choral Journal article “Keep America’s Youth Singing,” much of the national misperception is due to the success of MENC and their service to school based curricula. Church and community programs have often been misunderstood to fit into such a mold.
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