Call for Papers: National Symposium on American Choral Music

The American Choral Directors Association Research and Publications Committee is inviting research papers to be presented at the National Symposium on American Choral Music, June 29-30, 2012, to be held in Washington, DC. This event will showcase the American Choral Music website hosted by the Library of Congress, built as a result of a five-year  collaboration with ACDA. The choral music on the site focuses on the period 1870-1923.

The Symposium theme is “Searching for an American Musical Style, Then and Now,” exploring works at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The centerpiece concert of the Symposium will take place at the historic Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress, June 30, 2012, 2 p.m. In addition to invited choirs, ACDA is inviting paper presentations, composer panels, and scholarly panels during the weekend Symposium.

ACDA invites interested scholars to present proposals for paper presentations at the Symposium. These proposals (2-3 pages), should address American choral music at the turn of the twentieth century (the subject of the LOC website) or the choral works of American composers writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. The papers will be included in the published proceedings of the Symposium.

Send paper proposals to Dr. John Silantien, Department of Music, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX  78249. Electronic submissions can be e-mailed to    Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2011.