Friends and Colleagues, it is with sadness that I report the death yesterday of my dear friend Sandra Chapman of Fort Madison, Iowa.  Sandra was the editor of the ACDA Journal for many years.  (As a high schooler, I remember mock-ups spread all over the Chapman’s dining room when deadlines approached.)  Sandra was a force […]

ACCC Student Chapter is looking for submissions for their RESEARCH FORUM, held during the Podium National Conference 2012.   When: Sunday, May 20, 2012; 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Where: Lord Elgin Hotel; Ottawa, ON   This is a chance for students researching choral music to deliver informal presentations of their projects’ abstracts. Research may be on-going […]

For Immediate Release 12pm April 9, 2012     Contact Info: PerformOUTKC Elven Hickmon Business Manager Phone: 816-659–7899 www.performoutkc.org Kansas City, Missouri, April 9th 2012 – PerformOUTKC is thrilled to announce Michelle A McIntire as its new Artistic Director & Conductor. Mrs. McIntire is a music educator, voice and piano coach and conductor. We […]

By Ryan Howe   EVANSVILLE, IN — Six girls stand behind podiums waiting for their choir director, Robert Nicholls, to announce the page number for “Hallelujah.” They stand, eyeing the competition, fingers dangling over their closed music books. Each one is ready to fling open the book to be the first one on the right page. […]

By Michael Birnbaum   LEIPZIG —  For 800 years, the St. Thomas Boys Choir has been filling churches with pure, young voices. Now it’s confronting a confounding phenomenon: Every year, those voices are cracking with teenage angst just a little earlier than before. Other boys choirs have been noticing it, too, as an unrelenting march of […]