World Choral Day December 12, 2010

Tim Sharp, ACDA

Join thousands of choirs around the world as we join together in the celebration of World Choral Day on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Millions of singers across the globe have been involved in World Choral Day concerts, festivals, sing-alongs, choral seminars, Days of Friendship and other events that celebrate our unity in choral music.

The American Choral Directors Association along with the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) views World Choral Day as an important opportunity to promote the social values of choral singing and invites the choirs of the United States to join the world in celebration across the globe. Share your activities on the IFCM website and on Youtube.

IFCM invites you to announce your World Choral Day activities – and to report to IFCM about the event afterwards:

• Share your events and performances by writing to   Let IFCM know the events you are taking part in, or organizing, how many people participate, where the event is taking place, and who is responsible for the event.

• Let IFCM know afterwards how the event went and any stories or reflections from the event.

The International Federation for Choral Music will publish filmed recordings of the events on their special World Choral Day channel on Youtube.

Please take note of the following recommendations:

• The maximum length of any uploaded film is 15 minutes

• Please save your video in a format that YouTube can accept. Unless you’re a professional video producer, we recommend that you save your videos as either QuickTime .MOV, Windows.AVI, or .MPG files – these are the most common formats and they work well within the Youtube system. Youtube specifically recommends the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640×480 resolution with MP3 audio. Please resize your video to these specifications
before sending them to us at

• IFCM will upload them on Youtube for you

• Watch your own and your colleagues’ contribution on  www.youtube.com/WorldChoralDay

Themes

The IFCM announces themes for World Choral Day.

In the year 2010 the theme will be “The rapprochement of cultures”. This is the United Nations theme for 2010 (also see http://portal.unesco.org/culture and look for rapprochement) and it also fits our aims with the World Choral Day. A proclamation written for the World Choral Day is usually read during the events. It has been translated into eight different languages and is available for download from the IFCM website.

Thank you for making a case for Choral Music on World Choral Day!

You can contact us at

Coordinators

Cristian Grases (All America and the Caribbean)
Jeroen Schrijner (Europe and Africa)
Catalina Prieto (Asia and South Pacific)