(An excerpt from the interest session, “Integrating Common-Core Learning Standards into the Choral Curriculum,” by Victoria J. Furby. Presented during the 2013 ACDA National Conference.) Changing lesson planning ideas to address the Common Core Learning Standards is presenting new challenges to integrate literacy into the choral music classroom. Many choral music teachers are […]
Vocal Jazz Concepts for Young Choirs
(An excerpt from the interest session, "Vocal Jazz Concepts for Young Choirs," by Natalie Wilson. Presented during the 2013 ACDA National Conference.) As we choral directors strive to provide a multi-cultural program for our singers, we must include our own cultural music – jazz. The skills that are required to learn music from other […]
Designing Dynamic Websites
(An excerpt from the interest session, “Building and Maintaining Dynamic State Websites," by Howard Meharg. Presented during the 2013 ACDA National Conference.) Websites are the “home-base” for information…the principal source for quick information and news for our constituents. We have a responsibility to communicate the ACDA message to our members. As my wife […]
Message in a Bottle
The choral season is starting to wind down. For some colleagues on the collegiate level, it’s already over. We’re currently (or about to be) consumed with the performance of final concerts, the calculation of grades, the smoothing of students’ end-of-the-year emotional melt-downs, and attending to all of the miscellany associated with shuttering a choral […]
Choral Caffeine: Choral Music and Film
Increasingly, it seems, filmmakers are turning to choral musicians as subject matter for their films. We have shared a number of examples in this space, and several movies were featured in a film festival format during the recent ACDA National Conference in Dallas. Here is a new short film from Michael Stillwater (producer of […]
GUEST BLOG: “Thanks Dad!” by Mike Doan
THANKS, DAD! by Mike Doan On a train journey carrying the San Francisco Opera Company cast to Los Angeles, the small child climbed on the lap of the famous singer, Salvatore Baccaloni. “So, young man,” said the well-known vocalist. “Are you going to be a tenor like your father when you grow up?” […]