(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Prickly Puzzles and Daunting Dilemmas: Facing Fate, Fear, and Family – Part 3,” by Sally Schneider.) I immediately recall conversations and observations of my past ten student teachers, spanning fifteen years of choral music education in urban high schools. What worked and what hadn’t worked for […]
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Over 300 published pages spread across several issues of the Choral Journal. Multiple hundreds of postings on ChoralNet, ACDA’s website, ACDA divisional & state sites, and the Association’s various sundry web properties. Incalculable numbers of calls, e-mails, and mailings; to say nothing of the unfathomable amount of individual commentary on various social media sites. Now […]
Mission Possible . . . and Essential! Part 1: Composition
The mission of the American Choral Directors Association is to inspire excellence in choral music through education, performance, composition, and advocacy. Rare is the choral conductor who has not longed to be able to talk with a Mozart, or a Brahms, or a Bach. As ‘re-creators’ of their music, we would hang on every […]