(From the Choral Journal article, “Choral Evaluation Survival Techniques,” by Bradlet Olesen.) In this current climate of change, we owe it to our profession to be leaders and believers in what has been given to us in the national standards. Just as MENC and ACDA have been at the forefront of educating standards, […]
Monday Motivation: How We Forget
CJ Replay: Ensemble Evaluation
CJ Replay: Mozart Goes to the Birds
(From the Choral Journal article “Adding Birds to Mozart’s ‘Sparrow Mass’: An Arrangement with Children’s Instruments,” by Paul Wranitzky.) The birdcalls play not only specific pitches, but also characteristic rhythms and, in the case of the cuckoo, a characteristic melodic idea. The quail plays the three-note rhythmic pattern familiar from Beethoven’s imitation of […]
Choral Caffeine: Now What?
The 2011-12 academic year is in the history books, or it soon will be. If we’ve done our jobs right, we are completely spent. We left it on the field, or in our case on the stage. We. Are. Exhausted. It’s time to take a break; to free our minds, hearts and souls. I […]
Now Available from iTunes . . .
You can now enjoy Portraits of America: The American Choral Directors Association on your favorite digital device! This book recounts the development of ACDA from the middle of the 1950s through its first 50 years of phenomenal growth. Written by Christina Prucha and Tim Sharp, the book offers a never-before seen peek at important photos […]