SERVICEABLE FUNERAL ANTHEMS by Thomas Vozzella What to sing at a funeral when your choir is asked to offer choral music…do your ensembles have anthems at the ready? Many of us do not have selections prepared for funerals, especially early in our careers. The last thing on our minds, as young conductors, is preparing music […]
Monday Motivation: Maintain Perspective
GUEST BLOG: “Serviceable Funeral Anthems” by Thomas Vozzella
Stick Time: Would You Prefer the “Cafetorium”?
Let’s play “What If?” You’re a high school choir director in a small mid-western town, striving daily with limited resources to provide the best possible choral education for your students. Your school performance space is – to put it mildly – an acoustical disaster. But wait! The church just down the block has beautiful […]
Stick Time: Art Responds to Horror
Just when one thinks one has seen all the horrors that terrorists have to offer, those who prefer death over discourse find new ways to astonish and appall us. In the wake of tragedy in France, politicians make bold yet empty pronouncements, believing somehow that another investigation or blue-ribbon commission will salve a blind hatred […]
ACDA Salutes: William Dawson
This is just one of the 74 choral conductors on the ACDA Wall of Honor. LEARN MORE about the Wall of Honor and MEET ALL of the award recipients.