Frank Albinder, pictured here with Eric Whitacre, pointed me to this story about how music and singing is helping Rep. Gabielle Giffords recover from the gunshot: Since Giffords was transferred to TIRR Jan. 21, reports of her singing "Happy Birthday" for husband Mark Kelly and Don McLean's "American Pie" have signaled what some have called […]
ACDA Chicago 2011 – Day Two
Another great day to be in Chicago for ACDA 2011. It is the end of a long day that included definite highlights: University of St. Thomas and director Angela Broeker gave a refined and elegant concert today – their best work was on the Monteverdi Ecco and Le Pont Mirabeau by Lionel Daunais. […]
Millikin and Brad Holmes – A Second Conference Triumph
Brad Holmes and his Millikin University Choir did it again – another stunning performance involving incredible musicianship, humor, passion, creativity, and tonal variety. This is what you hope to find at a national conference – a stellar choir performing at their very best. They took the stage quickly and sang an energetic performance […]
ACDA Chicago 2011 Begins
It is exciting times for ACDA in Chicago as the conference begins this morning. ChoralNet is here tweeting and blogging and planning and listening. A few reminders for people who are attending the conference: We have Google Calendars for both Gold and Scarlet tracks. Many are tweeting! #ACDA2011 Join the conversation! Tim Sharp’s blog about the […]
Tweeting ACDA 2011
I hope most of the ChoralNet membership is traveling to Chicago today for a spectacular National ACDA Conference. I expect that we'll be blogging multiple times a day about the conference, so check into ChoralNet often for some official updates. If you want to take part in the conversation about ACDA Chicago, you […]
Our Scholar-Executive Director Tim Sharp
ACDA is fortunate to have an Executive Director who is also a published scholar – see this new publication from Pendragon Press entitled "Jubilate, Amen!" A description of the book: Many facets of Donald P. Hustad's distinguished career as professor, author, and church musician are celebrated in this volume by 29 peers and former […]