Dan Kreider has another thoughtful blog post up, this one daring to go into communication with the audience: Simply put, art is perception. Although many 20th-century composers adopted the mantra of Milton Babbitt (“Who cares if you listen?”) and often ignored their audience completely, the inescapable fact remains that the essence of art is not […]
Ten things you don’t know about Bach
I had heard some of these before: 6. Bach married twice. The first to his cousin, Maria, the second marriage was to Anna Magdalena Wülkens. However, it is now believed that he also had relations with and fathered children of a local bar maid called Helga Schümaker, who bore him an unknown number of […]
The Future of Choral Music in Sacred Spaces
Here is news of an exciting seminar offered in October that explores the future of choral music in church as well as how to be a choral musician – more proof that ACDA is about more than conferences and journals these days. Here is the message of the conference: “A unique affirming learning experience […]
Composers Forum This Summer
ACDA has announced an exciting opportunity for composers and church musicians this summer – once again proving that ACDA is much more than one convention a year! Look here for a compelling place to learn the art of composition with composers Chen Yi and Steven Sametz as well as hear your works performed by the Princeton […]
We don’t know how to listen
ChoralNet member Dan Kreider talks here about “listening.” What’s the most powerful piece of music you’ve heard only once? I’ve begun devoting a significant portion of class time to listening. By now my students know the drill: no talking, no noise, focus on evaluating what you hear… and (often) close your eyes. Then I tell […]
Alamire Magic
From the 2009 ACDA National Conference: