A picture is worth a thousand words, and the picture history of the American Choral Directors Association is full of great images from ACDA's tremendous heritage. This document is now available as a digital download. It is great to be able to say the images from the publication Portraits of America: The American Choral Directors […]
ACDA to Publish International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS)
The American Choral Directors Association is honored to announce it is now the publisher of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS), adding this distinguished research journal to its existing suite of choral publications. Adding IJRCS to ACDA’s supporting cast of online resources and research publications is a partial fulfillment of one of […]
How Do You Measure a Year in the Choral Life?
In the musical Rent, Seasons of Love asks “how do you measure a year in the life?” The clinical way of doing so sounds something like “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes”, but the song rhetorically asks, how do you really measure a year in the life? Most of us are completing a […]
ACDA International Choral Academy
In this space last week I introduced some of the educational opportunities that will come along with the World Choir Games this July in Cincinnati. This week I want to direct attention specifically to the ACDA International Choral Academy, July 8-9. Among the thrilling performance and workshop offerings at the World Choir Games this summer […]
Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
The April Harvard Business Review offers a condensed version of Walter Isaacson's biography of the innovator's innovator, Steve Jobs. In the article The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs, Isaacson extracts 14 lessons leaders can glean from the life and work of Apple's Steve Jobs. These make for a great dashboard of thought and consideration […]
Exploring a U.S. Choral Voice
In 1780, future U.S. President John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, […]