This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt helps us focus on your love of the Divine, Family and Country. He adds a hour of significant music designed to lift your spirits and points you on to a wonderful Holiday season. As you visit with loved ones you will enjoy such groups as […]
10 Ways Choral Programs Can Prepare for #GivingTuesday and End of Year Fundraising
By Amy Zucchi, Edco (an ACDA partner) This year, there are two things music lovers are doing: seeing Bohemian Rhapsody at the movies and donating to their favorite music organizations for #GivingTuesday. Now that they’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody, they’re coming to donate. Are you prepared? #GivingTuesday, the biggest donation day of the year, is happening […]
Intimations of Immortality
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt brings to the forefront the music of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) with a Shakespeare song from his collection called Let Garlands Bring written for the birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams on his birthday, October 12, 1942. Then you will enjoy three selections from his Op 17 […]
Ernest Bloch Avodath Hakodesh Sacred Service
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt invites you to take time to pause and remember those members of the Jewish community of Pittsburgh who were killed while attending worship in their synagogue. The sacred side of the classical repertory does not offer a great deal that speaks directly to […]
Reflecting on the Past and the Future (All Saints Day)
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt presents a way to tell a musical story and the subject is All Saints Day, another way to look at programming. You will recall two selections from Brahms German Requiem using the English translation by Robert Shaw plus a 1878 publication of O Heiland, reiss […]
A Reformation Salute
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt invites you to hear a Reformation Salute. You will compare three versions of Ein Feste Burg of Martin Luther. The first arranged by John Ferguson, then a setting by Telemann and lastly, the famous one by Johann Sebastian Bach. Also programmed are two […]