This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to a visit with British Composer John Rutter and lets you hear three selection never heard on Going Beyond Words. About 1984 I received a call from my friend John Rutter. He said that he has just developed his own record company (Collegium […]
From Both Sides of the Pond
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt brings to your attention the ACDA Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission project that has been on going since 1991. Then he takes you to Rotterdam, the Netherlands for a listen to a stunning 30 minute A Cappella Requiem by Dutch Composer Daniel de Lange. Thus […]
The Sacred and Secular Johann Sebastian Bach
This week on GBW and ACDA ChoralNet Radio your host Stan Schmidt has a visit called the sacred and secular J.S. Bach. Your will hear the only Bach cantata written for Bass and Harpsichord…it’s called Oh Treacherous Love. You will also enjoy two Dialogue Cantatas for Soprano, Bass and Orchestra….Plus two great choruses from some […]
Bending Toward the Light – A Jazz Nativity
It all began in 1986 when The Rev. John Gensel, the Jazz Minister at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at Citycorp ask New York Musician Anne Phillips to write “A Jazz Nativity”. The result?…Bending Toward the Light – A Jazz Nativity…..plus.. hundreds of Jazz Musicians and thousands of audience members have experienced this great expression from […]
In Memoriam Robert Romeo DeCormer, Jr.
Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet invites you to another In Memoriam broadcast as we salute one of America’s most revered and adored conductors, director, arranger, and teacher. Listen to hear why he was appreciated so much by so many other musicians. Robert Romeo DeCormier, Jr., an arranger for folk and pop stars died on November 7, […]
Christmas In July
Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet invites you to the annual GBW Christmas in July broadcast. You will hear 16 recordings by 16 composers from 10 countries…..Listen and see how many you know. Here are some of the Choirs Concordia College of Moorhead The Slovenian Chamber Choir; Kansas City Choral; The St. Catharine’s Chirs’ Choir […]