The week on the ACDA Network Radio and ChoralNet, Stan Schmidt, Host of Going Beyond Words offers you eight choral selections that carry Lenten and Passion implications. You can engage in listening to seasonal music by Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt, King John the IV of Portugal, Movement I from James MacMillian’s “Seven Last Words”, Bach’s “Crucifixus” from the […]
Have Mercy Upon Me O Lord
This week Going Beyond Words on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet approaches Lenten show #3. On this sacred billboard chart are eight appropriate selections by such composers as Brahms, Schütz, William Boyce, William Byrd and Chandos #3 by George Frideric Handel. Many of the scores you will find very familiar which can be a rich experience. […]
The Armenian Genocide, Mansurian Requiem : Lent II
This week Going Beyond Words on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet continues a Lenten approach. First from a new CD dealing with the topic of “Tenebrae – Music for Meditation and Contemplation” by German Male Ensemble Amarcord they offer “Da Pacem Domine” (Give Peace In our Time) by Johann Walter…….Next is one of several new selections that Judith […]
Blessed Are the Pure In Heart Lent 1
This week Going Beyond Words returns to the season of Lent to present on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet seven different choral ensembles, six from the United States, one from England and one from Belgiam; plus a contralto that was one of the most recognizable voices singing spirituals, Marian Anderson with “I Want Jesus to Walk with […]
Music of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Knut Nystedt, & Max Reger
This week Going Beyond Words returns to present on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet three composers whose styles will take you through the post JS Bach era to the end of the 20th century. The first composer lived a long fruitful life of 99 years and Stan Schmidt your host was very fortunate to have Norwegian born […]
A Page from The American Song Book
This week Going Beyond Words Host Stan Schmidt brings back to ACDA Radio and ChoralNet show he did on April 7, 2013….sort of a Valentine recall and offers choir directors an hour of music by Composers responsible for pages in the American Song Book. It’s best that you make a cup of Hot Coco put […]