This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to celebrate a composer who ranks right up with Johann Sebastian Bach. He was born in 1567, his Name Claudio Monteverdi….The question is?….how can you do justice in just 59 minutes?…..well you can’t …..but your ear will gather in music from two Operas […]
With Thanks and Gratitude
This week, Stan Schmidt, Host of Going Beyond Words offers to listeners on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet and opportunity to give Thanks and express Gratitude…..Writer Susan Palo Cherwien in her Reflections for Worship book “From Glory Into Glory” says “In a thousand voices, in a thousand faces…God’s goodness I proclaimed…In maple colored hillsides, in dappled […]
Music Is an Anchor for Our Lives . . . Reflections with Dr. John Leavitt
By Tom Price, Sechrist Travel The following is an edited version of a post originally appearing on Sechrist Travel’s newest blog series Modern Measures. To view the full post, visit https://sechristtravel.com/2017/11/07/dr-john-leavitt/. Recently, Sechrist Travel had the honor of speaking with a man who, although well-known and admired, humbly spoke of music and performance in a way […]
The Songs of Farewell by Hubert Parry
This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to an hour of significant Choral Music by a highly respected and revered British Composer whose centenary will be celebrated in 2018 along with end of WWI…..He was a composer, teacher and Historian of Music. You will hear the famous “Jerusalem”, a piece […]
Serious World Choral Enunciations (Encore Performance)
This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to an Encore performance of a program titles “Serious World Choral Enunciations”. You can recall a song of Praise based on Psalm 96 by Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw (1929-2000) performed by the Kölner Kantorei directed by Volker Hempfling; A Memorial for those who […]
Westward Ho! Songs of the American Cowboy
This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Stan Schmidt, Host of Going Beyond Words presents a history lesson looking back 150 years for a view of our Westward expansion and the music that went along with the growth of the United States. Do you know the state song of Kansas? Well you’ll hear that too […]