Thanks for listening to our U.S. broadcast premiere last week. If you missed it, look for the Going Beyond Words post for August 30 and relive Oratorium Nativitatis by Damijan Močnik. Next for your listening interest, Stan Schmidt, host for Going Beyond Words on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, adds another show to stretch your thinking. […]
From Antiquity to the Contemporary: The Story of the Choir Robe
By Richard Clark In their simplest form, choir robes and choral garments have been in existence since antiquity. The notion of a uniformed collective of singers extends almost as far back as civilization itself to the Ancient Greeks, as portrayed on classic ceramics and earthenware. The format of figures wearing similar, loosely fitting tunics, intermingled […]
Cantate Domino
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio, Stan Schmidt invites you to investigate a comparison of motets based on Psalms 95 or 96 under the title “O Come, Let us Sing unto the Lord” (Cantate Domino). You can hear how twelve different composes created their interpretations of these Psalms of Praise
Sounds of Praise and Reformation
This fall we celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and the Music of Martin Luther. Host Stan Schmidt starts us moving in that direction for our next Going Beyond Words broadcast on ACDA Radio. Also, please examine the informative article in the August 2017 of the Choral Journal on page 36 by Zebulon M. Highben from Muskingum University titled “Reviving Sacred Song – 500 years of the Lutheran Chorale and its congregational and Choral Contexts”
High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to tune up your Banjo, Violin and String Bass and prepare yourselves for a musical treat based on some of this country’s most popular gospel and hymn melodies. “Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass” by Wes Ramsey and Dr. Tim Sharp, Executive Director of the ACDA will be the feature work on the program.
Christmas In July
Join host Stan Schmidt this week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio for his annual Christmas In July show. There are eleven selections that take you from the Medieval style to the glorious sounds of 2017. You will hear works by Anna von Köln from the year 1500; the opening number from the Nativity […]