This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio join Stan Schmidt for a special edition as he helps we all remember Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis, one of the greatest choral creators of the the 20th Century. You will hear how folk music used this towering Genius. Internationally, his fame arose chiefly from his extensive […]
A Spring Collage
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio Host Stan Schmidt creates a Spring Collage of diverse interests with choral works from Austria, Sweden, Italy, Finland, and England. Our Stiles range from the Baroque to a Swedish Composer Born in 1981. Creations are from Isfrid Kayser, Fredrik Sixten, Ippolitp Baccusi, Orazio Vecchi, Orazio Vecchi, […]
What Do you Think of These?
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt asks this question….What Do you think of these. You will hear music from India, Germany, Italy and Austria by Composers Monteverdi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and Hans Schanderl. Artists included The Miami University Men’s Glee Club, The Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Alto – […]
A Vocal Vacation
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to go on a Vocal Vacation. You can visit choirs from America, Ireland and England, displaying their talents with music by Norman Dello Joio; Thomas Weelkes; Johannes Brahms; George F. Handel; Leonard Bernstein; Johann Sebastian Bach; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plus a […]
Helping Small Amateur Choirs to Survive and Flourish
A version of this post first appeared on the OUPblog on April 21, 2017, and is reprinted with permission of Oxford University Press. Choral singing has been, for some 150 years, one of the mainstays of local music-making and entertainment in the rural regions of Britain. As Director of Music at the University of Plymouth and […]
Songs Sung In Groups
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt Presents a more relaxed atmosphere as his broadcast features Songs Sung in Groups. You will enjoy some very familiar folk melodies, and some selections on texts of William Shakespeare composed by George Shearing and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, with choirs from Canada, The United States […]