Did you know that Beethoven was the first composer to write a song cycle (although Beethoven called it a ring of songs) and that Mass in C is one of his most popular works? Join Stan Schmidt, host of Going Beyond Words, to hear both works. Dr. William George August McCullough, in his doctoral dissertation […]
From Fancie to Fancies
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio on ChoralNet you will hear four fantastic ensembles presenting music from the Renaissance to our present time. On the table are folk songs and love songs, plus melodies about flowing tears and crows and clusters. First you will enjoy selections from one of the first CDs […]
Requiem by Heinrich von Herzogenberg
The feature on this issue of Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio is a marvelous piece of Romantic style music written in 1891 by the great Austrian composer Heinrich von Herzogenberg. He like many fine composers began to study a law degree but in the midst of his legal studies was compelled to change […]
Attention to Some Military Bands and Choir
We just celebrated another Memorial Day and we think of those who serve our country around the earth and here at home. As the host of Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio with ChoralNet, I love to play patriotic music and when you want that style we all know where to go. But this year […]
Veni Creator Spiritus
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio, Host Stan Schmidt presents an hour of music that will take you from the mid-1400s to our present history. Our broadcast will examine how composers over centuries have used the glorious Latin texts of Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit) and Creator Alme Siderum (Creator […]
Sir Edward Elgar and Friends
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio, host Stan Schmidt gives us another look at an English composer who had a great gift of melody and was a super orchestrator. We investigate several of the composer’s choral songs and a recent Naxos CD that features mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in a performance of […]