This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio, Host Stan Schmidt introduces us to a new voice and a new choir to Western audiences. Estonian Pärt Uusberg (b. 1986) is a well-known film actor, as well as a composer. In 2017, the Collegium Musicale carried the coveted Silver Rose Bowl of the EBU […]
Welcome to Spring and some Love Songs
After all the music of the Lenten Season and the Celebrations of Passover and Easter Host Stan Schmidt reaches into his bag of CD’s delivers and an hour of songs that Welcome the Spring with several Love Songs. The Artists on this program include the Choral Scholars of the University College of Dublin, The Helsinki […]
Et Resurrexit (Easter Sunday)
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt goes back one more time into his archives for a program that was aired on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012. This broadcast opens and concludes with music from Handel’s oratorio “Messiah,” with the score proclaiming that “He Has Risen.” For this, you will […]
A Palm Sunday Hosanna
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt goes back into his archives for a program that was aired on Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011. Along with the two very popular motets by Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Weelkes, you will hear the following: “Hosanna to the Song of David,” performed by […]
The Seven Last Words by Théodore Dubois
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt brings on stage four significant composers whose musical gifts are enduring and treasured. One of these composers won the Prix De Rome prize for composition and in 1867 wrote his very expressive work “The Seven Last Words.” He was well known in France, […]
Reflections on Psalms 121, 91 and 128
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt brings you music called Reflections on Psalms 121,91, &128. You will hear seven settings of Psalm 121, a Jewish Prayer or Kaddish and interpretations of Psalms 91, 128 and verses from Psalm 34, including musical suggestions from nine different composers and selections from Mendelssohn’s Oratorio […]