Going Beyond Words

This week Going Beyond Words returns to present on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet three composers whose styles will take you through the post JS Bach era to the end of the 20th century.    The first composer lived a long fruitful life of 99 years and Stan Schmidt your host was very fortunate to have Norwegian born […]

This week Going Beyond Words Host Stan Schmidt brings back to ACDA Radio and ChoralNet show he did on April 7, 2013….sort of a Valentine recall and offers choir directors an hour of music by Composers responsible for pages in the American Song Book.   It’s best that you make a cup of Hot Coco put […]

This week Going Beyond Words is pleased to present on ACDA Radio and Choral Net two choral ensembles from the United States and a world-class professional choir from Belgium.   First your will hear the 33 members of the Brigham Young University Singers under the baton of Andrew Crane.   They will show their choral talent with […]

Going Beyond Words host, Stan Schmidt takes the time to present another Choral Concert Live for ACDA Radio and Choral Net.   Several weeks ago the administrators for Polonia Cantat sent me nine mp3 files of some of the winning choirs that sang in Polish festivals 2011 to 2013.  As part of this broadcast you will […]

Going Beyond Words host, Stan Schmidt, goes back into his archives to bring listeners of ACDA Radio and ChoralNet an hour of stunning musical sounds by Coro Cervantes, a choir from England that specializes in music of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.  You will hear choral music of the highest quality created by composers […]

Going Beyond Words host, Stan Schmidt invites you to return to your aural senses and enjoy a great masterpiece by Ralph Vaughan Williams,  “Dona nobis pacem” and “Five Songs of the Spirit” by another grand composer from England, Sir Edward Bairstow.  Sir Edward completed his composition in 1944 on the urging of the Dean who […]