Going Beyond Words

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt invites you his Christmas in July. You will be introduced to a new masterful choral ensemble from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, called Transept.  You will hear six tracks from a live concert that took place just last December. Transept is a vocal ensemble […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt invites you to spend an hour with a master composer who wrote many well-known operas. But there was a time in his composing life that he concentrated on sacred choral music.  His name is Giuseppe Verdi. This visit includes the incomplete Messa Solenne, […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt brings back a broadcast he did in June 2013. This broadcast is part of a series called Total Choral Recall, which allows the listener to hear complete works of masters of music history. On this show you will hear two classics: the Bach […]

Host Stan Schmidt takes you back this week to the ACDA Jubilee National Convention in Kansas City in late February and helps you recall the performances of The Baylor University Men’s Choir led by C Randall Bradley and the Spire Chamber Ensemble and Baroque Orchestra and conductor Ben A Spalding.   Each of these groups live […]

Host Stan Schmidt takes you back this week to May 12, 2013, and introduces a program on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet that could prove very interesting from the educational and listening corner. You will enjoy music by Uģis Prauliņš, Roxanna Panufnik; Patricia Van Ness, and selections from well-known friends like John Ireland, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and […]

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 […]