Going Beyond Words

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt will deal with the Psalms of David and you will hear Psalm 51 and several compositions created out of that Psalm; Plus Psalm 77, I Cry Aloud commissioned by your host for his high school school choir in 1974 from Knut Nystedt.   You will hear […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt continues the serious listening for the Lenten Season.   Taking the texts Libera Nos, How Long O Lord? And De Profundis you will encounter music by John Sheppard, an unaccompanied gem by Johann Michael Haydn, Antonio Vivaldi’s Crucifixus, the stunning cry for help from […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet Host Stan Schmidt brings back works by one of the greatest composers in music history.   We will also discover another exhilarating composition that could be regarded as a member of the great top 40 list of choral compositions.   While on his way to the U.S. our featured composer, […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet Host Stan Schmidt un-wraps some new releases revealing the newest of Choral Creations….like Folks Songs, one of Monteverdi three remaining operas, a new look at the GBW Theme and a magnificent setting of the Lords’s Prayer by Leos Janàček.   “ Danse, Mon Moin Danse” leads us off a […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet Host Stan Schmidt gives us a sneek preview of some of the ACDA Choirs that are headed to the National Convention in Kansas City.   As you know from 70 to 80 choirs from our country and abroad will make their way to share their national cultures through choral […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet Host Stan Schmidt directs our thinking to choral compositions that are considered to be revered, respected, exalted, enriching and treasured.  What are the top 40 hits in the genre .  When you get choral directors together, perhaps at a national convention, they might have a debate on what […]