Going Beyond Words

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt invites you to take time to pause and remember those members of the Jewish community of Pittsburgh who were killed while attending worship in their synagogue. The sacred side of the classical repertory does not offer a great deal that speaks directly to […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt presents a way to tell a musical story and the subject is All Saints Day, another way to look at programming.   You will recall two selections from Brahms German Requiem using the English translation by Robert Shaw plus a 1878 publication of O Heiland, reiss […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt invites you to hear a Reformation Salute. You will compare three versions of Ein Feste Burg of Martin Luther. The first arranged by John Ferguson, then a setting by Telemann and lastly, the famous one by Johann Sebastian Bach. Also programmed are two […]

This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet you will be transported to Sioux Falls SD to hear the 45th Annual South Dakota High School Honor Choir and Reunion Choir.  Alan Stanga Executive Director told me that the Honors Choir ideas came from him and a colleague at the time, Perry Jones, who wanted to give All […]

This week on  GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt helps you experience a Mendelssohn Recital which includes a Prayer for Peace; five anthems for the seasons of the church year; Six Lieder from Op41 from a CD reviewed in the August edition of the Choral Journal; A Lenten exposure of a Suplication motet;  Two […]

This week Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet host Stan Schmidt encourages you to visit the music of Antonin Dvořák, György Legiti, Owain Park, and three folk songs, one each from Bulgaria, Ukraine, and America.  You will recall Legiti’s “Morning” with the vocal cries of the rooster and turn right around with the beautiful American […]