By Peter Severson On my first Sunday morning at Princeton, I roused myself from Buyers Hall early enough to get to the Chapel for worship. Some mixture of tradition, habit, and curiosity landed me in a pew near the back. I’d sat in a similar spot for Opening Exercises the week before, awestruck by the […]
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Deadline Extended: Choral Journal Summer Festival and Workshop Listings Due Feb 28
ACDA’s annual free summer workshop and festival listing will appear in the May issue of Choral Journal for events taking place May 1 – Sept 1, 2021. Submissions are due by February 28 to . NOTE that we have extended the deadline to accommodate those are still determining if their event will be virtual or in person. Please format your submission as follows: Date […]
America the Dream: A new “America the Beautiful” inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Steve Schuch Oh beautiful when children sing, free from hate and fear. Now hear their laughter pure and sweet, young voices ringing clear. Our featured video this week is a performance of “America the Dream” (arr. © 2021 Steve Schuch/Night Heron Music). Scores for the piece are available free for non-commercial use. Visit the […]
The Conductor as Yogi: Healing
Ramona M. Wis I have become even more aware of the power of words, including the words of the pieces we study and prepare with our choirs. This past fall, we chose pieces that helped us to process the issues and challenges of our current world. The words of Kyle Pederson’s powerful work, “Can We Sing the […]
The Elephant in the Shower: Four Seasoned Music Educators Share the Same Concern
By Stuart Hunt Among the necessary, and at the same time, egregious choices in which education (choral education in particular) presently finds itself, perhaps we have (necessarily) focused on the immediate, and, at our own peril, not looked far enough down the road. In our research, nowhere can we find this particular topic being significantly […]
Off The Podium: The Continuum
At the turn of the year, I was thinking about what the role that music has played in my life, and I came across this article that I wrote at this time of year two years ago: Music has been a part of human life for as long as we know. It fascinates […]