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It is exciting times for ACDA in Chicago as the conference begins this morning.   ChoralNet is here tweeting and blogging and planning and listening.  A few reminders for people who are attending the conference: We have Google Calendars for both Gold and Scarlet tracks. Many are tweeting!  #ACDA2011  Join the conversation! Tim Sharp’s blog about the […]

I hope most of the ChoralNet membership is traveling to Chicago today for a spectacular National ACDA Conference.   I expect that we'll be blogging multiple times a day about the conference, so check into ChoralNet often for some official updates.   If you want to take part in the conversation about ACDA Chicago, you […]

Bobby McFerrin is interviewed by Huffington Post's Bianca Bosker: When I was a kid growing up and we bought albums, we treated them with such reverence, we would listen to every single cut, first to last, whether we liked the pieces or not, we were patient enough to at least give the [pieces] a chance. […]

Guardian columnist Tom Service growls at audience members who break the silence following the final chord in a piece of music: But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure […]

ACDA is fortunate to have an Executive Director who is also a published scholar – see this new publication from Pendragon Press entitled "Jubilate, Amen!"   A description of the book: Many facets of Donald P. Hustad's distinguished career as professor, author, and church musician are celebrated in this volume by 29 peers and former […]

It is wonderful to have an ACDA Executive Director that is also an accomplished choral director.   A review of his recent performance of Rachmaninoff Vespers: Tulsa Oratorio Chorus artistic director Tim Sharp began Sunday afternoon's concert with an effort at what he called "truth in advertising." The official title of the piece the chorus […]