While we talk about music being the international language, nothing brings that home more than participating in a music exchange program. According to ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) staff, “the International Conductors Exchange Program (ICEP) is committed to leading the world in the creation of opportunities for intercultural and artistic dialogue with these choral […]
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Composition Spotlight -Happy Thanksgiving!
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (The Composition Showcase is a unique resource for conductors. Choral composers are allowed to share only a few of their best works. Each week we offer you the best of the best on a silver platter. The Silver Platter Award winners are works that your choirs will love […]
ICEP Spotlight – Dr. Giselle Wyers
This September, I was fortunate to be one of the conductors selected by ACDA to take part in an exchange with the ICEP (International Conductors Exchange Program). I was very excited when I first heard about this program a few years ago, when I was asked to serve on the NW Division Steering Committee for […]
Progression of the Creative and Artistic Process-Composers PLEASE Weigh-In!
I like to compose choral music for specific projects, around concepts I am working on, and for challenges that occur to me that I find interesting to explore. In other words, I compose out of interest and curiosity, not because it is in any way my vocation, a compulsion, or any of the other reasons […]
Responding to Violent Events
But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Yesterday, so many of us went to work […]
Choral Potpourri: Coming Home
“There is no place like home.” L.Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz On Saturday evening, I will give a pre-concert lecture for the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, our local professional symphony. The concert is a program of Russian Masters with not a speck of choral music to be heard. I will be […]