This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio Host Stan Schmidt creates a Spring Collage of diverse interests with choral works from Austria, Sweden, Italy, Finland, and England. Our Stiles range from the Baroque to a Swedish Composer Born in 1981. Creations are from Isfrid Kayser, Fredrik Sixten, Ippolitp Baccusi, Orazio Vecchi, Orazio Vecchi, […]
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Does Every Student Deserve An Award?
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: I agree with the criticism about the “award-bearing” adolescent world we live in today. Every student gets a trophy. Students get participation awards just for breathing. Does Every Student Deserve An Award? The answer isn’t as cut and dry as you might think…..
CJ Replay: Considerations for the Collegiate-Based Town and Gown Choir
The February issue of Choral Journal features a special series of articles on the topic of multigenerational choral singing. You can read a preview of all the articles available in that issue in this post. Following is a section from the article by John C. Hughes and Jon Hurty, “A Life of Song: Considerations for the […]
What Do you Think of These?
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt asks this question….What Do you think of these. You will hear music from India, Germany, Italy and Austria by Composers Monteverdi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and Hans Schanderl. Artists included The Miami University Men’s Glee Club, The Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Alto – […]
On the Voice: CJ Replay
The June/July issue of Choral Journal features a special article for the On the Voice series. Sharon Hansen has been a member of the Choral Journal editorial board and editor of the On the Voice article series for many years and writes about the history of On the Voice in Choral Journal, past practices, and […]
A Vocal Vacation
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to go on a Vocal Vacation. You can visit choirs from America, Ireland and England, displaying their talents with music by Norman Dello Joio; Thomas Weelkes; Johannes Brahms; George F. Handel; Leonard Bernstein; Johann Sebastian Bach; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plus a […]