This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio join Stan Schmidt for a program called “Musical Footsteps Through the Seasons”. You will experience styles from the Renaissance, French Impressionism, Baroque, Romantic, and Contemporary British. Composers represented are Orlando di Lasso, Michael Hurd and Owain Park from England, Charles Koechlin from France, along with Friedrich […]
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14 “Secret” Indicators That Your Choral Program is Outstanding
How do we measure success? This, of course, is a lifelong question that stares us in the face every day. This article is far less philosophical, but does perhaps pose a way in which we should change the way we view success in terms of high school choral programs. Find out the 14″Secret” Indicators […]
Use Your Singing Heart
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio join Stan Schmidt for a program called Use Your Singing Heart. Groups include the SWR Vokalensemble,MDR Rundfunkchor & NDR Choir with the Festspiel Orchestra Göttingen from Germany; The Salt Lake Vocal Artists; The Prague Singers; Soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas singing one of Handel’s Italian Cantatas; The […]
In Memoriam Veljo Tormis
This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio join Stan Schmidt for a special edition as he helps we all remember Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis, one of the greatest choral creators of the the 20th Century. You will hear how folk music used this towering Genius. Internationally, his fame arose chiefly from his extensive […]
Don’t Waste Your Final Rehearsal(s)
Choral Clarity Blog Presents: Many of us think of the last day of class as a day of yearbook signing, collecting missing music, and a free period with lots of selfies. Sure, those things might happen during the last day of class, but making the final day meaningful is so important for building tradition within […]
A Spring Collage
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, […]