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A Summing Up: Choral Composition through Nine Decades with Kirke Mechem

January 29, 2024 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The February 2024 issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “A Summing Up: Choral Composition through Nine Decades” by Kirke Mechem. Following is a portion from the article. _________________ After a lifetime of writing for chorus, how can I sum it up in a way that will interest conductors and composers of a later […]

Filed Under: Choral Journal Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, ACDA Publications, Choral Journal, composer, composition

Singing for Pleasure: An Introduction to the Life and Works of Imogen Holst

June 26, 2023 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The June/July 2023 issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “Singing for Pleasure: An Introduction to the Life and Works of Imogen Holst” by Liza Calisesi Maidens. Following is a portion from the article. _________________ On March 14, 1984, at seventy-seven years of age, Imogen Holst died of a heart attack. Her burial plot at […]

Filed Under: Choral Journal Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, ACDA Publications, Choral Journal, composer

George Walker: His Story, His Song, His Legacy

October 31, 2022 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The October 2022 issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “George Walker: His Story, His Song, His Legacy” by Vinroy D. Brown, Jr. This article highlights the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2022. Following is a portion from the introduction. _________________ The year 2022 marks the anniversary of several composers and […]

Filed Under: Choral Journal Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, ACDA Publications, Choral Journal, composer

Jake Runestad Live in My Classroom!

October 14, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

In this episode, filmed in front of a “live studio audience” in the form of my students, I have the opportunity to sit down with one of our generations finest compositional voices, Jake Runestad. With the help of my students, we have a spirited conversation about the value and genesis of creativity, the special nature […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, composer, expression, interpretation, Poetry

Songs of (re)Imagining: Amy Gordon

April 13, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

Amy Gordon, an LA-based composer, has a catalog of almost 40 choral works, including pieces for treble choirs and online performance. In addition to her compositional activity, she teaches theory and has created a theory-themed Escape Room game (called Escape Tone), available in both Easy and Intermediate for purchase on her website.   This blog […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: composer, Equity

Songs of (re)Imagining: Paul John Rudoi

March 9, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

I’ve been writing since June 2021. This is the first blog post in which I’ve interviewed or highlighted a cishet white male. “But Shannon, if this is a blog centering equity, why are you sharing the voice of a cishet white male?” Good question. Equity work needs to involve everyone. In particular, cishet white men […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: composer, Equity

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