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Composing for Middle and High School Choirs: A Conversation with Laura Farnell and Reginal Wright

January 2, 2023 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

ChorTeach is ACDA’s quarterly online publication, designed for those who work with singers of all levels but specifically K-12 and community choirs. A full annotated ChorTeach index is available online at acda.org/publications/chorteach. Over 160 articles are organized into seventeen categories. For more information, email  or visit acda.org/chorteach. Following is an excerpt from an article in the Fall 2022 issue […]

Filed Under: ChorTeach Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, ACDA Publications, ChorTeach, high school, Interview, middle school

Songs of (re)Imagining: B.E. Boykin

February 23, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

Dr. Brittney E. Boykin is a native of Alexandria, VA. She began studying piano at 7-years-old with Mrs. Alma Sanford, who taught her through multiple competitions. Dr. Boykin studied piano at Spelman College with Dr. Rachel Chung, and after graduation, attended Westminster Choir College, where she was awarded the R and R Young Composition Prize. […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: ADEIB, choir, high school, middle school

Stories of Newness: Healing and Reimagining with Alan

August 11, 2021 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

*Alan had just finished rehearsing one of his choirs on a piece of music they were going to be presenting at an upcoming concert when he received the email: School was closing. They were projected to be out until April. “We’ll do [the concert] when we come back,” he thought. Within a week, though, it […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: choir, COVID-19, Equity, high school

Stories of Newness: Healing and Reimagining with Stephanie Gravelle

July 14, 2021 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

This was such a fun conversation with me. Stephanie is a fantastic musician and passionate music educator. She’s also my sister-in-law, and I love learning from her. I wasn’t able to include everything from our conversation. Stephanie is an incredibly engaging and thoughtful programmer, and I highly recommend just reaching out to her and asking […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: choir, COVID-19, high school, International Activities, middle school

Stories of Newness: Healing and Reimagining with Remel Derrick

June 30, 2021 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

Like many music educators, Remel Derrick (high school choir teacher at Abilene High School and choral composer– find his music here) found out about his school closing the week of spring break in March 2020. They were given a week to adjust and then made the switch to virtual. During remote teaching, his students recorded […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: COVID-19, high school

Silver Linings: Giving Grace, Growing Closer, and Building Trust

March 24, 2021 by ACDA Leave a Comment

By Hilary Morton Everyone has had a hard year. I think choral directors might have had it a bit worse. We will be dealing with the fallout from this pandemic for the next few years at least, rebuilding our programs from the ground up. We haven’t been teaching “choir” as we have known it to […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: COVID-19, high school, Pandemic, Silver Linings

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