The May 2021 issue of Choral Journal is online and is a focus on international activities. This issue features an article titled “Building a Foundation: Interviews with International Exchange Program Conducting Fellows” by T. J. Harper with Jeffery Ames, Jihoon Park, Sara Durkin, Rodrigo Faguaga, Julie Yu, and Ken Wakia. You can read it in its […]
International Initiatives
CJ Replay: International Conductors Exchange Program to Sweden
The May issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “International Conductors Exchange Program to Sweden: Building Bridges Through Choral Conductors” by Jeremy D. Jones and Joshua Habermann. You can read it in its entirety at acda.org/choraljournal. Following is a portion from the introduction. _______________________ Jeremy D. Jones Following exchanges with Cuba in 2012 and China […]
May Choral Journal Preview
The newest issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the articles you will find in this issue. ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. Below is a preview of the articles you will find in this […]
Kenyan Choral Music, A Recent Historical Perspective
Image via The following is written by Dale Rieth, _________ With all of the recent attention to the International Conductor’s Exchange Program and specifically this year’s pipeline to Kenya, I wanted to share an historical perspective from my own Kenyan research in the 1990’s. In fact, this article might serve as a “prequel” to today’s […]
Musica International – Dr. John Warren & Jean Sturm
MUSICA: A Great Benefit for ACDA Members If you are searching for choral repertoire, and the fact is, we are indeed searching for choral repertoire all the time, your membership in the American Choral Directors Association offers you the entire Musica choral database to track down repertoire throughout the world. Why would you use Musica […]
Reaching a Global Audience – Deke Sharon
Reaching a global audience, by Deke Sharon Since the beginning of recorded history until the advent of recording, music was local, as sound waves could only travel as far as the breeze would carry them. Recordings and radio waves allowed music to travel through space and time, but recording and distribution was an expensive process, […]