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K-12 Teaching: Repertoire Selections for School Choirs

June 27, 2022 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 current Spring 2022 issue compiled […]

Filed Under: ChorTeach Tagged With: ChorTeach, Repertoire

Don’t Abandon the Canon! With Dr. Anika Prather

May 27, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Like many topics in education, we have strains of the same philosophical divides in music education as we do in other areas of education. This week, my guest Dr. Anika Prather is the perfect person to address and offer a bridge to one of those divides. She has a background in both Music Education as […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, decolonize, Diversity, inclusion, literature, philosophy, programming, Repertoire

Songs of (re)Imagining: Margaret Bonds

April 27, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972) was an American composer and arranger, notably setting many texts by Langston Hughes (a close friend) and arranging African-American spirituals. When she was growing up, she lived in a home that had visits from Florence Price and Will Marion Cook. She studied piano and composition with Florence Price and William Dawson during […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: Choral Music, Equity, Repertoire

What’s Hot and What’s Not? Tell Us What YOU Think!

April 12, 2022 by From Our Readers Leave a Comment

By Rebecca Lord What music is being programmed for our nation’s choirs and why? What issues or criteria weigh most heavily in the minds of those choosing repertoire and where are conductors turning for ideas and inspiration? Are there solid trends or are our choirs all over the map? Become part of the answer to […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: programming, Repertoire

Song of (re)Imagining: Modesta Bor

March 23, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

I was first introduced to Modesta Bor (1926–1998) by my friend, Dr. Nicholas Miguel. I was looking for public domain works that were written by women for treble or equal voices and that would fit the educational goals and skill level of the ensemble I was programming for.    Modesta Bor was born in Venezuela, […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: Choral, Equity, Repertoire

Songs of (Re)imagining: Mari Esabel Valverde and the Swedish Song

February 9, 2022 by Shannon Marie Gravelle Leave a Comment

You may know composer Mari Isabel Valverde from her work “When Thunder Comes,” or “Patterns on the Snow,” which was an ACDA consortium from 2016. Many know Ms. Valverde from her music that connects to equity… or, perhaps because of one of her identities as Mexican-American or transgender. And yes, she is a leader in […]

Filed Under: Others Tagged With: Equity, Mari Esabel Valverde, Repertoire, Swedish

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