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Ramona M. Wis I have become even more aware of the power of words, including the words of the pieces we study and prepare with our choirs.  This past fall, we chose pieces that helped us to process the issues and challenges of our current world.  The words of Kyle Pederson’s powerful work, “Can We Sing the […]

ChorTeach is ACDA’s quarterly online publication, designed for those who work with singers of all levels. A full annotated ChorTeach index is available online at acda.org/chorteach. Over 160 articles are organized into seventeen categories. For submission information, to view the index, or to read the latest issue, visit acda.org/chorteach. Following is an excerpt from an article in the current Winter […]

Don’t bring work home with you. Grading practices and making literacy the core of the curriculum can lead to better choirs, less stress for the teacher and more time in class for a rich and in depth learning experience. This episode takes on a unique format, in that it was birthed from listener response from […]

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.” Alfred Lord Tennyson I mentioned last week, Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics will be re-visiting some of our most discussed Choral Ethics dilemmas for the month of January. So today we begin with one topic discussed many times, “Moving On.” Moving on can be by choice or NOT […]

By Stuart Hunt Among the necessary, and at the same time, egregious choices in which education (choral education in particular) presently finds itself, perhaps we have (necessarily) focused on the immediate, and, at our own peril, not looked far enough down the road.  In our research, nowhere can we find this particular topic being significantly […]

  At the turn of the year, I was thinking about what the role that music has played in my life, and I came across this article that I wrote at this time of year two years ago:   Music has been a part of human life for as long as we know. It fascinates […]

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 […]

For more than a decade, the month of January has been a choral break for my singers. Changing our approach can invigorate our singers, build their confidence, and remove the typical January lull! Whether in-person, hybrid, or remote, this choral break can be to everyone’s benefit. What should we do instead? I’m going to share my January approach, the approach […]

“Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred Lord Tennyson Happy New Year, ChoralNetters! I hope you had a pleasant holiday season or as pleasant as it was able to be. A New Year is here, and with that, a hope for a better year for ALL of us. We just need to help […]

Challenging, Frustrating, Depressing Encouraging, Disappointing, Intriguing. These are the words I frequently use to describe what it is like teaching high school vocal music during the pandemic.  It has become quite evident in the last ten months that The Pre COVID traditional educational model is becoming outdated and may no longer be adequate for post-COVID […]