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ACDA’s annual free summer workshop and festival listing will appear in the May issue of Choral Journal for events taking place May 1 – Sept 1, 2021.  Submissions are due by February 28 to . NOTE that we have extended the deadline to accommodate those are still determining if their event will be virtual or in person. Please format your submission as follows: Date […]

Can you afford to spend 2 minutes a day on Sight-Singing? I would argue you CAN’T afford not to! Whether your students are remote, hybrid, or in-person, this 2-Minute Rapid-Fire Sight-Singing Drill will be effective. It requires little to no preparation on your end and maximizes those 2 minutes. This is SIMPLE! I’ll explain HOW […]

In this conversation, Soprano Deborah Stephens and I engage in an open and raw conversation about many aspects of identity and how it effects our concepts of self as well as how this effects our view of the music world. We hit the hot button topics of our own identities and how we see ourselves, […]

“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.” Alfred Lord Tennyson As you recall, Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics is re-visiting some of our most discussed Choral Ethics dilemmas for the […]

By Steve Schuch Oh beautiful when children sing,  free from hate and fear.  Now hear their laughter pure and sweet,  young voices ringing clear.  Our featured video this week is a performance of “America the Dream” (arr. © 2021 Steve Schuch/Night Heron Music). Scores for the piece are available free for non-commercial use. Visit the […]

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 […]