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Advocacy & Collaboration Monthly Blog: “Remember You” Mental Health and Choral Music
What happens when a choral director and psychologist join forces? We get some awesome tips and tools for managing our mental health as choral music people! As part of the monthly Advocacy and Collaboration curated blog and podcast episodes, we’ve started this little mini-series on avoiding burnout thanks to feedback we are hearing from […]
February Choral Journal Preview
The February issue of Choral Journal is available online. ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your monthly Choral Journal! Choral Vibrato: The Hundred Years’ War by Andrew […]
Choral Ethics: Enough
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It’s a New Year and new opportunities will crop up for you. New attitudes and new diets and new exercise programs and other NEW, NEW, NEW stuff will revamp and revitalize your life. Or will they? During […]
Due January 15: Choral Journal Summer Festival & Workshop Listing Information
ACDA’s annual free summer workshop and festival listing will appear in the March/April issue of Choral Journal for events taking place May 1 – Sept 1, 2024. Submissions are due by January 15, 2024, to abumgarner@acda.org. Please format your submission as follows: Date of Event Event Title Location (specify if Virtual) 1-2 sentence description of the event Contact name Contact email/phone […]
The Performance Practice of African Choral Music with Chukwuebuka Ezeakacha
The quest for diversity in Western art music has led to the influx of ‘Westernized’ African music into the choral canon, albeit tagged as ‘world music’. This approach to the inclusion of diverse repertoire has led to the homogenization of indigenousAfrican folk tunes by non-indigenous composers, thus creating Western-sounding African music. In this episode, we […]
Choral Ethics: Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New…….
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred Lord Tennyson This Holiday Season, I’ve rerun several Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Today will be the last of the reruns; all new blogs will begin again next Thursday. ~MLGA Happy New Year, ChoralNetters! It is 2024, can you […]
ChoralEd: The Boy’s Changing Voice, Part 1 – The Voice Change
The boy’s changing voice is challenging to navigate for both teacher and student. In this three-part series, Dr. Terry J. Barham discusses strategies for working with adolescent boys during the voice change process. In Part 1, Dr. Barham discusses the developmental vocal changes that occur during adolescence and encourages open communication with students about their […]
January Choral Journal Preview
The January issue of Choral Journal is available online. This issue is a preview of the 2024 six region conferences. ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your […]
2023 Year End Special: What The Heck is Going on With Choir People?
Over the last few weeks I have noticed a storm after the calm in choral music circles. We saw a boil over in Texas when a clinician withdrew from a conference based on a letter from two members that made her feel unwelcome, and a downstream fallout stemming from how the organization handled the issue. […]
Choral Ethics: Let There Be Peace on Earth
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein For the month of December, I’m rerunning some Choral Ethics blogs from years past with a few modifications where needed. Today’s is THE MOST REQUESTED December Blog or ANY Blog. It is especially appropriate […]