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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” Henry David Thoreau As I begin preparations to cook another huge Thanksgiving Day meal, I am more thankful than usual this year. It’s been a rough fall for our family but things are looking a bit better. My spouse had a health […]

This week, Stan Schmidt, Host of Going Beyond Words offers to listeners on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet and opportunity to give Thanks and express Gratitude…..Writer Susan Palo Cherwien in her Reflections for Worship book “From Glory Into Glory”  says “In a thousand voices, in a thousand faces…God’s goodness I proclaimed…In maple colored hillsides, in dappled […]

Choral Clarity Presents: Your weakest sight-singers may be hiding something from you. We may very well be able to uncover their “secret” once we look a little deeper. Discover what your weakest sight-singers are unable to share. This may be the first step toward helping them improve! find out: The “Secret” Your Weakest Sight-Singers May […]

By Tom Price, Sechrist Travel The following is an edited version of a post originally appearing on Sechrist Travel’s newest blog series Modern Measures. To view the full post, visit https://sechristtravel.com/2017/11/07/dr-john-leavitt/. Recently, Sechrist Travel had the honor of speaking with a man who, although well-known and admired, humbly spoke of music and performance in a way […]

“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things!” “The Simpsons”  As I began to write this blog to describe Monique’s * story, I had no clue how to finish it. It’s a bit of an unusual situation but I bet many of you have dealt with something similar. You may not have known you had […]

This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to an hour of significant Choral Music by a highly respected and revered British Composer whose centenary will be celebrated in 2018 along with end of WWI…..He was a composer, teacher and Historian of Music.    You will hear the famous “Jerusalem”, a piece […]

This post is a reprint of one featured back in April. Chief among the things that differentiate choral music from instrumental music is the use of text.  I spend a lot of time reminding my choirs of this, as I am sure many of you do.  Because it is our job to convey textual meaning […]

I recently saw a post from a frustrated teacher with the following information: *Very talented kids *Won’t stop talking *Leave their seats *Distract each other *Off Topic *Ignore procedures like raising your hand *Don’t come in quietly *Takes forever to get things done *They are sensitive The teacher was thinking about having a “procedure day” […]

“‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” Alice Walker If you regularly read the newspaper or online versions of “Dear Abby” or “Miss Manners” or “Ask Amy”, you are certain to read a letter or two (or three or […]

This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to an Encore performance of a program titles “Serious World Choral Enunciations”. You can recall a song of Praise based on Psalm 96 by Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw (1929-2000) performed by the Kölner Kantorei directed by Volker Hempfling; A Memorial for those who […]