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Going Beyond Words w/ Stan Schmidt Show 2314 – A Donizetti Surprise This week on ACDA Radio and Going Beyond Words,  Host Stan Schmidt invites choral enthusiasts to enjoy music by a very popular composer of Great Opera Music but most of what you will hear has nothing to do with Opera.   We know that […]

Choral Clarity Presents: This 9 question choral midterm is the most effective way to measure the success of our students.  This midterm will require no studying or preparation on the part of our students.  It will, however, require some deep thinking while taking very little time to complete. Will you and your students meet this exam with […]

The February 2014 issue of Choral Journal included  three feature articles titled “Musical Settings of War Texts in Two 20th-Century British Choral Works,” “The Choral Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang,” and “The Complex Ancestry of ‘We Shall Overcome.’” The last article will be the subject of today’s ChoralNet blog, going along with last week’s article that coincided […]

2017 ICEP OF THE AMERICAS:  30 Conductors, 7 Countries, Limitless Possibilities The February 2017 ACDA Choral Journal features the current ICEP Conducting Fellows from the United States and South America. These conductors represent not only the future of choral music in their respective countries, they are the standard-bearers for the next generation of choral musicians. […]

My first year teaching middle school choral music in public schools was awful. I have no idea how I made it through.  I didn’t know what I was doing.  I was armed with a master’s degree from a very good music school, and I was not good at teaching choral music to beginners. I was […]

Do you have strong opinions or funny anecdotes about choral music, conducting, rehearsal techniques, or whether or not “concert black” is becoming passé? You should blog about it! ChoralNet is seeking new bloggers to either become regular contributors or to contribute to our “From Our Readers” blog section. If you’d like to write something for […]

  “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill When I first conceived this “R” Choral Ethics series for January, I thought I would use various people’s problems and situations to illustrate. For three of my Blogs this month, it has been easy to pick examples. In fact, […]

Going Beyond Words w/ Stan Schmidt Show 2313 – The Great Mass In C Minor by Mozart – New Carus Edition This week on ACDA Radio and Going Beyond Words,  Host Stan Schmidt invites you to a listen to a new Critical edition of The Great Mass in C Minor as constructed by Conductor Frieder Bernius […]

The March 2016 issue of Choral Journal included a feature article titled “On Our Way: Programming a Martin Luther King Jr Concert for Youth Choir.” This is a timely topic on the 2017 Martin Luther King day that we celebrate in the United States. There are many resources available to serve as starting points for […]

It’s a New Year! It is highly likely that we are all teaching new music. Reading music is so natural for all of us who’ve completed college degrees and taken piano since we were children.  Like speaking a language fluently, reading music feels natural to us. h …And it is highly likely that most of us […]