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While the bulk of the choral music performed during ACDA conferences tends to issue from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there are some who paint with the entire brush of choral music history.  Here is a performance of “Tristis est Anima Mea” by the South Carolina Governor’s School Cantus Chamber Choir (David Rhyne, conductor) during […]

This is the first installment of a new feature called, “It’s About the Phrase.”  

(From the Choral Journal article “Mozart’s Missa Solemnis K.262: An Overlooked Masterpiece”by Susan C. Welch)          Musical value is a difficult thing to establish. Value is often ascribed to a piece based on the appearance of beautiful melodies, pleasing harmonies, dynamic or textural contrasts, or other unusual effects. While all of these elements are […]

The Chorale Women from the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jeffrey Clayton, conductor) performing Norman Dello Joio’s “Jubilant Song” during the American Choral Directors Association’s 2011 National Conference in Chicago, Illinois.  

            Composition Spotlight ~ by Jack Senzig   Welcome to a new weekly feature we have prepared for you. It is our goal to provide conductors and ensembles with gems of the repertoire that are difficult to find anywhere but on ChoralNet.   Each week we will review one piece that is displayed in the ChoralNet […]