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You’re planning a dinner for some friends.  What to serve, what to serve?  Okay, let’s start with calamari and stuffed portabella mushrooms as an appetizer.  So far so good.  Then we’ll have a lovely salad of field greens with freshly made wild berry vinaigrette.  Yummy – go on!  For the entrée a frozen pizza, then […]

The American Choral Directors Association’s 2012 National Youth Honor Choir will be rehearsing and performing in England, June 15-23.    Click the ChoralBuzz tab on ChoralNet for the latest news and blogs from London!

It is a courageous act to examine your weaknesses.   ACDA is acting with courage these days and looking intently at the problems of the organization.  One of the themes that really impacted the ACDA leadership was the fact that our membership was 93% Caucasian – or, at least – that 93% of the respondants […]

 The ACDA leadership met this past weekend and had a tremendous time of discussion, brainstorming, envisioning, and planning.   Pictured here is our Executive Director Tim Sharp who is standing in front of a list of concerns the leadership had about our organization – identifying our problems was an important part of planning who we […]

            I am frequently dumbfounded by what our elected governmental officials (from the local waste management board to the oval office) see as a reasonable way to spend our money.  (Yes, Senator, that is OUR money, not yours, sir.  Or as the Captain said to Maverick in Top Gun, “You don’t own that plane, son, […]

Why are you inside staring at your computer on a Saturday?  Go outside and PLAY!

(From the Choral Journal article “Origin and Development of a Sacred Musical Heritage: The Psalter of Herod’s Temple,” by Mary P. Houze)          That vocal music with its inherent ability to communicate a message was held in greater esteem than instrumental music is attested to by the fact that only Levites, their kinsmen, and […]

Who says big voices can’t sing choral music?

It seems that many choral conductors are always on the hunt for both new literature and clever presentation ideas.  Here is a performance from a recent ACDA Divisional Conference that may get those creative juices flowing.