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(Here is a little something from Glenn Obergefell to help you get those young minds in your care focused at the beginning of the week.)     This is a chant I lead my students in.  We do this on Mondays when I am having trouble motivating them. I start with “Repeat after ME”   […]

Are you interested in helping ACDA as it grows and strengthens in its ability to serve the choral arts?  Then an amazing career opportunity awaits you in the recently announced position of Director of Membership Development at the American Choral Directors Association.   The Director of Membership Development will have the opportunity work with ACDA’s […]

Cincinnati hosted the World Choir Games this month.  I wish I could have attended the festival and competition; it looks like it was a tremendous success!     Here is a little bit from Cincinnati's "City Beat" that talks about the emotions that surround the award ceremony: By scoring within certain point ranges, singing groups […]

I’m finding most of my choral news of Facebook these days:   As he prepared last week for Sunday’s upcoming performance of the St. Matthew Passion, Helmuth Rilling grilled his conducting students behind the scenes at the Oregon Bach Festival, making sure that they were tuned into even the tiniest details in the sprawling choral […]

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When did you get your first computer? For the ACDA National Office, the answer to this question might surprise you. A few years ago, in response to a need to "modernize" the process of ACDA and, yes, help with that first computer purchase, ACDA created the Technology Committee at the National level. Originally, the goal […]

I’m going to opine briefly and directly for just a moment.   The World Choir Games is a REMARKABLE experience. Pack a bag – TODAY. Head to Cincinnati. Make your way to the Duke Energy Convention Center on 5th Street. Register. Then attend concerts that will rival anything you have ever heard. The event runs […]

The heat has been brutal here at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, but the singing has been divine.  This is one of those experiences that is difficult – if not truly impossible – to adequately describe in words.  To try to report on any single facet of thie remarkable happening would be to do […]

Three great things:   1. This ChoirTV site by Interkultur is really incredible.   2. The World Choir Games must be a hit, because   3. Stellenbosch University Choir continues to amaze everyone with elite performances all over the world.     Hint: Unfortunately your browser does not have Flash Player installed or the Flash […]

If you don’t know this piece, you need to – by today’s birthday composer Toivo Kuula: