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What Does Music Mean?
While this may seem dated, the pedagogy is rock solid.
Saturday Respite: A Choral Conductor Caricature
Warwick Davis in the role of a choral conductor . . .
CJ Replay: Choral Music in England
(ACDA’s National Youth Honor Choir is currently performing in London under the direction of Simon Carrington. It seems a good time to replay this article from the May, 1973, Choral Journal, “Choral Singing in England,” by Harold Decker.) England, the “mod” country, the originator of the midi and the long hair, fllimous for […]
Armed Forces Medley
The Fourth of July . . . Independence Day in the United States! Before you head off to the barbeque and fireworks, enjoy this medley of melodies representing the U.S. Armed Forces recorded during the 2009 ACDA National Conference!
Stick Time: South African Medley
The World Choir Games are in full swing in Cincinnati. Here’s a selecion from ACDA’s 2009 National Conference to set the mood!
CJ Replay: The Birth of ACDA
(The ACDA leadership met last month in Dallas for training and to tend to the business of running our Association. It seems timely to look back to what out first President, Archie Jones, had to say when the Association was brand new. This is from the first page of the first volume of the Choral […]
Music Can Feed the Homeless
(from the interest session “Recovery, Healing, and Wholeness: How Music Can Feed the Homeless,” presented by Amanda Weber during the 2012 ACDA Eastern Divisison Conference.) At our Regional ACDA Convention in February, I presented on the ways in which music can feed the homeless. I was sought out because of my work in […]