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ACDA makes another technological step forward this month with an online application process for the 2011 National Conference in Chicago, IL.  Read all about it here.   And here is more about the application process.   ACDA partnered with “OpusEvent,” a company that also hosts online auditions for the MENC Honor Choirs and the All-American […]

Via The Chant Café, a public-domain classic instruction book on Gregorian chant available in its entirety online. Explains the neumes, the pronunciation, the modes, reciting tones, chironomy, psalmody, the quilisma, etc. Obviously there’s been more research done since 1910, but for those interested in chant for liturgical use based on the Solemnes traditions, this book […]

OneLicense.net is a clearinghouse for churches which want to get licenses to reprint hymns, songs, and anthems in their bulletins or project them on screens. Like Harry Fox for recordings, OneLicense.net allows one-stop shopping as a convenience to publishers and musicians alike.   Their latest initiative is the "Practice Track License", which allows you to […]

James Feiszli is one of my heros.     I recently had the opportunity to introduce him at the leadership conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Chicago and I described him as a “historic figure” for ACDA.  I meant it – through his efforts, ChoralNet came into being and continues to exist and […]

Fascinating.   My new student Peter Haley pointed this out to me a couple of days ago.   Has anyone tried this?  

I get to teach Diction for Singers this year.   And I’m out looking for resources!   I ran across this video and thought some of you might find it funny:  

A few weeks ago, I heard a remarkable sermon based on the book of Amos.   In the middle of the sermon, the pastor said this:   “Busyness is our excuse, laziness is our affliction.”   It is a powerful statement.  (it is also a spelling conundrum – both of those words look misspelled to […]

I saw this very cool choir picture on the website of the World Choir Games:     A great shot, don’t you think?   They don’t just pose well.  The Stellenbosch University Choir got an outstanding score of 95.75 and received the World Choir Games Grand Champion award.   Congratulations, Stellenbosch!

Congratulations to J. Huszti and the Men in Blaque for their win at the World Choir Games in China.     From the ACDA Website:   The first part of the World Choir Games concluded Sunday night with the Champions Concert that included one American choir. The World Choir Games boasted twelve competitive categories this […]

Congratulations to ACDA’s National Women’s R&S Chair for her recent feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Women’s choirs . . . are now well recognized as a means to not only broaden students’ musical experience but to help keep them enrolled. Ms. Levine, chairwoman of the music department at California State Polytechnic University at […]