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Build A Blog
ACDA Tech Committee Member Julie Parsons recently delivered a technology presentation at the NW ACDA Conference. Great ideas, Julie! Here is a bit of it, uploaded for everyone on SlideShare: Build A Blog Online View more presentations from conductress.
Carey’s ACDA Review Continues
A guest blogger continues the ACDA Conference Review: In a nutshell, the performance content of ACDA’s North Central Division Convention in Minneapolis rivaled the programs of every National Convention I have attended in the last ten years. For this blogger, concerts had the strongest impact during the four-day celebration of the choral arts. There were simply […]
Salve Regina
I’m fairly sure I heard this group in Miami but I don’t remember it like I should – very beautiful:
Second performances
Maureen Dowdell of the Vocal Area Network promotes Project Encore, a project of Schola Cantorum on Hudson dedicated to promoting second performances of choral works which have already been premiered: Where gaining a second performance traditionally depended on a composer’s ability to “shop” a score, Project Encore offers a cost-effective, one-stop solution to increasing visibility […]
Reviews of ACDA Division Conferences
Paul Carey has performed quite a service for ACDA and has submitted reviews for several division conferences over the past few weeks. He even brought in a guest blogger to help when he wasn’t able to attend in person! Thirteen blog posts in all! Here is the collection: Central Division – Cincinnati: Thursday […]
Singing spirituals
Jonathan Miller posted two articles awhile back about spirituals . . . check them out here and here. Here is a little from part one: It seems to me that, for many of us, the spiritual has at its essence the quality of a gift. There is a sense that we have been given […]
Mr. K
ChoralNet member Steven Szalaj sent me the following note: I was really touched by the story, and the demonstration of the power we as conductors and educators in our lives. i look for writing by folks not professionally in “the music dodge” who articulate music’s importance in their life. Though this is not specific to […]
ECU at ACDA National
Daniel Bara has built the ECU program into one of the nation’s strongest choral programs. Here is his choir at the ACDA National Conference in Miami.
Does a bad rehearsal equal a great concert?
At times, I pray that it does! Read what Chris Rowbury has to say: Very often, in the session the week before, or even sometimes in the rehearsal on the day of the concert, it appears that everyone in the choir has forgotten what songs they know, which parts they sing, and what they’re supposed […]