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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Spotted in a little surfing around – ACDA is both a professional event and a refreshing time away from the usual responsibilties:   Going to conventions are always refreshing for me. I learn, I hear, I get ideas-it’s great. I just came back from the ACDA Western Division Conference and had a blast! — There were […]

I did not know him, but you cannot help but be impressed by this tribute, found on Hymnography Unbound.  

I’m preparing a concert of all misattributed works for my next program, and it’s been lots of fun. There are so many pieces to choose from! The BWV is full of bogus Bach works, and unscrupulous publishers in the 18th and 19th centuries claimed that all kinds of stuff was by Mozart, Pergolesi, etc., so […]