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I have heard in the past that this can occur, but it’s the first time I’ve encountered it. There is a 12 year old boy in my extremely small changed voices ensemble who can vocalise in his emerging baritone voice consistently up to about a B3, and has a remnant treble voice in which he can […]

How many states have Mandated High School Choral Sight Singing Materials?  Can you please list your state in ALL CAPS and the title of your state-mandated choral sight-singing curricula, please?

By Rob Sharp Alessandro Striggio’s 1566 mass, performed by 40 choristers, sees voices, strings and brass meld into a jaw-dropping harmony. The mass was first performed in the 16th century, touring Europe, before being lost in the mists of time. Several years ago, the work, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, was rediscovered in the […]

  The Robert Shaw Award is the most prestigious award given to a choral musician by the American Choral Directors Association. The honored recipient of the Robert Shaw Choral Award is chosen only every two years by ACDA’s Past President’s Council, and presented to the recipient at our National Conference. Past recipients of this award […]

I need some more songs for my men’s choir for our musical theater show.  Name as many as you can 🙂

Case #1 Recently I had a lady in my choir who flat out told me that her voice “sounded just like Sandi Patty”—– it didn’t, period.  When she didn’t get the desired solo in the Christmas program (although another was offered), she totally dropped out of choir.  She said, “God has called me to be […]

By LaTria Garnigan Students and faculty at Fayette County High were recently honored with a grand visit. Sir Winston Churchill’s great grandson, Duncan Sandys, visited the school to personally invite the chorus to perform in the London International Choral Festival in London, England Dec. 27 to Jan. 4, 2012. Choral Director Richard Prouty received an […]

And the best conductor’s podium is….?   And the best conductor’s music stand is….?

Hello all,    I am about to sit down with the scheduler and decide how to schedule chorus students for their creative arts block next year, and I’m trying to decide which method to use.  A few things to help you understand my school: 1) We are a K-8 (6-8 MS); only one section of […]

ACDA has recently completed content lists of the Archive’s holdings which are available on the ACDA website at http://acda.org/archive/finding-aids.  The lists contain brief descriptions of the materials held by ACDA which include the personal collections of directors such as R. Wayne Hugoboom and other early ACDA leaders, Colleen Kirk, Harold Decker, Walter Collins, and Charles […]