What was your first musical memory? Hearing Hank Williams singing Hey! Good Lookin’ – What ya got cookin’ on the radio, and then the great singing at my home church, Church of Christ. There was a lot of a cappella singing. I heard 4 part harmony from my earliest years and began to follow the hymn notation from about age 5 or 6.
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Organizing the Chaos: Managing the Middle School Choir
by Developing Voices Author Jennifer Berroth, Choral Director at Leawood Middle School, Leawood, Kansas. I’ve heard it said that teaching middle school puts one at the front of the line for sainthood. We’ve all had days on which we have earned that status. I have been teaching middle school choir for seven years, and in […]
Online Fundraising: Why It’s Growing at a Rapid Pace
This blog post was contributed by the staff at Edco, one of ACDA’s partners in online fundraising. In it they share information about their product. Profile of a choir director: This year I need to scrape together over $20,000 for travel expenses, new music, and uniforms/risers/music folders and I know about half of that is […]
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL COMPETITION AVE VERUM 2019 Baden/Austria
The non-binding online registration for the 4th INTERNATIONAL CHORAL COMPETITION AVE VERUM 2019, May31st – June 2nd in Baden/Austria (25km south of Vienna) has started. Details: www.aveverum.at
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Invisible Women
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” Oscar Wilde You all know “her” but you may not know exactly what she does. She is just there, connected with your ensemble in some way. What she does is invisible to you and everyone else, but I am here today to tell […]
Stand Tall Singer!
How many times have we heard “Stand in Singer’s Posture” or “Pull Your Sternum Toward the Ceiling”? And so, tall I stood. Staying in perfect posture took hold when I was but fourteen years old and effected me until just a few years ago. When I was an impressionable fourteen years old someone gave me […]