By Rebecca Lord Conducting today can feel like it requires a graduate degree in technology. This article will provide tech solutions, simple to complex. Recommendations and video examples come from music-technology professionals, conductors, and internationally recognized virtual choir leaders. REHEARSAL SUCCESS IN A LAND OF LATENCY Before COVID-19, how many of us knew about Zoom […]
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The ACDA 2021 National Conference Goes Virtual!
To ensure that we keep members and choirs safe, ACDA has determined that a pivot from the traditional onsite ACDA national conference to a virtual one is necessary during this time of COVID-19. While we will miss the joys of being physically together, we are excited about the new opportunities this change will offer: More […]
Non-auditioned Choirs – and Their Conductors – Are at the Heart of Community Singing
By Pat Guth For the first 40 years of my musical career, I spent a lot of time dealing with “imposter syndrome” – that nagging feeling when you doubt your accomplishments and have a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” Maybe you’ve been there, too. It’s not uncommon among artists of all […]
3 Creative Ways to Motivate Your K-12 Choir
Conducting a children’s choral group can be both energizing and exhausting at the same time. On one hand, your students LOVE to sing! On the other hand, it can be hard to get them to focus when it’s rehearsal time. Leading a children’s choir successfully requires you to get creative in the way you keep […]
A **must-have** piece that ALL choirs will enjoy!!!
This blue-grassy down-home piece is accessible to virtually any choir, a total blast to sing, speaks straight to the heart and makes the world a better place. Email me at mychoralmusic@gmail.com if interested! Recording of “Shine”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dua8dagha55jx18/Shine-%20Chorale%20%28Sept.%2027%29.mp3?dl=0 Score of “Shine”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2620axc954ffzd/Shine.pdf?dl=0
ACDA Genesis Prize-winning “Holding Our Breath” by October Project’s Julie Flanders and composer Carlos Cordero to be performed by EXIGENCE at Kennedy Center
“With each breath, we get to choose the way we live. Will we choose love? Or harm? Care or apathy? Rather than harm, we choose harmony. Music is a powerful way to foster higher forms of awareness and to help resolve dissonance.” – Julie Flanders, Poet/Lyricist “During such a challenging time for all, and even […]