Last week’s 2013 ACDA National Conference may now be a memory, but the shouting is FAR from over. Throughout this week and next, a number of ChoralNet commentators will give you a taste of the incredible energy that simply engulfed the Dallas Arts District during the ACDA invasion. Beginning today and continuing every Monday […]
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Over 300 published pages spread across several issues of the Choral Journal. Multiple hundreds of postings on ChoralNet, ACDA’s website, ACDA divisional & state sites, and the Association’s various sundry web properties. Incalculable numbers of calls, e-mails, and mailings; to say nothing of the unfathomable amount of individual commentary on various social media sites. Now […]
Composition Spotlight: The Lord’s Prayer
COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig (Each week we look at a piece of useful repertoire from the ChoralNet Community Composition Showcase. A variety of voicings and levels of difficulty will be presented. Enjoy!) The Lord's Prayer by Dustin Oldenburg SATB a cappella (click for PDF and AUDIO) Level: High School or higher Uses: Sacred, General […]
Stick Time: Just One Way to Attract More Guys
Most of us in the choral profession are on a near-constant hunt for more male singers. That is not to say that the females in our choirs are not valued; it’s just that, well, guys are somewhat scarce by comparison. It is a challenge for choirs representing all ages; from boys to adult singers. […]
CJ Replay: Japanese Choral Music
(Yesterday’s “Stick Time” column on ChoralBuzz featured a choral work accompanied by Koto. Today we continue examining Japanese choral music with an excerpt from the Choral Journal article “Choral Music in Japan: A Hybrid Art” by Anthony J. Palmer) Japanese choral music has adapted a Western form and transformed it by fusing it […]
Stick Time: Choir and Koto
When thinking of the instruments that usually accompany a choral work, one might immediately list piano, organ, a wind instrument or two, or perhaps strings. How about the Koto? Wait . . . Koto!? That’s not an instrument that comes to mind. Though it’s a beautiful and haunting instrument, there aren’t a lot of Koto […]