Just in case we have to take another lap…are you prepared? In the first year of the pandemic, the General Accounting Office posted results of their research in 2020-21, the first year of the pandemic (GAO, May 2022). They depicted the obstacles to learning – what we all experienced to some degree – like this: […]
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Welcome to Graphite: Jennifer Lucy Cook!
Welcome to Graphite: Jennifer Lucy Cook! Contributing Editor: Jonathan Campbell Graphite proudly welcomes Jennifer Lucy Cook! Her music is fresh, colorful, and vibrant, infused with an open embrace of popular idioms. She likes to “get into a groove” with pop rhythms which are then layered with melodic ideas. In addition, her scores are laced with imagery. […]
Why Rhythm Is Foundational in Sight-Reading
by Stuart Hunt The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as “the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.“1 To that is often added, something like the following: Sounds and silences organized in time. A pattern of regular or irregular pulses, some stronger some […]
November/December Choral Journal Preview
The November/December issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the articles you will find in this issue, which features a collection of articles on the voice. ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. If […]
The Belonging Buffet
Obvious: All humans need to feel connected and have a sense of belonging. Less obvious: Teacher’s have less power to actually achieve this with all students than we think. We can WELCOME all students. But belonging has to be mutual and organic. Hot take: not ALL students need this from their school or ALL of their […]
Tactus SF presents CounterCulture: Music of the Marginalized
Tactus SF presents CounterCulture: Music of the Marginalized Elizabeth Kimble, Music Director Susan Swerdlow, Associate Conductor with musical guests Eugene Petrushansky and Sue Jones November 5th, 2022 at 4pm St Matthew’s Lutheran Church 3281 16th St San Francisco, CA November 6th, 2022 at 4pm St Alban’s Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Ave. Albany, CA […]