Going Beyond Words

Going Beyond Words w/ Stan Schmidt Show 2318 – Choral Thoughts of Canadian Composers This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio Host Stan Schmidt takes you North of the border for Choral Thoughts of Canadian Composers.   As Choral directors we use a large quota of our time looking for the right piece for the […]

Host Stan Schmidt invites you to hear the U.S. broadcast premiere of Oratorium Nativitatis by Slovenian composer Damijan Močnik. This Going Beyond Words premiere is heard now on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet.   Four years ago this talented composer allowed Going Beyond Words to premiere his Passion according to St. John. There are three important CDs to be heard on this broadcast. […]

This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to an Encore performance of a program titles “Serious World Choral Enunciations”. You can recall a song of Praise based on Psalm 96 by Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw (1929-2000) performed by the Kölner Kantorei directed by Volker Hempfling; A Memorial for those who […]

Featuring the Riverside City College Chamber Singers directed by John Byun & The Atlanta Master Chorale guided by Eric Nelson recorded live at the ACDA National Convention March 2017 in Minneapolis

This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Going Beyond Words Host, Stan Schmidt invites you to an hour of music that is quiet with texts that can cause you to ponder why the world is so noisy when it dosen’t need to be. Composers represented are Kim André Arnesen, Wolfram Buchenberg, Patrick Hawes, Anthony Maglione […]

This week on ACDA Radio and ChoralNet, Going Beyond Words with Host Stan Schmidt helps you lean into the winds of Reformation history with four new releases from the Carus Record Company of Germany. You will hear several important melodies created by Martin Luther and how during subsequent centuries, composers such at J.S.Bach, Johann Fischer, […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA ChoralNet Radio, Stan Schmidt invites you to investigate a comparison of motets based on Psalms 95 or 96 under the title “O Come, Let us Sing unto the Lord” (Cantate Domino).   You can hear how twelve different composes created their interpretations of these Psalms of Praise

This fall we celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and the Music of Martin Luther.  Host Stan Schmidt starts us moving in that direction for our next Going Beyond Words broadcast on ACDA Radio.  Also, please examine the informative article in the August 2017 of the Choral Journal on page 36 by Zebulon M. Highben from Muskingum University titled “Reviving Sacred Song – 500 years of the Lutheran Chorale and its congregational and Choral Contexts”

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt echoes a show he created in January 26, 2014.   The Composer’s Prodigious Pen will help you recall some marvelous choral works by such composers like Heinrich Schütz, Greg Smith, England’s Cecilia McDowall, Stephen Chatman from Canada, Johann Christoph Bach, Pierre Villette of France […]

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to tune up your Banjo, Violin and String Bass and prepare yourselves for a musical treat based on some of this country’s most popular gospel and hymn melodies. “Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass” by Wes Ramsey and Dr. Tim Sharp, Executive Director of the ACDA will be the feature work on the program.