Say hi to us in Milwaukee at the Michigan ACDA Social Hour on Thursday, February 25 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Cocktail Lounge!
Do you direct a male choir? High school? Community? Collegiate? Middle school? Church? Professional? If yes, we’re looking for your favorite male choir repertoire. Please send suggestions or repertoire lists to ACDA-MI Male Choir R&S Steve Lorenz.
Check out the following repertoire lists:
Sing for Justice at EMU by Liza Calisesi Maidens ACDA-MIchigan Women’s Choirs R&R Chair Greetings, Michigan Choral Musicians! My name is Liza Calisesi Maidens and I am new to the Board as of August 2017. I served as Concerts Chair this past fall at the ACDA-MI Conference and was pleased to get to know many…
Why attend Conferences, Conventions and Workshops? Well, for me, it was 1973. I’d been teaching seven years, and resisted going anywhere for anything extra, due to the amount of time my jobs consumed that would take me away from my family. I was teaching high school and also a church choir, plus having some private…
by Gabriela Hristova, ACDA-MI Past President Teaching and making music with a choir is a complex process. I would compare it with the playing of an instrument, except that the instrument in our case is a group of people with various personalities and emotional sensitivity, different life experiences, and individual understanding of music as an…
by Jessica Allen, University of Michigan Doctoral Student ACDA-Michigan Graduate Student Representative At the ACDA-Michigan state conference Saturday, October 24, I had the opportunity to sit down with headliner Joe Miller for a brief interview. Dr. Miller, currently the Director of Choral Activities at Westminster Choir College, has strong ties to choral music in the state…
Please remember to complete the online voting and strategic planning survey. Also, the following letter will be of interest to Women’s Choir directors: Dear Ms. Kerwin, I wanted to make sure that you, as Women’s Choir R&S Chair for ACDA-MI, are aware of a great new composer, great new piece, and a great new publishing…
Michigan Male Chorus Network by Matthew Packer ACDA-Michigan Male Chorus R&R Chair “Those who wish to sing always find a song.” ― Swedish Proverb I write this having recently returned from Western Michigan University and the 2017 Fall Conference of the Michigan Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. There was much singing and songs to be…
