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National ACDA Honor Choir Call for Screeners
ACDA National Honor Choirs are seeking volunteer choral educators to serve as application screeners for the 2027 National Conference Honor Choirs. Volunteers must be current ACDA members with at least three years of teaching experience who currently teach or have taught the grade level of the respective Honor Choir. Selected screeners will review approximately 100–150…
Dr. Milton Olssen, 2011 Recipient
Milton Olsson holds degrees in Music Theory and Composition from Wayne State University in Detroit and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) in the Literature and Performance of Choral Music. At Wayne State he studied with Dr. Harry Langsford, Prof. Malcolm Johns, and Dr. Ruth Wylie. At CU, Milt…
Past-President, Deborah Fristad
Deborah Fristad is recently retired from Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, MI, where she had been teaching since 1997. She conducted three choirs, five select ensembles, two show choirs, and co-directed the spring musical. She also served as department chair for the Visual and Performing Arts Department. In May, 2013 her Women’s Ensemble…
ACDA-MI Male Choirs R&S Blog – Repertoire: MI Community Male Choirs
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: Langsford Men’s Chorus Measure for Measure
Methods for Student Teaching and Research: The Value of Extra Field Experience
Obtaining field experience in music education is a very important part of a college student’s growth. Most (if not all) institutions require that students obtain a certain number of hours observing and working with students prior to their student teaching assignments. Historically speaking, this was not always the case, as institutions would not require…
