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Advice for Better Conducting and Rehearsing by Noah Horn, ACDA-Michigan Co-Representiative for College & University R&R The following advice comes from the instruction of many students whom I have taught at Wayne State University and Western Michigan University since 2014, including M.M. choral conducting students and undergraduate assistant conductors for various ensembles. I share these…
Gender Specific Choirs for 5th and 6th Grade Singers by Garth Starr, Northeastern Lower Michigan Area Representative For the last two years I have been given the privilege to isolate my vocal music classes by gender. I teach eight classes of fifth and sixth grade students every day for nine weeks and then I get a…
Children’s Honors Choir at ACDA Michigan 2017 Fall Conference by Megan Higle ACDA-MI Youth Choir R&R Representative ATTENTION YOUTH & CHILDREN’S CHOIRS! ACDA-MI is thrilled and excited to announce Judy Hanson of the Chicago Children’s Choir as our director of the Children’s Honor Choir at our October 2017 conference. Children and Youth Choirs from across the…
Shaping Dynamics in Historical Music: A New Performance Edition of Josquin Desprez for Two-Part Treble Chorus by Alan Gumm ACDA-MI Women’s Chorus R&R Representative As commonly taught in music history, composers came to add expressive markings in music in stages. For centuries there were no special markings to specify details of a composer’s intentions. In…
A Conversation with Dr. Carol Beynon Jessica L. Allen, ACDA-MI Graduate Student Representative On November 1, 2016, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Carol Beynon, one of ACDA Michigan’s fall conference headliners, to ask her some follow-up questions and satisfy some of my own curiosities. Dr. Beynon is the founding co-artistic director…
by Thomas Blue ACDA-MI R&R Chair for Junior High/Middle School Choirs Editor’s Note: The following is an outline of a session presented at the ACDA-Michigan 2016 Fall Conference. A related article will be published in the Winter, 2017 Edition of ACDA ChorTeach. Using the reading packet as a guide, the presenter shared ideas, strategies and “thoughts along the…
by Jed Scott, ACDA Executive Board Webmaster/Editor Social Media – the joy and bane of 2016, no? One of the reasons I stay with it is because of things like this: it was through Facebook that I heard about Andrea Ramsey’s recently completed commission, “But A Flint Holds Fire.” It was conceived as a work…
ACDA-Michigan Male Choral Festival 2016 Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:00 a.m. (arrival time)-4:30 p.m. Pease Auditorium Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan Clinician: Dr. Eugene Rogers, Director, University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club and Repertory and Resources Chair for Male Choirs for the ACDA Central Division Co-hosts: The Eastern Michigan University Men’s Chorus, Dr. Brandon Johnson,…
by Megan Higle, Boychoir and Children’s Choirs R&R Chair Greetings to you from the R&R Chair for Boychoirs and Children’s Choirs! I’m going to simply dive right in…moving to a new city (from Detroit to Lansing) and restarting my conducting career has brought me new opportunities and challenges. Opportunity: As a church musician, having the opportunity…
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…
