Schedule at Y a Glance 8:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Registration Open A 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Exhibits Open 9:45 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Interest Sessions D 10:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Blue Track Concert Session 10:30 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. Gold Track Concert Session R 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Interest Sessions 1:15 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Blue Track Concert Session FEBRUARY 28 FEBRUARY U 1:15 P.M. - 3:40 P.M. Gold Track Concert Session 4:15 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. Gold Track Concert Session T 4:15 P.M. - 6:40 P.M. Blue Track Concert Session 8:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. A A Grand Night for Singing Open to Both Tracks S SATURDAY DETAILED SCHEDULE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 DETAILED SCHEDULE ALL DAY 8:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Face-to-Face Opportunities Registration Open Publisher Reading Session Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Palace Convention Center Alliance Music Publications Exhibit Hall C Exhibit Hall C Salt Palace Convention Center Visit Repertoire & Standards Meeting Room 150 G Resource Areas 8:30 A.M. - 9:30 A.M. Salt Palace Convention Center Ethnic & Multicultural Choirs Publisher Reading Session Exhibit Halls A & B Reading Session Pana Musica Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Palace Convention Center Wall of Honor Ballroom B & D Meeting Room 150 D, E & F Salt Palace Convention Center Exhibit Hall C Male Choirs 9:30 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. Booth # 420 Reading Session College/Community Assembly Hall Latin American Honor Choir 7:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Rehearsal #7 Temple University Alumni Two-Year College Choirs Salt Palace Convention Center Reunion Breakfast Reading Session Ballroom I Hosted by Janet Yamron Salt Palace Convention Center Trofi Restaurant Meeting Room 254 A, B & C 9:45 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Hilton City Center Ethnic & Multicultural Perspectives 255 SW Temple 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion Exhibits Open Performance Practices of Ethnic Salt Palace Convention Center Choral Music Exhibit Halls A, B, C & D Salt Palace Convention Center Ballroom B & D Men’s Choir Roundtable Discussion Conducting Men’s Choirs Strategies for Sucess: A Panel Discussion Assembly Hall Two-Year College Choirs Roundtable Discussion Speechless Rehearsals: Achieving Much More by Saying Nothing at All Salt Palace Convention Center Meeting Room 254 A, B & C 112 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 55 Number 7 / 2015 ACDA National Conference Program Book CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Youth and Student Activities ciples, this session will focus on raising ity repertoire ideas appropriate for Roundtable Discussion the common denominator of vocal developing choirs of all types. Much of The Art of Being ability across an entire choir. Can your this repertoire will be ideal for choir a Student Conductor choir sing in a harmonically rich, vocally programs on a small budget. energized fashion while still blending Salt Palace Convention Center Andrea Solya, presenter beautifully and singing perfectly in tune? Meeting Room 250 C & F Absolutely! Discover how to remove Scan for a photo both the effort and the blandness out and bio of 9:45 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. of ensemble singing and replace them Andrea Solya. with self-sustaining, three-dimensional Interest Sessions: sound that will transform the way your Choose from six options choir feels about what it does. Leave Karyl Carlson, presider with a new vocabulary and means of State President, Illinois A Cappella Pop: conveying important vocal concepts. A Complete Guide to State-of-the-art acoustical analyses will Contemporary A Cappella Singing Reconsidering the Renaissance: be provided. Salt Palace Convention Center Sixteenth-Century Choral Music Laurier Fagnan, presenter Ballroom A, C & E for Women’s Choir Salt Palace Convention Center This session will teach you everything Scan for a photo and bio of Meeting Room 251 C & F you need to get started in the fastest- Laurier Fagnan. growing vocal genre—contemporary The choral canon offers a seemingly a cappella. Pentatonix, Pitch Perfect, and small amount of Renaissance music The Sing-Off have swept the nation. Use this popularity to your advantage! Bill Podolski, presider Topics covered include: arrangements, State President, Virginia sound reinforcement, vocal percussion, rehearsal techniques, recording, and The Perfect Repertoire for the style considerations. Not-So-Perfect Choir Brody McDonald, presenter Salt Palace Convention Center Scan for a photo Meeting Room 251 A & D and bio of Brody McDonald. This session will explore repertoire and resources from the Renaissance to the 1900s suitable for less expe- Vincent Oakes, presider rienced and not-well-balanced en- State President, Tennessee sembles with or without instrumental accompaniment. Composers such as Gabrieli, Schütz, Schein, Scheidt, Ham- The Bel Canto Choral merschmidt, Rauch, Caldara, Haydn, Transformation Mozart, Schumann, and Fauré will Salt Palace Convention Center be included. Common performance Meeting Room 250 A & D practice and its practical applications Choral blend does not have to be will also be discussed. Attendees will bland! Using key bel canto vocal prin- leave this presentation with new, qual- CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 55 Number 7 / 2015 ACDA National Conference Program Book 113 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 DETAILED SCHEDULE originally written for women’s voices. Kathryn Kelly Longo, presenter a sound beginning for performers, However, a surge in musicological teachers, students, and listeners. The Scan for a photo research over the last thirty years “singing classroom” begins with folk and bio of Kathryn provides evidence that women in tunes of many kinds, performing them Kelly Longo. the Renaissance were engaged in well, and discussing what makes them active musical expression and re- memorable. Upon progressing to veals a wealth of repertoire that was group improvisation and writing, the Marvin Latimer, presider performed by women’s ensembles in class learns theoretical practice and State President, Alabama the sixteenth century. This session will vocabulary through actual song. His- briefl y summarize the research that fo- torically, the next step is counterpoint cuses on women’s role in sacred music rather than harmony. This curriculum during the Renaissance and provide A Revolutionary Approach to moves to a discussion of the answer- examples of specifi c repertoire that Teaching Music Theory ing voice: how to create a musical was performed by women. Practical Salt Palace Convention Center response to a heard tune. Hear. Sing. suggestions for historically informed Meeting Room 355 B, C, E & F Improvise. Write. Share. Based on Alice interpretation of this repertoire for Parker’s books The Anatomy of Melody modern women’s choirs will be dis- A melody-based curriculum will con- and The Answering Voice. nect the student’s prior experience cussed. Alice Parker, presenter with the world of theory, providing Scan for a photo and bio of CONDUCTORS! Alice Parker. STOP BY BOOTH #1006 AT EXHIBITS IN SALT LAKE CITY AND ENTER TO WIN TWO FREE AIRLINE TICKETS TO NEW YORK CITY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE USA Daniel Bishop, presider National Repertoire & Standards Chair, Senior High School Choirs Composer's Track The Cutting Edge Salt Palace Convention Center Meeting Room 253 A & B Four of the nation’s foremost conduc- tors—Mark Shapiro (Cantori New York), Donald Nally (Philadelphia, The Crossing), Robert Geary (San WHAT MAKES GREAT TOURS HAPPEN? 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Schirmer 52318 Composer Commissioned by ACDA for this premier performance, sponsored by 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. Classical Movements Publisher Reading Session Island Songs Stephen Leek @musicRUTGERS Shawn Kirchner Publishing Monkey and Turtle Salt Palace Convention Center Trade Winds THE MM OR DMA IN Meeting Room 150 G Morning Tide CHORAL CONDUCTING Morton 0409 » Abundant podium time » Conducting opportunities with professional instrumentalists, both on campus 10:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Scan for a photo and in New York City and bio of Blue Track Concert Session » Generous financial support Bob Chilcott. » A focused, selective grad program with an Abravanel Hall excellent placement record Jo-Michael Scheibe, presider WORLD-CLASS FACULTY National Vice President 11:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Patrick Gardner Alexander W. Dreyfoos Director of Choral Activities 10:15 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. Conductor, Kirkpatrick Choir School of the Arts Singers Rutgers University Glee Club Student Conducting Awards Arlene Graham Sparks, Colin Britt, DMA candidate conductor Conductor, University Choir Hingrid Kujawinski, DMA candidate 10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. Conductor, Voorhees Choir Sing Joyfully Middle School/Junior High Boys Honor Choir William Byrd Repertoire 2014-2015 Oxford Tudor Anthems Rossini: Stabat Mater | Dvoˇrák: Stabat Mater Bob Chilcott, conductor Alice Tully Hall, April 25, 2015 Ballade to the Moon Recent Repertoire Down to the River to Pray Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex Traditional Daniel Elder J.S.