ACDA 2015 Music In Worship Reading Session

Hey friends! Here is the Music In Worship reading session material we sang though this morning. It was a great session. Bravo to Terre Johnson. national R and S for Music in Worship.

Composers present who conducted their own piece: Terre Johnson, Philp Stopford, Mark Hayes, Howard Helvey, and Eric Nelson. Also Dan Forrest played the piano on his piece.

Noteworthy composers who blew us off because they were maybe eating crepes Suzette or drinking German beer: Johannes Brahms, Nathaniel Dett, Heinrich Schutz.


EVEN HERE (pub. Hinshaw)

by Mark Miller, lyrics by Laurie Zelman



MAGDALENA (G Schirmer, Robt Shaw Series)

by Johnny Brahms



CREATE IN ME (MorningStar)

by Terre Johnson



HALLELUJAH, MUNGU WA ISRAELI (MorningStar)

by Ekaie Reitan and Michael Burkhardt



LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU  (MusicSpoke) http://musicspoke.com/downloads/late-loved/

by Paul Carey


LISTEN TO THE LAMBS (G Schirmer)

by Nathaniel Dett (nice job of conducting by Tony Leach!)



WHAT SWEETER MUSIC  (Hal Leoanrd)

by Philip Stopford



PILGRIM SONG  (Oxford)

by Ryan Murphy


LORD MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT (GIA)

by M. Roger Holland II


CLEFT FOR ME  (Soundforth/Lorenz)

by Mark Hayes


CANTATE DOMINO  (Concordia)

by Hank Schutz



REJOICE ALL SPIRITS! (EC Schirmer)

by Howard Helvey



ARISE, MY SOUL, ARISE  (Beckenhorst)

by Dan Forrest



LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS  (Morningstar)

by Eric Nelson

Eric's piece was my favotire of the session, but really, everything was pretty great stuff!


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The 2015 ACDA National Conference Post One

Yes, little ones, it is yet again time for the ACDA National Conference, beginning next week in Salt Lake City, which appears to be much warmer right now than my hometown of Chicago (it's five degrees here today- supposed to be five or ten below overnight-brrr).

As many of you know, I try to blog during ACDA regional and national conferences,but I'm not sure how active I will be this year. I have a funny feeling I will be too worn out from all the music and activities and pub-crawling to blog as it all happens. So I may just return to Chicago and do it after the fact. I do know that many people who can't get to a conference love hearing about what went on Maybe I can twitter a bit, we'll see.

Anyway, I am pleased to have pieces in three different reading sessions this year. And I have some details on of one of them, the Music in Worship reading session at 8:30 AM Friday, Feb 27th in ballrooms B and D of the Salt Palace Convention Center (wow, I guess you could take ANYTHING ANYONE says there with grain of salt, huh?)

Ye Olde Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah

So, if you are in Salt Lake City, please drag yourself out of bed Friday morning and come to this reading season if you can. It's a bit of an all-star lineup, and this is all great music- you'll want to hear this! There are a few composer/arrangers and conductors attending that I haven't met yet, but hope to accomplish that (Philip Stopford, for one).

My piece, a gentle little anthem called Late Have I Loved You (text by my bud St Augustine, we used to play bocce ball together) is now being published/distributed by the new company MusicSpoke. You can visit MusicSpoke's website here, read a recent blog about it here, visit their booth at the conference (booth number 8014) anytime, and you can actually come visit with me at the booth Friday afternoon betwixt 3-5 PM.

Here is the reading session info:

Terre Johnson is the R and S national chair. The accompanist will be the very talented Jonathan Crutchfield.

Terre Johnson

Here is a list of composers who will either conduct or be at the piano for their composition:

Terre Johnson
Philip Stopford
Ryan Murphy
Mark Hayes
Dan Forrest
Eric Nelson
Howard Helvey
Paul Carey
Johannes Brahms

And here are the remaining composers of the other pieces as well as the conductors.

Mark Miller
Vicky Thomas
Michel Burkhardt
Randall Bradley
Nathaniel Dett
Tony Leach
M. Roger Holland

Hope to see all y'all at SLC. It looks like an amazing conference!