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CHORAL JOURNAL
From the EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITOR

EDITOR
The last year has been challenging for everyone in a AMANDA BUMGARNER

number of different ways, personally and professionally. ACDA National Offi ce
405-232-8161 (ex. 205)
The way we rehearse, teach, sing, and even compose has abumgarner@acda.org
changed. As a result, we have tried to adapt the content
ACDA provides through weekly membership emails MANAGING EDITOR
and our publications to be the most helpful during RON GRANGER
Amanda Bumgarner this time. I am grateful for those who have submitted ACDA National Offi ce
405-232-8161
articles related to COVID, and we have adjusted our rgranger@acda.org
publication schedule nearly every month to accommodate COVID-related
content. EDITORIAL BOARD
This month’s April issue includes two articles on rehearsing and conducting
SEAN MICHAEL BURTON
during COVID—“Conducting During COVID: What is possible and how has seanburtonmusic@gmail.com
the role of the conductor changed?” (Rachel Carlson and Scot Hanna-Weir)
MARQUES L. A. GARRETT
and “Choral Rehearsals During COVID: Examining Singer Engagement”
marques.garrett@unl.edu
(Matthew Swanson, Eva Floyd, and David Kirkendall). There is also a
selection of Choral Reviews from Sandra Chandler and an article in our On STEVE GRIVES
smgrives@gmail.com
the Voice series—“Categorizing and Notating Timbres for Vocal Ensembles”
(Fahad Siadat). MICHAEL PORTER
Our cover article features a study of Marianna von Martines’s Dixit michaelporter2@boisestate.edu
Dominus by Joseph Taff. Martines (1744-1812) wrote Dixit Dominus in 1774, DEBRA SPURGEON

and the piece, writes the author of this feature article, “presents a masterful dspurg@olemiss.edu
assimilation of Baroque and galant traits. This article applies a style-conscious WILLIAM WEINERT
lens to the analysis of several facets of the composition: overall structure and wweinert@esm.rochester.edu
tonal plan, structure of individual movements, orchestral and choral texture,
GISELLE WYERS
phrase structure and use of galant schemata, harmony, and approaches to the wyersg@uw.edu
text. It also compares the work to the well-known earlier setting of the same
text by George Frideric Handel (HWV 232).” COLUMN EDITORS
Mark Nabholz’s feature article, “Mozart, Süßmayr, and Musical
DUANE COTTRELL
Propaganda: Revaluing Political Choral Music for Modern Performance,”
dco@udel.edu
traces the composition, compilation, and premiere of an important example
of political music from the Napoleonic Era in Vienna, through direct CHRISTOPHER EANES
eanesc@gmail.com
examination of the cantata, Der Retter in Gefahr, by Franz Xaver Süßmayr
(1766-1803). KYLE HANSON

Finally, D. Geoffrey Bell shares an interview with three Canadian choral kyhanson88@gmail.com
composers: Larry Nickel, Nancy Telfer, and Jon Washburn. This is part one BRYAN E. NICHOLS
in a two-part interview series. Part two will feature interviews with Canadian bnichols@psu.edu
composers: Matthew Emery, Sarah Quartel, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Laura JASON PAULK
Hawley, and Tracy Wong. This interview includes questions on the composers’ jason.paulk@enmu.edu
musical journeys, composing challenges, and essential elements for new
GREGORY PYSH
repertoire. gpysh@fpcmid.org

LAURA WIEBE
lwiebe@centralmethodist.edu

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