Career Conferences - Music

AAJC activities include ongoing interaction and programming with Historical Black Colleges and University; national technical assistance and consulting services for the continued development of jazz related career activities; career development programs for jazz instructors, teachers, professors, music management, artists and repertoire directors, promotions, producers, recording engineers, print and broadcast media, writers, historians, critics, and music therapy; alternative academic and nonacademic Jazz instructional venues; audience development programs through the creation of a network for performances, clinics, workshops, and tours; and partnershp with the National Association of Schools of Music as Jazz curriculum evaluators, and interaction with the music industry and musician's unions.

Organized by the Alliance of Artists Communities and hosted by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, the American Creativity At Risk symposium explored the nature of human creativity and its significance in a wide range of disciplines, taking artists' communities as a model and a metaphor for fostering pure research and innovation in all sectors of society and culture. The symposium resulted in a call to action addressing the challenges and opportunities of restoring creativity as a priority in public policy, cultural philanthropy, and education. Symposium speakers and panelists included Robert MacNeil, Lewis Hyde, Brendan Gill, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Ellen Winner, David Liddle, Mary Catherine Bateson, Ned Hall, and Stewart Brand, among others. Can be ordered through the Alliance website.

The Annual Symposium and Festival features symposiums, performances and workshops dedicated to the accordion.

Festival activities will include an incredible array of accordion talent, exhibits, mass band and workshops. Next World Accordion Championships & Festival Washington, DC (Alexandria, Virginia) will take place on August 13-17, 2008.

The American Cello Council promotes professional cellists and the American and World Cello Congresses.

The editorial purpose of the Choral Journal is, first, to provide ACDA members with practical and scholarly information about choral music and its performance. Articles and topics include: choral conducting and rehearsal techniques, composers of choral music and their craft forms of choral music (motets, Masses, part songs, etc.), history of choral performance, histories of choral organizations, and biographies of conductors, history and analysis of choral music, conductor and composer viewpoints, literature on and music for various types of choruses, performance practice, style, and interpretation, composing, arranging, editing, and publishing choral music, educational techniques and philosophies, vocal pedagogy professional and artistic philosophies, esthetics research materials.The second major purpose of the Choral Journal is to provide ACDA members with organizational news about the American Choral Directors Association. Such items include letters from the president, executive director, and editor; information about conventions at the national and division levels; officer elections; proposed bylaw and constitutional changes; endowment and archives reports; and repertoire and standards committee reports.

Members receive the newsletter, membership directories, access to online job postings as well as national and local conventions and forums.

Bi-monthly organizational newsletter.

Membership benefits include journals, conferences, competitions, liability insurance, tape libraries, group health and life insurance, as well as harp insurance.

A quarterly research-oriented journal. A forum for authoritative articles of current music therapy research and theory, including book reviews and guest editorials. An index appears in issue four of each volume

The Newsletter includes: three issues annually, approximately 20 pages, generously illustrated, official notices and news of the Society's activities, short articles and communications, recent acquisition lists from member institutions, news of members, classified ads. Membership fee includes Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society as well. Available online.