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September 2015 ChoraLink
 Registration for the Boston "Pushing Boundaries" conference goes live tomorrow, Thursday, October 1st! I can't tell you how excited I am for you to visit www.acdaeast.org/boston. There you'll find an in-depth preview of what awaits you in the Back Bay -- as well as links to book your hotel room and to register for the conference, of course.
In anticipation of the conference registration opening, we've brought you a new ACDA East Blog post every Monday of September -- they're each highlighted below in case you missed them.
 And I have many more conference-related posts lined up for October. Stay tuned to learn from more people who know best what will make this conference a must-not-miss event. And then join us in Boston in February!
As always, I'm listening, and I'm here to serve.
ACDA Eastern Division President
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Nominations open for Helen Kemp Award
 The ACDA Eastern Division calls for nominations for the 2016 Helen Kemp Award for Lifetime Commitment to Excellence in Choral Music. The award, initiated in 2010 and named in honor of its first awardee, honors an individual who, through teaching, performing, and sharing, exhibits a lifelong passion and commitment to the choral art. To submit a nomination, please click here.
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Student Opportunities
- A maximum of ten (10) Kegerreis Student Scholarships will be awarded to college and university students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the Eastern Division Conference in Boston, MA, each in the amount of $400. Applications must be submitted no later than November 2, 2015.
- We are looking for Student ACDA members to volunteer to work at the ACDA Eastern Division Conference held in Boston on February 10-13, 2016. In exchange for your service, part or all of your conference registration fee will be waived! Apply to be a volunteer today!
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See you in Boston!
 ACDA Boston is months away, but it is already bringing back great memories for me of ACDA Eastern Division conferences of the past. Philadelphia, 1994 (favorite memory of this, my first-ever conference: Frank Albinder, then music director of Chanticleer, actually making conversation with me); Pittsburgh, 2000 (breathtaking double-bill of St. Olaf Choir and Westminster Choir - never before or since have Sarah Hopkins's Past Life Melodies and Schönberg's Friede auf Erden sounded so magnificent...Read the rest at the ACDA East Blog.
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Conference Discoveries!
by Amelia Nagoski
Research Initiatives
I don't have much opportunity to alter my routine: teaching, conducting, score prep, meetings. Wash, rinse, repeat. It's easy to forget that there's a whole world outside my rehearsal room that's influencing my students, singers, audience, and administration. Thankfully, there are passionate, brilliant people looking deeply into the world we inhabit and finding ways we can stay more connected to the past, the present, and the future, and how we can use those connections to make our work more beautiful and more meaningful
...Read the rest at the ACDA East Blog
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Reflections, Change, and Opportunity
by Sal Cicciarella
Together we Sing chair
When reminiscing about my early days as a high school choral director, I remember anxiously waiting for two very important events: the closing of school for summer break, and finding choral catalog's in my teacher's mailbox-creating a summer long reading project of music choices. Our concert selection process has certainly come a long way...Read the rest at the ACDA East Blog
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