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Oct 14, 2026
Steve DanielsonHOST
Yeah.
Steve DanielsonHOST
Hello and welcome to the ACDA podcast for October 2026.
Steve DanielsonHOST
I'm your host, producer, editor, and a guy who loves to watch British comedies, Steve Danielson.
Steve DanielsonHOST
I'm here to bring you up to date on all things ACDA.
Steve DanielsonHOST
Well, happy October everyone, though I guess it's halfway over already.
Steve DanielsonHOST
Everyone is back at it, at school, in rehearsal, preparing for fall concerts, or already working on a winter or holiday concert.
Steve DanielsonHOST
It's what we thrive on.
Steve DanielsonHOST
It's what we do.
speaker_1HOST
Hats off to Team DB, Doug Bowes, and our Pickham winner in Week 5.
speaker_1HOST
While Doug's picks were panning out, Yours truly was recovering from a full Saturday that saw me sing in a choir for the first time in a decade, rejoining Vanguard Voices, the Dearborn community choir that I sang with a decade ago, for a performance at ACDA, the Choral Directors Association State Conference out at Alma College.
speaker_1HOST
It was...
speaker_1HOST
A lot of fun to be back under the lights in a choral capacity.
Michael Bussewitz-QuarmGUEST
I started, you know, as piano students moved on, which they do after a while, you know, I would, I wouldn't take any new students on.
Michael Bussewitz-QuarmGUEST
And eventually I gave notice at the church and, and, and, left the church and my first conference as a composer exhibiting having a table at a conference was the ACDA Eastern Conference in 2016 in Boston and it's Been a whirlwind since then, ups and downs.
Michael Bussewitz-QuarmGUEST
And I've certainly learned a lot since that first time when I had photocopies of my scores that were partially engraved properly, you know, that first particular conference.
Michael Bussewitz-QuarmGUEST
But I put myself out there and I'm so grateful that I did.
Joshua OppenheimHOST
Yeah
Katerina GimonGUEST
... shortly after she was like, "Hey, I'm bringing it to something called ACDA Conference.
Katerina GimonGUEST
It's a big deal.
Katerina GimonGUEST
You might-
Katerina GimonGUEST
Um, but I-
Joshua OppenheimHOST
So which c- which, which, uh, conference was this? Was this a regional-
Katerina GimonGUEST
So this was ACDA 2019, um, national conference in Kansas City.
Joshua OppenheimHOST
Oh, yeah.
Matthew MyersHOST
So we've gotten to work with a bunch of the same people too.
Matthew MyersHOST
But I really got to know Morgan as ACDA regional membership chairs over the last couple of years, doing our service to ACDA and kind of checking in on each other from the different regions, we learn a lot from the ideas that the other people have.
Matthew MyersHOST
So that's great.
Matthew MyersHOST
And then I got to spend some time with Morgan in Portugal this summer as part of the International Conducting Exchange Program, which we'll talk about a little bit more later in the podcast too.