Judy Rounda

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The Elephant in the Room RST Labs

Judy Rounda, Brendan Shaffick, and Schneata Shyne-Turner were enrolled in Berklee Online songwriting class, with Neil Diercks as the instructor, when Neil offered a choice to collaborate on a song with groups he assigned by the first letters of last names. One other person was assigned to their group, but she chose not to participate. The RST Labs collaboration group met and wrote their first song for that assignment, called The Elephant in the Room, in…

Announcing 2023 Contest Winners:

Robert Richter and Judy Rounda

February 06, 2023 

Patrick Kronner

The Notre Dame Magnificat Choir is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Liturgy Alive! composition contest:

Second Place ($1,250 prize): Judy Rounda (Leavenworth, Kansas) for her setting of Vivifícanos for unaccompanied women’s choir (SSA)

Judy Rounda, 2023 Liturgy Alive! second prize winner 

Judith Rounda began her piano studies at the age of 8 with Mrs. Doris Lee Frost in Leavenworth, Kansas. After…

"If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before supper." I'm still searching for anyone who has heard of this superstition. It never dawned on me until many years after Mom had passed away that she might have invented this superstition for me when I was small. Perhaps I rose up singing too often so early in the morning. I remember listening to records on my own record player, singing and making up songs, continuing into kindergarten, where my teacher wrote on my report card that I was her "songbird" as I…