[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn songs.   Photo by Ramesh Lalwani   I decided to associa...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   Staring at a blank page waiting for the muse to strike. Slumped in a chair waiting to feel energised enough to go jogging. Feeling down and the last ...

the Major Minors Children's Choir (aged 5-12) are really looking forward to their concert  "One Small Voice" on Sunday June 8th.   the New Zealand based choir have been working on a variety of songs and this fun concert has something for every...

voices: ChoralTracks https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Psalm_67_(Scott_Villard)

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   there are some workshop and choir leaders who work through fear. they are not particularly nice people, but they do get good results.   phot...

ENTERING the SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. they get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the sam...  moreENTERING the SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. they get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the same, not for a second! What makes others grieve, they enjoy! When they look angry, don't believe their faces. It's spring lightning, a joke before the rain. they chew thorns thoughtfully along with pasture grass. Gazelle and lioness, having dinner. Love is invisible except here, in us. Sometimes I praise love; sometimes love praises me. Love, a little shell somewhere on the ocean floor, opens its mouth. You and I and we, those imaginary beings, enter that shell as a single sip of seawater. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six...    less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   I love to sing harmony. In fact, that’s pretty much the only time I sing!     WorldSong choir, Coventry   But to do that you ne...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   I want to share with you how I view open-access community choirs.     I’d like to think that the choirs I run are a bit different from...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   I’m going to fess up here: I’ve never really been in a choir.     Choir of the Munich University of Applied Sciences by Mark Kam...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog from the Front of the Choir]   I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike:   “Where do you get all your songs from?”     Well, here...