University of Utah Chamber and A cappella Choirs sing "America the Beautiful" Arr. by Dr. Barlow Bradford in the Libby Gardner Concert hall for their Fall 2012 Concert, Directed by Dr. Barlow Bradford, accompanied by Jared Pierce

The Antioch Chamber Ensemble sings I Thank you God for most this amazing day, by Eric Whitacre. March 30, 2012 at St. Paul's Chapel in NYC.

Napadly Písně v duši mou No. 1 from Five Nature Songs by Antonín Dvořák CorISTAnbul Chamber Choir Music and Choral Director: Arda Ardaşes Agoşyan Assistant Director: Natali Boğosyan Concert Recording, June 9, 2012 St. Esprit Church, Istanbul

Barlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists perform "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun". Bradford put Walt Whitman's words from Leaves of Grass to music in this choral work. GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy a...  moreBarlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists perform "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun". Bradford put Walt Whitman's words from Leaves of Grass to music in this choral work. GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard; Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows; Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape; Give me fresh corn and wheat—give me serene-moving animals, teaching content; Give me nights perfectly quiet, and I looking up at the stars; Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturb'd; Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman, of whom I should never tire; Give me a perfect child—give me, away, aside from the noise of the world, a rural, domestic life; Give me to warble spontaneous songs, reliev'd, recluse by myself, for my own ears only; Give me solitude—give me Nature—give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!  less

The Antioch Chamber Ensemble sings the world premiere of Paul Mealor's Drop, Drop, Slow Tears on March 30, 2012 at St. Paul's Chapel in NYC. Martha Cluver, soprano soloist.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I started my first Community Choir over 20 years ago. I used to worry that, after the long summer break, the singers would have forgotten me and wouldn’...

Thomas Rossin conducts the Exultate Chamber Choir & Orchestra in Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei / Adagio for Strings.

The Embro Thistle Singers or ETS is a group of Community members who joined together in February of 2010 to have fun with choral music. The Embro area is well known for having very talented people and we have added to the Embro talent with people from Wo...  moreThe Embro Thistle Singers or ETS is a group of Community members who joined together in February of 2010 to have fun with choral music. The Embro area is well known for having very talented people and we have added to the Embro talent with people from Woodstock, Ingersoll, Thamesford, Cambridge, London. Our goal is to make a great choral sound by learning and working together. We sing both the classics and the fun songs but our chief goals are that we have FUN while being of service to our communities!!!  less

IV. THE SWEET COLD WATER We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. Texts by Rumi, translated by Colem...  moreIV. THE SWEET COLD WATER We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. 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 poems by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi, in English translations from the Persian by Coleman Barks, for double Choir and organ. The poetry sings of literal and spiritual connections between water and sky, a drop of water and human life, flowing water and love, drinking water and its container, the giddiness of spring and rolling seas, and the ocean's gifts and singing. Its images, from 800 years ago, speak to us with both vivid immediacy and transcendence. The idea for the piece originated with the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, which propo...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] When I started my most recent Community Choir The OK Chorale back in 2011 I decided it wasn’t going to be a performing Choir.     Brig...