[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Your church or Community centre sets up the concerts. Your committee deals with the finances and the social events. Your musical director teac...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I had a friend who moved to a new town and set up a new choir, blissfully ignorant of the 100+ Community chorus that already existed there.   phot...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned Community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from almost 30 years of leading non-auditioned Community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions ac...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from almost 30 years of leading non-auditioned Community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions ac...

I will praise thee O Lord is a new composition from Mr. Frimpong Kwame Darkwa and sung by him

Recorded in April/May 2021 Alexandra Beliakovich, Piano Jason C. Tramm, Conductor Quinton Tramm, Audio/Video Engineer Members of the Seton Hall University Chorus Ocean Grove Great Auditorium Choir Taghkanic Chorale Morris Choral Society @Jason Tramm

Hofstra Chamber Choir performing Jussi Chydenius' "I am the Great Sun (The Chamber Choir comprises the front half or so of this group, thus the non-singing members of Chorale you see in the back... :) David Fryling, Conductor April 2012, Cathedral of...  moreHofstra Chamber Choir performing Jussi Chydenius' "I am the Great Sun (The Chamber Choir comprises the front half or so of this group, thus the non-singing members of Chorale you see in the back... :) David Fryling, Conductor April 2012, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, NY  

Music and Lyrics by Santiago Veros https://www.santiagoveros.site Commissioned by The Cantabile Singers - Chris Bowman, conductor Kings Chorale - Bill Perrot, conductor Dedicated with a deep feeling to Bill Perrot, Chris Bowman, Christine Crofu...  moreMusic and Lyrics by Santiago Veros https://www.santiagoveros.site Commissioned by The Cantabile Singers - Chris Bowman, conductor Kings Chorale - Bill Perrot, conductor Dedicated with a deep feeling to Bill Perrot, Chris Bowman, Christine Crofut Carpenter, Elaine Farrar Kondrat, Howard Dawson, Joy Hewitt and Marti Dawson Galaxias We are all stars, we are to illuminate and be illuminated by those around us. This piece will always remain in my heart because it has been the result of the commission of very luminous people who have given me warmth while I was recovering from a hard setback of health. This work is the adventure of mutual support. We are lighting our way but the neighboring stars -those people who are our loved ones on any plane of existence- create and guide that way with more light than we are capable of perceiving. Lyrics And the shadow of twilight fades when the light of the ancestors forms a mantle that protects and guides us. A being illuminating the galaxies The c...    less