[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...
[Originally published on Michael McGlynn's Wordpress site HERE, and subsequently published by On Being, December 2011] I was brought up as a Roman Catholic. My parents endeavoured to give me every opportunity to be exposed to a vast range of musi...
The choral group Albion gives concerts like no others! Its unique repertoire is made up of beautiful all-new versions of the Music of Britain and Ireland. Much-loved songs like Danny Boy, Scarborough Fair, and Jerusalem – a staple of the Last ...
He was involved in Music from his early childhood on, his father, Josef Wolfgang Ziegler, a well-known Austrian composer and choral director taught the first Musical steps to him. Singing and playing the violin became his passions. In the USA he starte...
[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 Electronic Spiritual KCKCC Multimedia Choral Showcase Featuring the Music of Michael Engelhardt Choirs from Shawnee Mission North High School and Kansas City Kansas Community College Michael Engelhardt, Juli O'Mealey, and John Stafford II, condu... more
Poem by Robert Herrick Music by David W Solomons www.dwsolo.com All parts sung by Matthew Curtis - www.choraltracks.com [Note: many composers - including Kathryn Rose, Peter Hurford, Colin Brumby and Tim Knight - have set a few verses from this poem... more
Online rehearsals have had varying degrees of success but have been successful in bringing people together and maintaining a connection when it is currently very much needed ... however, other things we are finding that Musicians and singing groups are re...
This was originally published on the Embro Thistle Singers blog. The phrase is that curved line in a piece of Music that is like climbing a mountain. You start out with lots of excitement. It is hard work to go up that slanted side an...
The men of Ottawa Choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform The Romantic Sacred piece, Spaséniye sodélal. Written by Pavel Chesnokov - an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. If you love our Music, a Donation would be apprec... more