Wow 40 years! Where did the time go? I've always been one of the oldest members of the Stairwell Carollers - if not the OLDEST - at our choir's 20th anniversary in 1997 I was 41, but still didn't look a Day over 30. Pierre had HAIR - and I sh...

The Norwegian composer's beautiful and mystifying setting of the Latin text, as performed by Aestas Vocis at their summer concert, "Songs of Faith and Love." Sung in the beautiful and resonant chapel at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Munster, IN.

Traditional African-American spiritual This concert was the culmination of a six-week project which creates a choir from scratch for one night only. Each winter and summer, Chris Rowbury gathers a random bunch of singers from in and around Ipswich. The...  moreTraditional African-American spiritual This concert was the culmination of a six-week project which creates a choir from scratch for one night only. Each winter and summer, Chris Rowbury gathers a random bunch of singers from in and around Ipswich. There are no auditions and all songs are taught and learnt by ear. Usually eight songs are learnt in six two-hour sessions and in the winter are performed at St. Peters by the Waterfront, Ipswich. http://chrisrowbury.com  

Recorded at our summer concert on July 13th 2014. We always welcome new members. Check out our website at http://northkingstonchoir.wix.com/nkc

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I was running a one-Day workshop a while back and it seemed to me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seemed uninspired, energy was low, and i...

Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How. I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos. John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.

Song of summer for choir, cello and guitar based on the duo Summertime Rag by Chris Benson In the summertime when the work was done we'd take our ease and have our fun we'd been always looking forward to the warm dry Days of sun In the summerti...  moreSong of summer for choir, cello and guitar based on the duo Summertime Rag by Chris Benson In the summertime when the work was done we'd take our ease and have our fun we'd been always looking forward to the warm dry Days of sun In the summertime we would run and sing enjoy all that the Days could bring we would laugh and wintertime would seem a very distant thing but it couldn't last and the autumn came too quickly with its wind and rain ....  

For this final week of Advent, Brethren brings the traditional Austrian Carol, "Still, Still, Still". May these words give you peace and hope as we "dream of the joyous Day to come"...

Aestas Vocis performs Eric Whitacre's gorgeous piece at the Region Summer Choir concert on August 6th 2010 at St. Thomas More church.

World Youth Choir ( WYC ) - Summer Session 2003 Switzerland - Conductress: María Guinand - Cloudburst - website: www.worldyouthchoir.org - © all rights reserved by Jürg Schönenberger, Switzerland