[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...

Karl Jenkins: Adiemus Carmina Slovenica Orchestra Chorus Instrumentalis Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Adiemus occupied the imagination of the music-lovers all over the world. Therefore this musical work was one of the most sal...  moreKarl Jenkins: Adiemus Carmina Slovenica Orchestra Chorus Instrumentalis Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Adiemus occupied the imagination of the music-lovers all over the world. Therefore this musical work was one of the most saleable albums and reached the scale tops of classical as well as ethnical music. Karl Jenkins' popular vocal-instrumental work Adiemus belongs to a sort of symphonic music with a touch of ethnic music. To define Adiemus is the best way to denote it as a "new age" or "progressive" music. Adiemus is formed of a many different kinds of melodies, distinctive harmonies and minimalistic repetitions of musical themes, that Jenkins shaped into an expanded choral work. European Choir Video Award  less

This post was originally posted to the Embro Thistle Singers blog.  Isn't it the truth?  Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy.  What is it that is holding you back?  Have you thought that maybe YOU should be the director of t...

Mi y'maleil, a piece for Chanukah for mixed Chorus and piano or chamber orchestra. Promotional synthesized performance and scrolling score video. Seeking live performances. Music: © Copyright 2005 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Grou...  moreMi y'maleil, a piece for Chanukah for mixed Chorus and piano or chamber orchestra. Promotional synthesized performance and scrolling score video. Seeking live performances. Music: © Copyright 2005 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission. The sheet music is available from www.ecspublishing.com --- lute, 2 Oboes, B-flat Clarinet, Bassoon, F Horn, 2 B-flat Trumpets, Timpani, Harp and Strings (4-4-3-2-1). -- The Text English Singing Translation Who can recount Who can recount the troubles that befell us, Who can number them? In every age a champion or scholar Came to give us help. Sh'ma! (0 hear!) In ancient days at this time of year, Maccabee, the fearless soldier, came to our aid. In our time, Israel must unite To be redeemed through action and sacrifice! English singing translation by Stanley M. Hoffman Hebrew Singing Transliteration Mi y' -ma-leil g' -vu-rot Yis-ra-eil, otan mi yim-neh? Hein b'-ch...    less

Performed by Sandnes musikkskoles ungdomskor (SMUK) in a CD recording from 1995 labelled "Feel good med SMUK". The choir has since then changed it's name to today's VIVA, Sandnes Kulturskolekor corresponding to the school changing it's name.

Music by Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959), child of two Jewish Holocaust survivors Words by Abraham (“Abramek”) Koplowicz (b. 1930, Lodz, Poland, d. 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau) Translation by Sarah Lawson and Małgorzata Koraszewska Adapted by Stanley M. Hoffma...  moreMusic by Stanley M. Hoffman (b. 1959), child of two Jewish Holocaust survivors Words by Abraham (“Abramek”) Koplowicz (b. 1930, Lodz, Poland, d. 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau) Translation by Sarah Lawson and Małgorzata Koraszewska Adapted by Stanley M. Hoffman Music: © Copyright 2019 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission. Words: from the Polish poem Wicher (The Gale) by Abraham Koplowicz. Translation by Sarah Lawson and Małgorzata Koraszewska. © Copyright 1993 by Eliezer Grynfeld. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Eliezer Grynfeld. Adapted by permission of Sarah Lawson and Małgorzata Koraszewska. The sheet music is available from the publisher. (800) 647-2117 - www.ecspublishing.com - www.canticledistributing.com Piano/Choral Score: Catalog No. 8740 Additional Full Score: Catalog No. 8740A Full Score and Parts: Rental --- The Gale (Wicher) It moaned and it droned, It howled and it groaned, With a terri...    less

www.wisemanproject.com 1. The Happy Place Music and Text by Kentaro Sato (Ken-P) based on the text by L. C. F. Lactantius (c.250 - c.325)

"The Plans I have for You" sung by the Arkansas Tech Chamber Choir and the Ft. Smith Southside HS Mixed Chorus at the Arkansas All-State Music Convention, 2-16-2012. Ft. Smith HS is conducted by Gaye McClure, and the mass choir here is conducted by Gary ...  more"The Plans I have for You" sung by the Arkansas Tech Chamber Choir and the Ft. Smith Southside HS Mixed Chorus at the Arkansas All-State Music Convention, 2-16-2012. Ft. Smith HS is conducted by Gaye McClure, and the mass choir here is conducted by Gary Morris, of ATU.  

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] A while back I went to a workshop run by the amazing Su Hart who has spent around 25 years working with the Baka people of Central Africa. Living in the ra...

Conductor: Ronell Onate Musica Sacra Choir Festival Phil- Am Life Auditorium September 17, 2011