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blog: Mind the gap between warm up and Song: how to ensure vocal technique gets applied

[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...

blog: Barcarolle Choir Workshop: "The Drama of the Song"

Want to improve your skills? Want to learn about singing? All this while having fun? Then this workshop is for you!   At St Stephen's Church Gloucester Road SW7 4RL, Kensington, LondonBoth groups (Belters and Divas) will work on two or three piec...

blog: Summer soiree success

IT was great to see new faces and welcome our new Friends, president and vice-presidents at the Elgar Chorale's summer get-together.   Truly an evening of wine, women and Song - there were even a few gentlemen and a  mouthwatering feast laid o...

blog: Finding Song information – Chinese whispers, wishful thinking and the oral tradition

[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...

blog: What do words add to music?

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I caught a scene from the movie Spartacus the other day. The character played by Tony Curtis was asked to perform a Song. He then proceeded to speak ...

blog: Learning Songs by ear

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Many people have no idea how a Song is learnt by ear. They assume that written music is a must. But don’t forget that people have been singing (and l...

blog: The sheet music is not the Song!

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A while ago I wrote about an artist who thought that music resides in the musical notation and a musician's job is to realise that notation perfectly. &nb...

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video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oPhL9_L43k

A brilliant moment from our concert in Stirling's Tolbooth Theatre. :-) 5/5/15

blog: Why choirs shouldn’t sing pop Songs

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I used to lead a women’s singing group. We tried a Bob Marley Song once. One of the singers used to say: “If it sounds like the Women’s In...

blog: De profundis by Nancy Telfer for Mixed Choir (SAATBB )

To put a good program together is not easy and sometimes it seems hard to find the perfect Song. With this short recommendation we would like to assist you in this. Nancy Telfer has composed more than three hundred works for orchestra and solo instru...