Music by Edward Elgar from "Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf" Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   You work on a song in choir week after week, but slowly things seem to get worse. You worry about getting The Words right, you can’t seem to re...

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Douglas Knight (piano) David Crown (conductor) United Reformed Church, CliTheroe 30 June 2012 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown (conductor) Somerville College Chapel, Oxford 17 June 2010

Originally from: film ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Medley based on: ‘Far over The Misty Mountains Cold’ Lyrics: J. R. R. Tolkien Music: Howard Shore ‘The Song of The Lonely Mountain’ Lyrics: J. R. R. Tolkien Music: Neil Finn, David Donaldson...  moreOriginally from: film ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Medley based on: ‘Far over The Misty Mountains Cold’ Lyrics: J. R. R. Tolkien Music: Howard Shore ‘The Song of The Lonely Mountain’ Lyrics: J. R. R. Tolkien Music: Neil Finn, David Donaldson, David Long Arrangement: Stijn Dierckx Sound: Johan De Cock Performed by The men of 'Universitair Koor Antwerpen' at Their Spring Concert "Game of Tones" on May 13, 2014.  

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown (conductor) Simon Grange (bass) Somerville College Chapel, 6 May 2012 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir Website: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com

"evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from The Book of Genesis 1. Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by The Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth Willer. ...  more"evening morning day" by David Lang. Text from The Book of Genesis 1. Recorded live on March 16, 2015, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by The Radcliffe Choral Society of Harvard University. Director: Beth Willer. The composer writes: "I wanted to make a piece about The creation story but I didn't want to highlight one religion's or culture's narrative over anoTher." "It was important for me to try to find something universal, something present in all stories, or common to all cultures. I hit upon The idea of making a kind of checklist of everything that needed to be created to get The world to this point, without each individual culture's stories or myths or exoticisms. I went back to The first chapter of Genesis, to see what I could get out of my own culture's story, and I stripped away all The descriptions, adjectives, connectors and motivators. All that is left of Genesis in my text are The nouns, leaving a dispassionate list of everything created, in The order in ...    less

A five-star review in The Telegraph for The Howells Requiem from Trinity College Choir and Stephen Layton. “A fluid lyrical gift, an imaginative harmonic spectrum and a sense of occasion … The Trinity College Choir brings clarity of Words and...

Adapted from Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' Suite - Holst set two verses of a poem by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice using part of 'Jupiter'. This arrangement by Paul Ayres www.paulayres.co.uk Conducted by David Crown

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   “In our choir we’re not allowed to use Words in concerts.”   Photo by Kaptain Kobold   Great idea. In principle. But how...