[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   This is a busy concert time for most Choirs.     I thought I'd give an account of a typical concert by one of my community Choirs. This ...

Ottawa Choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform "Pater Noster" by Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob Handl Gallus) (July 3, 1550 -- July 18, 1591), a late Renaissance composer of Slovenian ethnicity. Buy our CDs!!! This version of "Pater Noster" will be avai...  moreOttawa Choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform "Pater Noster" by Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob Handl Gallus) (July 3, 1550 -- July 18, 1591), a late Renaissance composer of Slovenian ethnicity. Buy our CDs!!! This version of "Pater Noster" will be available on our new CD "Cantate Domino" to be released in October 2012. Visit our blog http://www.stairwellcarollers.blogspot.com/ or our website http://www.stairwellcarollers.com/ for updates. Audio: Tom Barnes. Recorded at St. Barnabas Church, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 18th, 2011. Videographer: Zoe Hart. Editing: Pierre Massie  less

Live concert in Kranj, on 2.2.2013. Song is writen by G.Ipavec, Slovenian composer. And arrange by R.Gobec. Soprano: Irma Hostnik, Hana Hribar, Katja Kotar Odlazek, Anita Medvešek Alto: Eva Dobravec, Zala Pavšič, Špela Pavlič Kos, Urša Poglajen and M...  moreLive concert in Kranj, on 2.2.2013. Song is writen by G.Ipavec, Slovenian composer. And arrange by R.Gobec. Soprano: Irma Hostnik, Hana Hribar, Katja Kotar Odlazek, Anita Medvešek Alto: Eva Dobravec, Zala Pavšič, Špela Pavlič Kos, Urša Poglajen and Mateja Potrebuješ Simonič.  

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

RSCM VOICES Choirs The Royal School of Church Music National and Regional Choirs are for those who sing regularly in their church or school and who want to expand their repertoire, learn new skills and be inspired by singing with others in spectacular sp...

Avon and Somerset Constabulary Male Voice Choir performing Walk Away by Matt Munroe. A solo item during a joint concert with Tenby Male Choir. Raising funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association on 6th April 2013, St. Johns Church, Keynsham.

The Bradford Chorale is a leading Bradford Choir. It started life as The James Ashworth Singers giving its first concert in Thornton Parish Church in April 1976. After some years the base moved to the Unitarian Church near St Luke’s Hospital to be more ce...  moreThe Bradford Chorale is a leading Bradford Choir. It started life as The James Ashworth Singers giving its first concert in Thornton Parish Church in April 1976. After some years the base moved to the Unitarian Church near St Luke’s Hospital to be more central for members coming from all parts of Bradford and the surrounding area. In 1979 James Ashworth moved on to projects new and was succeeded by Douglas Robinson who had recently retired as Chorus Master at Covent Garden and who held the post until ill health forced his retirement. During this period the name was changed first to The Ashworth Singers and later to The Bradford Chorale. John Coates took over as Musical Director in 1984 and was followed by Tricia Platts in 1991. Since Tricia’s departure the Chorale has been led by several Musical Directors including Carleton Etherington, Andrew Dibb, Elizabeth Altman, John Griffiths and Christopher Rathbone. Our new Musical Director, Paul Dewhurst took us into the second quarter century of musical life and ...    less

The "Santa Maria" Choir is founded on November 21st, 1993, and arises from a group of singers linked with the Parish of Santa Maria de la Estrella (Coria del Río) who decide to set up a Polyphonic Choir. These young people toget...  moreThe "Santa Maria" Choir is founded on November 21st, 1993, and arises from a group of singers linked with the Parish of Santa Maria de la Estrella (Coria del Río) who decide to set up a Polyphonic Choir. These young people together with some pupils of the newly created Conservatory of Coria (1991), begin to take part in numerous religious acts where they interpret authors' plays like To. Lotti, W.A. Mozart, J.A. García, J.S. Bach, G.F. Haendel, and so on. In 1995 the young Sergio Asián takes charge of the Choir direction leading it to offering its first concert in June 1996. In the following years, from 1997 to 2000, the Choir focuses its training on PLAAYS of the Middle Age and the Rennaisance managing to get an instrumental group that is added tO its name: “Instrumental Chamber and Chapel Santa María Choir” The popularity of the Choir causes its increasing in members from 18 to 35 in a few years, forcing the group to change their musical style so that it leaves the inst...    less

No Excuses! Women’s Choir We are inviting singers and Choirs to join the No Excuses! massed Women's Choir, presented by the School of Hard Knocks and the Big West Festival.   No Excuses! is a song suite created by composers Christina Green a...

during Holy Family Parish's (Kamias, QC) NOTES TO MARY, A music festival in honor of the month of the rosary.. October 27, 2012