[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   First I need to fess up: I have a low boredom threshold and always try to squeeze in as many songs as possible. Not always a Good idea!  ...

**Legal baritones/basses! Don't throw away your shot to join us in our milestone 25th season, including songs from Hamilton, Coldplay and Dear Evan Hansen! Are you a legal professional who's looking for a fresh way to connect with your musical interest...  more**Legal baritones/basses! Don't throw away your shot to join us in our milestone 25th season, including songs from Hamilton, Coldplay and Dear Evan Hansen! Are you a legal professional who's looking for a fresh way to connect with your musical interests and like-minded legal eagles while giving back meaningfully to our community? The 80+ voice New York City Bar Chorus ("CBC") will conduct a limited number of auditions (brief, private and low-pressure), with primary focus on baritones, basses and high sopranos, for our fall 2017 cycle. We rehearse about three Tuesday evenings per month, from 7:00 to 8:30 PM, in midtown Manhattan to produce what listeners describe as a professional-quality sound, spanning musical theater, jazz, pop/rock, gospel and classical styles. For example, this fall's repertoire will include sophisticated arrangements of Tony- and Oscar-winning music from Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Wiz and La La Land. The City Bar Chorus changes the public's perception of legal prof...    less

If you’re a singer on your way to a voice lesson, rehearsal, or audition, it’s always Good to do a bit of warming up in the car, because there are few things more annoying to music directors than singers wasting time complaining that they&rsqu...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] If you’re like me, you’re always tempted to add harmonies to the simplest of melodies, whether it’s singing along with others or arranging a...

Why would anyone bother to join a choir? Why would somebody ever want to do that? Most of us will remember some experience singing at school- be it Good or bad- the national anthem, some song for a concert or a play with a song, a teacher strumming a ...

Good MORNING AND HAPPY BLESSED SABBATH TO YOU ALL DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE TOPIC: ONENESS KEY TEXT: And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; ...

If you're a beginner singer and you've just joined a choir, this article is written for you. Maybe you joined the choir because you wanted to test the waters. Maybe you're just too nervous to sing on your own. Or maybe you jsut enjoy singing with like mi...

Dedicated to my Dear cousins Gigi and Raven. Since first singing the medieval song "All and Some" in the mid 1990s, I fell in love with the Middle English and Latin lyrics, and one day I got inspired to create my own setting of this poetic gem. NB: ...  moreDedicated to my Dear cousins Gigi and Raven. Since first singing the medieval song "All and Some" in the mid 1990s, I fell in love with the Middle English and Latin lyrics, and one day I got inspired to create my own setting of this poetic gem. NB: choirs interested in obtaining copies of the score can contact The Leading Note at info@leadingnote.com. I would like to acknowledge the a cappella choir that I sing in, The Stairwell Carollers, and our director Pierre Massie, for their musical inspiration these past 25 years. And with deepest appreciation to my brother Adam Rain and my friend Geneviève Lajoie for their invaluable support throughout my composing journey.  less

Arrangement of an old English folk song for three voices (ATB) The keeper did a-hunting go (run away) and under his cloak he carried a bow (run away my Dear) all for to shoot at a merry little doe among the leaves so green oh. Jackie boy! ...  moreArrangement of an old English folk song for three voices (ATB) The keeper did a-hunting go (run away) and under his cloak he carried a bow (run away my Dear) all for to shoot at a merry little doe among the leaves so green oh. Jackie boy! Master? Sing ye well? Very well! hey down, ho down derry derry down among the leaves so green oh with a hey down down with a ho down down hey down ho down derry derry down among the leaves so-green oh The first doe he shot at and missed the second doe he trimmed he kissed the third doe went where nobody wist among the leaves so green oh Oh run away my Dear!  less

Arrangement by Duncan Saunderson of William Horsley's setting. If a score is desired, please email Duncan at dsdsaunderson [at] googlemail.com There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where our Dear Lord was crucified, Who died to s...  moreArrangement by Duncan Saunderson of William Horsley's setting. If a score is desired, please email Duncan at dsdsaunderson [at] googlemail.com There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where our Dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.....