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blog: Fit the song arrangement to your singers and not the other way round

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Most singers in choirs don’t fit neatly into choral vocal ranges. Yet we try to squeeze them in to our off-the-shelf arrangements, chastising them when ...

blog: Tackling complex song structure without written music

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   the choirs and workshops that I lead are run on the principle that music should be accessible to all. This means that I don’t use written music to te...

blog: How to answer the question: “What note is that?”

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   We’re in the middle of learning a song. People are struggling a bit. then someone asks: “What note is that?”   Photo by ph...

Cadence
group: Cadence

the stage lights fall, the crowd goes quiet, and four harmonious voices rise up and fill the air. the melodies unfurl into something both familiar and fresh. What comes next may be a classic song by Joni Mitchell or Louis Prima. It may be an old bebop st...  more

blog: Don’t be too quick to dismiss songs that aren’t in English

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some people are put off when they come across a song with foreign words. they prefer to sing songs in English. photo by Chell Hill Not only are they missin...

blog: Stop me if you’ve sung this before: learning different versions of songs you already know

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A while back I taught a song wrongly. Not for the first time!     Even though I corrected myself quickly, the original version stuck in peo...

SAY NO! - Trailer
video: SAY NO! - Trailer

Say No ! is an international project for choirs and small musical ensembles. Together we sing ‘No to War’. Our song is a tribute to deserters and war objectors. This hymn is also a call to FleetheFrenzy: say 'No' to the madness of weaponry and war.

blog: ALBION - Camelot

Camelot: the Shining City the Albion Choir (VERY appropriately named, no?) were magnificent in singing some of the song arrangements for the show. they’re a fairly new choir based (handily) in Sheffield, a small but mighty bunch of ridiculous...

The White Rose
video: the White Rose

Every Choir in Cornwall will have its own personal arrangement of this song. It is an iconic piece of music . You sing it at weddings ,funerals,pubs ,clubs.Too your loved ones who are with you now and those who have departed. Thanks to MIke Bryant for the video

Tchaikovsky — None but the Lonely Heart
video: Tchaikovsky — None but the Lonely Heart

At the piano: Dmitry Semenovsky. the lyrics of the song is a translation from Goethe's "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt."