[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   The Natural Voice Network (NVN) has done a great deal to dispel the myth that you have to be able to read music to be in a choir.   photo by...

The Tabernacle choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells on Temple Square perform Mack Wilberg's arrangeMent of "High on the Mountain Top" by Ebenezer Beesley. Episode 4693. Aired August 25, 2019. Rebroadcasted August 16, 2020, Broadcast number 4744.

Corale Rossini Association - Spring concert 2013 San BartoloMeo Church in Modena (Italy) Serial Singers Gospel choir Voce solista Federica Grazia Piano M° Roberto Penta Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi di Parma Direttore M° Massimo Carpegna

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I don’t know what it’s like in other parts of the world, but here in the UK it’s notoriously difficult to get any kind of review of a con...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Apparently it’s the sumMer break here in the UK. The weather is sunny, choir doesn’t start back until September, kids are off school and ice c...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   When I was much younger I used to think that once you knew everything and were vastly experienced, only then would you becoMe confident.   photo ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Lots of mixed choirs don’t have enough male singers, and many established male voice choirs are not managing to find younger recruits (see my series of ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in their...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I teach songs without using any kind of musical notation. Like other Members of the Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network I believe that singing should...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Last tiMe I wrote about whether it’s better to be over-rehearsed or under-prepared. I talked about people who like to spend a long tiMe working on on...