Walker: The Babe of Bethlehem, Humphreys: Exultation, White: The Morning Trumpet - The Waldorf Students Choir, conductor: László Bencze. Recorded on 24. 06. 2011. on The Night of Museums in the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] For the last two weeks I've been sharing a series of 'Frequently asked questions' that I wrote as a result of questionnaires that I used to send round my ...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I love my job, I really do. I just need some space and a bunch of people and we will make beautiful music together. Photo by Heather Jennings &...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Most of the people who come to my singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the time someone told the...
Reading Phoenix Choir perform Bogoroditse Devo, a setting of text taken from the Russian Orthodox All-Night vigil ceremony. The words are a prayer to Mary, Theotokos Virgin, rejoice, (or: Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos) Mary full of grace, The Lord is ... more
It’s pretty amazing how we pigeon-hole people’s talents and skills. All of us do it, most of the time unknowingly. Our new temporary musical Director, for the adults Choir I play piano for, has some amazing warm ups and he loves takin...
This post was orginally published on Embro Thistle Singers blog. When I was 15, I took singing lessons from the nuns at "The Pines". These ladies were well respected for the results they achieved in musical training. Our performance group o...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] We’ve all seen it: a timid, slouched, nervous person approaches the microphone. We expect disaster. They open their mouth and the most amazing, beauti...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I was running a one-day workshop a while back and it seemed to me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seemed uninspired, energy was low, and i...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] A few years ago I spent two weeks travelling through the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I was really looking forward to hearing plenty of tr...
