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Songs from the Southern Harmony
video: Songs from the Southern Harmony

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

blog: Being in a choir FAQs - Part 3

[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 ...

blog: Have voice, will travel

[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 &...

blog: Never tell someone they can’t sing – it is brutal, damaging and untrue

[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...

Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo - Reading Phoenix Choir
video: Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo - Reading Phoenix Choir

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

blog: Our pianist can sing?

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...

blog: 5 Easy Ways to Check Your Singing Voice

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...

blog: Does your singing voice reveal the real you?

[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...

blog: Why feedback is important when teaching and learning songs

[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...

blog: Where is a culture’s music tradition to be found?

[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...